{"id":37635,"date":"2025-09-30T14:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=37635"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:35:52","slug":"take-a-lot-of-photos-and-pick-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=37635","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTake a lot of photos and pick the best!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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92 football game photos.<\/p><\/div>\n

The advice above came from a sports editor long ago. It is great advice.\u00a0 I took 92 photos at yesterday’s football game. The newspaper only wanted 2 or 3 images. You can see them below.<\/p>\n

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The number of “sports and events” photos our small town weekly newspaper wants from me varies a lot. Sometimes they want a half dozen. On rare occasions they want a dozen or more. Some weeks only one or two. I am one of several volunteer photographers in our little town and we each cover different events and subjects for the paper.<\/p>\n

Sometimes they want an article to go along with the photos. This is the short article I sent to them late last night:<\/p>\n

The Demons Meet the Cardinals<\/em>
\nby Jim Doty, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n

Monday afternoon, Lamoni’s middle school football team went to Leon to play Central Decatur. It was a tough game and Lamoni lost, 32-8. But they did provide all of the excitement late in the 4th quarter. Lamoni’s Rafael Rosario recovered a Cardinal fumble deep in Cardinal territory. Blaze Bruce carried the ball for 11 yards and a Lamoni first down. Rosario carried the ball for another 9 yards. To cap it all off, Carver Cougill threw a pass to Rosario for a Lamoni touchdown. Allister Courtney scored the two point conversion for Lamoni.<\/em><\/p>\n

The photos I sent to the paper follow, along with the captions. The captions for the 2nd and 3rd photo correlate with the article.<\/p>\n

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Cylon Short (#20) wraps up a Cardinal player.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Blaze Bruce (#5) runs for 11 yards and a Lamoni first down.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Rafael Rosario (#9) catches a Carver Cougill pass and runs down the sideline for a Lamoni TD.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The advice above came from a sports editor long ago. It is great advice.\u00a0 I took 92 photos at yesterday’s football game. The newspaper only wanted 2 or 3 images. You can see them below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37635"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37646,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions\/37646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}