The Games We Play
April 18, 2009
A dangerous game, basketball. I spent six hours in the emergency room this week with my son after he fell on the playground playing basketball. Not a serious injury but a surprising amount of loose gravel from the blacktop had to be tweezered and scrubbed out of his knee and palms.
(Processed in Lightroom 2 using Polaroid 669 Cool preset by Michael Gray of Life in Digital Film.)
April 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Oh no, how worrying! Hope James is ok now. I just saw your lines shot in the Village and really liked it, this one is great too, the processing suits it perfectly.
April 19, 2009 at 6:05 pm
poor little guy! Basketball is dangerous…totally.
April 19, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Ouch! No fun. Hope he’s recovering well.
Nice post work on the photograph, by the way.
April 20, 2009 at 6:15 am
Boys and Emergency Rooms seem to go hand in hand unfortunately. I can imagine all the loose gravel that needed to be removed.
Love the processing on this one; composition as well.
April 22, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Poor lil guy…I can’t imagine having to get all of the gravel out of the knees and palms…makes me queasy just thinking about it. I used to play basketball but it was all indoor in the gymnasium at school. I had jammed fingers…fingernail scratches and was bumped in the head and mouth many of times…funny how you think it isn’t a dangerous sport but you do get injuries in that game!
As for the photo – I loooove how you composed it, how the lighting looks and the DOF!