More bush & country cricket

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More bush & country cricket

Postby norwest on Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:28 pm

A few from yesterday's cricket from around the region.

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Well, it is bush cricket or as we prefer to call it, cricket with character.

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A little more serious, a little less character.

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Have a rest

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Re: More bush & country cricket

Postby biggerry on Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:19 pm

Love the first image, so many great captions one could put against this shot.

I also love the umpy in the second image, now this is cricket as I remember it!

They are all quite good technically too, good focus/sharpness and compos, BG's a bit distracting, but you have to work with whats there.
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Re: More bush & country cricket

Postby norwest on Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:06 pm

biggerry wrote:Love the first image, so many great captions one could put against this shot.

I also love the umpy in the second image, now this is cricket as I remember it!

They are all quite good technically too, good focus/sharpness and compos, BG's a bit distracting, but you have to work with whats there.


One of the teams in the same comp as the first two shots, last week had a big king brown sneak in among the batsmen and scorers ect. in the shelter (out near Pilliga) before being seen. They were saying one of the blokes broke a cricket bat on it giving it a smack, but in saying it had no effect on the snake, they were telling me, " I've never seen a ********* snake get so ********* cranky so ******** fast before in my ****** life."

All in plain speak English, of course and never a dull moment
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Re: More bush & country cricket

Postby biggerry on Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:06 pm

norwest wrote:
biggerry wrote:Love the first image, so many great captions one could put against this shot.

I also love the umpy in the second image, now this is cricket as I remember it!

They are all quite good technically too, good focus/sharpness and compos, BG's a bit distracting, but you have to work with whats there.


One of the teams in the same comp as the first two shots, last week had a big king brown sneak in among the batsmen and scorers ect. in the shelter (out near Pilliga) before being seen. They were saying one of the blokes broke a cricket bat on it giving it a smack, but in saying it had no effect on the snake, they were telling me, " I've never seen a ********* snake get so ********* cranky so ******** fast before in my ****** life."

All in plain speak English, of course and never a dull moment


lol, brown snake 1...cricketers 0, well for awhile anyway! reminds me of some clowns who thought it would be great to belt a croc on the head with a helicopter skid... :roll:
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Re: More bush & country cricket

Postby norwest on Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:22 pm

They eventually chased it into scrub and only smacked with the cricket bat after being startled by it under their chairs. Now that would have made for some good candid shots of facial expressions. From well back, of course. :shock:
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Re: More bush & country cricket

Postby surenj on Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:08 pm

Great timing of those bails!! :cheers:
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Re: More bush & country cricket

Postby zafra52 on Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:48 pm

Yes, I thing the first and second are winners here.
Well done!
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Re: More bush & country cricket

Postby norwest on Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:32 am

Yes, I thing the first and second are winners here.
Well done!


Great timing of those bails!!


Thanks for the comments. The next frame, with a stump getting in on the act.

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Re: More bush & country cricket

Postby PiroStitch on Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:56 am

Lovely timing with the bails in the first pic! Looks like it was a great match
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Re: More bush & country cricket

Postby rookie2 on Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:42 pm

Shane Watson take note - at least this guy played a shot☺
Nice work and great memories of hard wicket bush cricket.
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Re: More bush & country cricket

Postby zafra52 on Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:27 pm

This last instalment although it is very good,
I believe it lacks the dynamism of the first
for it comes across as static - at first.
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