Harlem Globetrotters – Huntington Center Toledo

Family Selfie at the Harlem Globetrotters show

A Gift of The Harlem Globetrotters

For the last couple of years, I have made it a mission to stop purchasing so many “things” and to start giving the gift of fun, togetherness and time.  In December of 2015, the Christmas gift to our family was an outing to see the Harlem Globetrotters at the Huntington Center in Toledo, OH.  To date, this is one of the most fun we have had as a family with a Christmas gift!

I’m not a huge sports fan, but even I had a great time at the show.  There is

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Tressie Davis is a blogger and photographer located in Chelsea, MI.

Walk Out Songs – A 2017 Crowd Sourced List

Walk Out Songs were played as the girls went up to batAt the end of this softball season, my daughters 12u softball team had the opportunity to play a game under the lights at UofM Alumni Field, and the girls were asked to choose walk out songs for their turn at bat.  Alex was struggling to think of and choose her song, so I did what any self respecting modern parent would do….I turned to social media to crowd source suggestions.

The suggestions were a great mix of old and new, confident/bold, funny and nostalgic – something to fit every personality from many genres.  I enjoyed the song suggestions so much I decided to share them here.  We won’t go into the side conversations that were started due to my request to keep it “12 year old girl appropriate”, or the fact that someone actually suggested “Let It Go” for the sole purpose of annoying EVERYONE (I might be on board with that, but Alex wasn’t – HA)

Best Walk Out Songs – The List

In the order they were suggested (and yes I included a few questionable suggestions – because hey, that’s what you get when you crowd source), here are the best ideas  for 12u Softball Walk Out Songs

Best Day of My Life  (American Authors)

I Lived  (One Republic)

All Star  (Smash Mouth)

Mama Said Knock You Out  (LL Cool J)

Celebration  (Kool & The Gang)

Dancing Queen  (ABBA)

Roar  (Katy Perry)

Girls Just Want to Have Fun  (Cyndi Lauper)

Hit Me With Your Best Shot  (Pat Benatar)

Jive Talkin  (Bee Gees)

Centerfield  (John Fogerty)

Another One Bites the Dust  (Queen)

The Greatest  (Kenny Rogers)

Enter Sandman (Metallica)

Back In Black  (AC/DC)

Here Comes the Boom  (Nelly)

All I Do Is Win  (DJ Khaled feat. Ludacris)

Not Gonna Blow My Shot  (Hamilton)

Wild Thing  (The Troggs)

Youth Gone Wild  (Skid Row)

American Bad Ass  (Kid Rock)

I was really hoping she would go old school, but ultimately Alex chose All I Do Is Win (DJ Khaled) as her song.

Her team went on to win their game, 9-5.  Go Gold!

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Tressie Davis is a blogger and photographer located in Chelsea, MI.

Softball Banner

This past spring I was asked to create a softball banner for my daughters team.  For the record, I am in general not a photographer who does composites, and had never created a banner like this – it was a little nerve wracking!  The first thing I did was pay a visit to my favorite template designers site – Ashe Design and selected “Stormy Arena” which I thought best fit the photos I had previously taken of the Hurricanes softball team (in addition to matching their name!).

Working with the coach, the team image was selected and I set to work masking it into the template.  Not as easy as it seems like it should be, but there are great tutorials on the Ashe Design site.

Creating a Composite Image

Once my image was added to the template I modified the text, added the girls and coach names, removed raindrops from awkward places, blended small areas that were not quite right and modified the size.  The Ashe Design template had separate layers for everything and it was incredibly easy to modify the composite to get the image EXACTLY how I wanted it by moving components/masking/changing the opacity/etc.  I was SO pleased with the results, and it looked amazing when printed.  The girls loved their banner!!!

Softball Banner - 2015 Hurricanes Fastpitch 10u www.tressiedavisphotography.com

 

My first love as a photographer will always be portraits, but I have to admit that I really had a good time with this.  Also Ashe Design rocks :)=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Tressie Davis is a blogger and photographer located in Chelsea, MI.