In my best Paul Harvey voice........And now, for the rest of the story...
The 200-400 was fine and I took off to shoot Sunday morning at the baseball tourney with my one body and 200-400. I was expecting to shoot the last inning of a game that had gotten postponed the night before and then 2 more games. Shot the end of the game (Coastal Carolina vs. North Carolina State) which was quite brief. The looser, NC State, had to come back and play against the United States Naval Academy that afternoon. NC State won the game and would face Coastal Carolina in the later game or games. I believe there is some rule that caused the decision, but either way, they decided to move the Championship game (or games) to the following day. So, back up to the stadium on Monday for one or two games depending on who won the first game as it is a double elimination tournament...Of course, they were calling for rain, so like the intelligent person that I am, I made sure I had the camera's rain gear at the ready...
Unfortunately, I forgot to bring rain gear for the photographer!!! Shot the first game and NC State won, so they were going to have to play the second game with the winner moving on and the looser's season over. They had a bit of rain which delayed the start of the second game, but they finally got going. I managed to find myself an unused, big, heavy duty trash bag that I stuck in my pocket just in case. I think we got to about the 4th inning before it started raining...
ISO 12800, 310mm, f4, 1/1000
Lots of scenes like this between innings until it got even heavier...
ISO 10000, 280mm, f4, 1/1000
So a delay of a couple more hours and they got going yet again...We move forward to the 9th inning - normally the final inning unless the game is tied in which case they play inning by inning until they are no longer tied. NC State was winning 5-3 when the rain started again. When I say it was raining, I'm not talking about a gentle rain or a big thunderstorm...just REALLY heavy rain:
ISO 10000, 400mm, f4, 1/1000
NC State got one out and Coastal Carolina managed to get the bases loaded before the umpires finally decided the rain was a bit too hard and that they would have to stop play until the rain was gone...Shortly after that, they decided that it was going to rain too long and decided that they would start again on Tuesday so I got to head back for Day 3 of my one day assignment !
Day 3 promised to be fairly quick and while it didn't end as I expected, it was fairly quick with no rain...Coastal Carolina managed to score 4 runs in the top of the 9th and NC State couldn't score in the bottom of the 9th, so Coastal won 7-5.
ISO 400, 200mm, f4, 1/4000
And that is why I've been behind on my editing and have yet to look at getting my D4 repaired. Hopefully tomorrow since I am now caught up on things...Oh, for the record, that trash bag, while not very stylish came in quite handy in the rain and kept me mostly dry...