People are strange

Just got back from Enosburg shooting basketball team photos and saw this little gem in my email inbox.

Before you read it, bear in mind I don't know this person and have never communicated with them.

That said, he's obviously thinks I'm a bad person for selling photos.

Oh well ... can't please 'em all I guess.

Here's the email -- hope it makes you laugh as much as it made me laugh!

On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:07 PM, (someone I don't know) wrote:

Right clicking on a photo is not the only way to save them. Why the hell would anyone buy pictures of family with the technology we have today? I'm sure everyone that wants pictures brings their own camera and takes them for free. I know I did, and the pictures have a quality that is equal to the pictures you took. Also, the most i have ever paid to print a digital photo (4 x 6)  is $0.26, and thats for a single photo, if I were to print more than one, it would be even cheaper than that! I think it's cool that you take the pictures and post them for family and friends to look at, but selling them is simply taking advantage.

Wowsers! He busted me!

Yep, I'm a millionaire and I made it all taking sports photos and selling them for $2.99 each!

Oh well, nothing left to do but keep perpetuating the myth and therefore I'm off to go rip off the fine MVU and Milton hockey parents by taking photos of their kids with the knowledge they all will soon be overpaying for them, adding to my huge stack.

I'm rich, rich I tellsya! RICH!

(Insert sinister laugh here!)

Geeeesh.

Top local sports team of 2009?

In case you haven't noticed, I'm mighty partial to polls.

(For those of you counting, National Lampoon's Christmas is the leader in the favorite Christmas movie poll and The Grinch and Rudolph are tied for the favorite Christmas special poll - you can still vote until Christmas Eve.)

But I digress ...

For my next poll I need a little help in selecting the choices.

The topic is top local sports team of 2009.

The only criteria is the team must be based in northwestern Vermont (no team further south than Milton or further east than Fairfax).

Here's are the teams I can come up with right off the top of my bald little head - in no particular order.

Milton girls soccer - Division II champs

Missisquoi boys soccer - Division II runners-up

BFA-Fairfax girls soccer - Division III runners-up

Milton Broncos 7/8 Youth Football - NVYFL runners-up

BFA-Fairfax boys basketball - Division III runners-up

BFA-St. Albans girls basketball - Division I runners-up

Missisquoi girls hockey - Division II runners-up

BFA-Fairfax softball - Division III runners-up

The plan is to post the poll on Monday, so if I have missed your favorite team or if you have another suggestion, please add your comments below and give me a good reason or two to put that team in the poll.

The best laid plans ...

For those looking for a fresh post tonight, I'm going to have to defer.

I occassionally work shifts designing sports pages at the Free Press and forgot that tonight was one of those shifts.

I might post after I get home around 1:30 a.m., but I may wait until later in the day.

For those who care about such things, I did upload the BFA girls hockey and MVU-Enosburg boys basketball photos, including a few JV shots.

My next assignment is Wednesday night when I cover MVU-Milton boys hockey for the Messenger.

Thanks for checking in!

Hornets and T-Birds and Comets, oh my!

The day didn't quite play out as expected, but then again they seldom do.

I was able to catch the first quarter of the MVU-Enosburg boys basketball game, but only after watching the overtime of a very exciting JV game. MVU, under substitute coach John Lumsden, saw his team fall behind by 15 early before rallying to win in OT.

The lengthy game meant that instead of getting to the start of the BFA-St. Albans-Hanover, N.H. girls hockey game at 3, I was still at the gym until 3:30.

However, I was able to get over to the rink in time to see the second period.

But I wasn't able to see much of the third because I was called away to attend to a flat tire on my wife's van. OK, I didn't actually attend to matter aside from venturing out in between periods to pick up my child while my wife was being rescued by some guardian angels who actually know how to change a tire.

Thanks guys, whomever you are!

I'll be taking a little break from the blog updates the next couple of days.

I'm shooting family and senior portraits at my studio tomorrow before working a desk shift at the Freeps. I'll be back at the Freeps again on Monday. In between, I'll try to get the photos from Friday and Saturday on the web and should be back blogging on Tuesday.

Thanks again to everyone who has taken the time to vote in the polls and visit the blog.

There have been over 100 unique visits to this blog this week - not earthshattering, but given the infrequency of my posts of late, a very nice response.

If you want to know when the blog is updated, friend me (Shawn Corrow) on Facebook or follow me on Twitter (scorrow).

Later

Poll: What's your favorite Christmas movie?

Sticking with the holiday theme, I'm curious to know what is your favorite Christmas movie.

Mine is a Christmas Story.

The true test of a great movie is quotability.

It doesn't get any better than "Fuuuuuuuuuuddddddge! Only I didn't say fudge."

Although "It was ... soap ... poisioning." comes in a close second.