Today I watched the Purdue baseball team play yet again. As I have said before this has been a great year to move down here so that I could watch even more Purdue baseball. I admit that I am a bit of a bandwagon Purdue baseball fan. I started watching them play in 2005 so I only saw eight years of the 103 year drought. There have been some close calls in that time, but the trophy remained elusive. That all changed today when Purdue won at least a share of the title in a game that was never in doubt. I wanted to get a picture of the team celebrating so I was a bit late getting onto the field, but I did get there just in time to get this shot. I had just a couple of seconds to raise the camera over my head and hit the shutter button. It just looked like a moment that was too good to be true, and I love that I captured it. I love that the only player that you can see is Eric Charles who is a spark plug on this team. His eyes tell the whole story.
I know that this site gets a lot fewer hits when I post a sports photo as the photo of the day. Today though this had to happen. On a site where I am learning how to capture moments this is definitely a moment worth capturing. Tomorrow I can get back to capturing barns and windmills.
Dave Wegiel Photography 