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Foto Friday: The archives

February 10, 2012

My external hard drive is starting to fill up. That pretty much means I need to start shifting some things and deleting, or I might not have room for a lot of photos.

I have three external hard drives, but two of them are full and the third, which is a terabyte, doesn’t have much left. I know there’s a lot of waste on all three of them. So, over the next few weeks, it’s my hope to really clear a lot of space. In the end, I’d like to have the TB drive be all photos only — so I can get an online backup service as well.

Anyway, as I do that, I got peeking at some older photos. And that got me interested in looking at some older photos on Flickr, too. So, in this post, I am going to share some of my favorite (or not so favorite) photos from the Flickr archives. Things are going to be random. I am going to hit a few random pages and snag a photo of those pages and share them here.

I’m hoping to head out and shoot some fireworks tonight, so if things come out as I hope, I’ll look to share what I did and such with the images next Friday.

Page 40

Ahhh, this past September. We got some unseasonably warm weather and this page was basically filled with sports photos — a softball tournament and some flag football. Here’s one of those shots.

Foul ball!

 Page 67

I had been catching up on posting some images, including from my trip to Ireland in 2010. Those photos were on this page.

Good advice!

Page 94

From April of last year, my trip to the Washington DC area and Arlington National Cemetery.

The unknown plots are extremely moving. There are far too many.

Page 123

From November 2010. One of my favorite disc golf photos.

My faithful buzzz.

Page 149

Ahhh, the Ireland trip. This wasn’t long after getting back. This was a shot I took in Howth.

My mother and brothers at Howth Harbor.

Page 165

The Oneonta Outlaws. Love some of the shots on this page.

Pitch coming in.

Page 187

Out on a photo day with a former co-worker. Watershed property…

Stay off!

Page 204

This big snowstorm at the end of February 2010 shut down local schools and even the local college. A great day to be out taking photos!

Snow!

Page 235

Geno’s Steaks, at night. December, 2008.

All lit up!

Page 270 (last page for now)

Downtown Montreal at night. I took this photo from Mont Royal in August of 2007.

Montreal!

I hope you enjoyed a slight trip through the archives with me. I’m sure as I get going through these external drives, I’ll be sharing more — and uploading a lot more to Flickr. I want to get a lot more of my photos on Flickr and put them together as sets. That way, they are there for all to see!

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Out racing for aces

November 1, 2011

One of the discs from the Ace Race.

Our area’s disc golf group — DisCap — held one of Discraft’s Ace Race tournaments this past Saturday.

I couldn’t participate in it last year, so I was excited to be able to do it this year. And, thankfully, Mother Nature held off the freak snowstorm until after the tournament was long over!

Anyway, the idea of an Ace Race is simple. For your entry fee, you get two Discraft prototype discs (they aren’t named or on the market yet). The plastics are different, so without working with them, you don’t know what they might or might not do. You also got a mini marker disc, a bag and a sticker.

Not bad for $25.

Tees are shortened to give people a legitamate chance at an ace. You get two shots per hole (one with each disc). You then count aces or hit metal (of the basket) and move on.

At the end, the person with the most aces/metal hit is the winner and gets a nice (and bigger) Discraft bag with eight new discs.

Pretty sweet, right?

This year’s DisCap version of the event was held at  Joralemon Park in Coeymans. This isn’t my favorite course out there (a lot of people love it… I just find it a little too draining when you hit the woods holes. They never seem to end). This course is essentially a 28-hole course (there are two hole No. 12s), but they added two baskets to make it a 30-hole layout for the Ace Race.

One of the best parts was that it was quite laid back, so groups were bigger. I think we had the biggest as the group of us from our local area were paired together — seven of us. I had a blast with the group (Chuck, Dave, Tim, Steve, Jake and Jamie). We had fun, though nobody in our group got any aces. We did have a few metal hits though.

Alas, for my first one, I didn’t get any metal. Ah well, it was still a whole heap of fun.

Our group had four metal hits. That ratio is kind of crazy, if you think about it. With two shots per hole, that’s 60 shots per person. Multiply that by seven and we had a total of 420 chances.

And we hit metal four times.

If we were playing baseball, that wouldn’t be Hall of Fame numbers, that’s for sure. That’s a batting average of .009.

Yikes!

Either way, it was still a good time. We came close several times, but discs sailed just past the basket. And, our group was a whole heap of fun.

Here is from one hole, where I thought for sure someone would make a run at it:

Jake had the best chance at an ace, missing by mere inches. (Though it should be noted that when trying out the disc before the round started, Chuck aced one of the holes).

This video shows Chuck just missing me and Jake clanging the basket.

In fact, if you listen closely when Chuck comes up he says “I’m going to smack P.J. in the freakin’ head with this shot.”

Close, Chuck, close.

So, checking the final numbers at the DisCap Ace Race, there were 11 aces and 64 metals. The tournament featured 62 players, so if you add the aces and metals together, there’s 75 “hits.”  In total, there were 3,720 chances. Going, again, in baseball terms, we hit .020. Not Hall of Fame material, that’s for sure.

In the end, though, it all worked out. Nobody had more than two aces and the top “metal” guy came in with four.

I’ll give props to Jeff and Kenji — the two DisCap guys who did the bulk of the work on this setup — as they ran an excellent show. It was a cool experience and I’ll look forward to participating again next year.

My photos from the Ace Race on Flickr.

Videos can be seen on my YouTube channel. (I uploaded 10 from our group).

Feel free to leave a comment, or e-mail P.J. at hoohaablog [at] gmail.com. Also, please “Like” HooHaa Blog on Facebook by clicking the button on the right side of the page!

Filed Under: Disc golf, Events, My world, Photography Tagged With: ace race, disc golf, disc golf ace race, discap, discap ace race, discraft, discraft ace race, discs, Joralemon Park, Joralemon Park disc golf course

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