Boerne High School Softball vs Wimberly

Softball is always fun to shoot, the field is small and the Boerne High School field offers great access...if you can shoot around the coaching staff. ;-)

Lots of great pre-game portraits and some nice action as the Boerne High School Lady Greyhounds took on Wimberley in Senior Night play.

I'm alway mesmerized by the fast-pitch delivery and control the ladies can put on that big bright ball.

Plays like this make the game even more enticing for a photographer.

As always you can find the rest of the game gallery at ralphmawyerphotography.com.

Boerne-Champion Champion Baseball vs New Braunfels Cougars

Finally had a chance to shoot some Boerne-Champion baseball.  Good weather and good light for most of the game.  With two seniors graduating this year, most of the Champion team is composed of juniors and sophomores.  This was a make-or-break game for a playoff spot for both the Chargers and the New Braunfels Cougars.  Lots of big hits and big catches by both teams with Champion getting the win.  As usual I was mostly focused on great portraits and being in the right place for action shots, like this one:

You can find the rest of the gallery at ralphmawyerphotography.com.

Marcus Cunningham - Boerne, Texas

Just got back from vacation and was going to post some things, but I think it will wait...

I didn't know Marcus or the other boys, but I was lucky enough to know Shelly Beck, who was mentoring Marcus and asked me to shoot these photos at a Boerne High School football game last season. Sometimes a job turns out to be more than just a football game...

Marcus Cunningham - (RIP 11.30.1993 - 4.12.2010)

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Baseball - TMI Panthers vs San Marcos Baptist Academy

Classic, beautiful spring day for baseball.  As usual the lighting is pretty harsh at noon, but TMI, The Episcopal School of Texas, has a beautiful field.  Lots of action made for a great day as TMI took on the San Marcos Baptist Academy.  Lots more photos at Ralph Mawyer Photography.

Boerne High School Baseball vs Pawhuska, Oklahoma Huskies

I guess you could call it a dog fight with the Boerne Greyhounds taking on the Pawhuska, Oklahoma Huskies Friday afternoon.  The Huskies were on their spring break road trip to South Texas and I finally had a change to shoot the Greyhounds in daylight.  Lots of action with more photos at www.ralphmawyerphotography.com.

Spent a beautiful day in Austin at a PhotoShelter workshop on photography as a business.  One of the high points was watching Houston pro Robert Seale setup and shoot a couple of different lighting sets for a new musician who just moved to Austin from San Francisco.  Somebody forget to tell her what August is going to be like down here. ;-)

Here's a gallery of my snapshots, all of which show why you really need to be using strobes or speedlights, even when doing outdoor portraits. ;-)


PhotoShelter - Business Workshop - Austin - Images by Ralph Mawyer

San Antonio Regional Marching Auxiliaries (Boerne, Texas)

Wow, what a day. Saturday, 27 Feb 2010, the Boerne-Champion High School Charms Dance organization hosted 40+ teams at the San Antonio Regional Marching Auxiliaries at Champion High School in Boerne, Texas.  It was their second year and the success of the first year must have gotten around as almost twice as many teams showed up, including one from California.

Me? I was up at 5:30am for setup at the gym.  Starting at 9am, and for the next ten hours, I shot killer dance routines and that was just in one of two gyms. I was able to use a Nikon SB-900 speedlight, but was limited in where I could place it(and me), so still lots of post-processing to do....on 3500 images!  With more than three days notice definitely think lighting and workflow could be improved with some Radio Poppers and/or two to four AlienBees or more SB-900s. ;-)

As always you can see everything at ralphmawyerphotography.com,.

Even after a day of dancing the energy in the auditorium was undiminished as reflected in this dancer doing a flip over a trusting group of friends...twice!  The second time he cleared 10 bodies....and stuck the landing.