Today I did something a little different – I went to a girls lacrosse game at one of the local high schools. 
The team is called Bend United because it is not just representative of one school, but several schools in the district.
I have never seen lacrosse being played before I enjoyed watching these young women play. It was a good game, but unfortunately, Bend United lost to Roseburg.
The game was played at the peak of sunshine so there were a lot of harsh shadows. Plus I had to used my telephoto lens and try get them while they were running using continuous focus. Sports photography was a real challenge for me.
Maralee
Through My Lens 
You captured such a nice actions dear Maralee, I haven’t known this sport game… It was interesting for me. Thank you, with my love, nia
Thanks, Nia. I didn’t know much about lacrosse either but I think it is somewhat like soccer or field hockey but using a hand held net to carry the ball. It was fun to watch.
You did a great job, it’s good to stretch your skills.
Thanks. I’m looking forward to practicing more a other events over the course of the summer.
Interesting change! And well done, no blurry bits at all! 🙂
Thanks. I had to get rid of a number of photos because they were blurry. The continuous focus on my camera works pretty well as long as I have the focus point on the subject. The hard part was keeping the focus point on the subject while she was running.
You are good .. here, taking sport photo’s are a challenge – need high seep on the camera. Did ice skating many years ago with my system Canon and film, out of 100 – 3 came out good. Thank God for memory disc’s. Well done.
Thanks, Viveka. It was a challenge but it was fun. There are a number of other sporting events held here throughout the summer so I will have more changes to practice.
The one thing that stands out out to me in most lacrosse shots are the darn mouth guards. For some reason I hate shooting lacrosse because of that. Always looks like everyone is out of breath. I have seen great shots from lacrosse, but the mouth thing ruins it for me. A fast paced sport that requires quick shooting. nice job
I know what you mean. It certainly takes away from the photographs but for them they’d probably rather have their teeth :-). I understand the ball is fairly heavy and hard.
Thats a good point.
Nice action shots. I agree with Skedazzles… good to stretch your skills.
And I think the mouth guards make them kind of interesting actually.
Hey, that’s me in the first one! These are really cool! Got anymore? I’d love to see them!
So different to the Lilies, but beautiful action captured.