Good weather, bad game

We've been having nice weather lately - so far, it's been the nicest summer I've spent here in England! Of course by "nice" weather, I mean it's above 70.

Unfortunately, Salford lost their game today. But I got good pictures and it didn't rain so it wasn't a total loss for me, lol.

Happy Birthday Me!

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! Today was a great day - I spent all morning doing a fun photoshoot in the sunshine and then Steve and I went to lunch at the Red Lion, the place that does the awesome carvery.

The photoshoot I was working on was for the posters we're doing as a "countdown" to the new stadium. There's 18 home games lefts in our current stadium so we've decided to use numbers on the backs of the playing shirt to represent how many games are left. You can check out the first image and read more about it here. So this morning I was doing the shoot for 17. I can't reveal it yet, it's top secret!

You may also notice I slightly changed the blog template... that olive green background was starting to look a little more like puke green to me.

Thank You Rain God

So, last night we had a game - don't get excited, we lost. But I got some good pics despite having a bit of a panic before kick off that the rain wasn't going to stop. You see, all day - pretty much all week - the weather here has been nice again (this is our 3rd "nice" phase, thrown inbetween "bad phases" of highs in the 50s). And when I checked the forecast, there was no rain until Sunday. So I left my rain cover for my camera at home, thinking it wasn't going to rain and the lighter I can make my bag, the better.

Well, 2 hours before kick off and it literally starts POURING down. This is unusual for England, normally our rain is just a depressingly slow drizzle. And if that were the case, I could get away with covering my camera with something else besides my rain cover. But a down pour? I can't shoot in that without something designed for it. And by this point, I can't go home and get the cover because the pre-game sponsor shots were already in flow. So for the next hour and a half, the rain would let up but then pour down again and I was anxiously looking out the window hoping it would stop.

Amazingly, because my luck is usually not this good, about a half hour before kick off, the rain stopped and the skies cleared up. PHEW! So here are the photos I got thanks to the rain god who decided to favor me that day (click for larger versions):