Express Action Sports

Every picture tells a story, doesn’t it? If every picture tells a story, then combining pictures surely must tell a story. You can add words to the story, too. Wouldn’t that be a great way to present your photos, especially those documenting an event with family or friends? It’s easy to do. Many websites, the kind that offer you the opportunity to create online galleries of your photos, also allow you to create photo books. If you want to use this medium to tell a story, its’ easy!

The first thing you need to think about to create a photo book to tell a story is, not surprisingly, what story you want to tell. This may seem obvious, but there is a subtle side to it. Let’s say you want to create photo books of your son’s little league season. Do you include every single photo? Well, you could. But chances are, you took a lot of photos. You don’t need to include them all, do you? Probably you won’t want to. Think about what happened over the course of your son’s little league season, games lost and won, and special moments for your son, such as his best plays.

Select your photos so that they tell the story of his season. It will be even better if you plan the photo book before the season starts. That way, you can make sure you get the photos you need to tell the story, not just the occasional snapshot when you think of it. You will need a few photos to document the general action of each game, and not just the highlights of your son’s play if you want to do this right. You may be wondering why you’d need to tell the story of the whole team, instead of just your son’s contribution. If you think about it the answer is obvious-the photo book you create isn’t just for you, it’s for your son. If you document the whole season well, your son can give copies to his teammates as well. Wouldn’t you rather have a photo book that your son will enjoy, that will enhance his stature amongst his peers, than just a photo book to make you happy?

Probably the best way to create this particular photo book is to adopt the sports yearbook format. That means one entry or chapter per game, with pictures, box scores, standings, and any interesting anecdotes from on and off the field. You may also want to shoot pictures at some of the team’s practices as well. If you do it right you could have a lasting testament to your son’s season, one that both he and you will cherish.

This particular example is based on a sports season but the principles used to create photo books with a narrative apply to any other subject. It could be your vacation, your daughter’s first ballet class, or even giving the dog a bath. All you need to make a story is a beginning, middle and end.

MJ Johnston

In the third quarter sunday. . . when lying on the field with his helmet off. . . Cowboy Andre Gurode was stomped on the head and face by Tennessee Titan Albert Haynesworth. Gurode was cut in two places and required 30 stitches. Haynesworth has since apologized but at the time protested when he was given a 15 yard penalty. . . he slammed his helmet down at an official. . received a second 15 yard penalty and was ejected! This scumbucket should be suspended for the rest of the season. . . should be charged with battery, given jail time, and forced to return his salary for the whole season. It’s high time we hold these steroid freak pompous arrogant cro magnons responsible for their actions! Time to send a message to the other wack jobs in sports as well. Unfortunately Jesse Jackson and the NAACP will make it a race issue and he’ll probably get fined $20,000 and suspended for a game at most!!! Suspend the douchebagg and others who do these things!!! What do you think america!!

As a Titans fan and Univ. of Tennessee fan (where Haynesworth played college ball), this is typical behavior for him. I’ve been watching it for years. Don’t let his apology after the game fool you. He has been a disciplinary problem since he was a freshman at UT. He wouldn’t go to class, he wouldn’t study, he wouldn’t "compensate his tutors", he fought with teammates, argued with coaches, wouldn’t work out, wouldn’t practice hard, wouldn’t play hard, and it’s ALWAYS somebody elses fault. He’s a thug, a punk, and a criminal. I agree, the cops should have led him out in cuffs. Rest assured, if one of us did that to a Cowboys fan in the stands, that’s how we would have exited the game. He should be prosecuted for assault, fined $100,000, and suspended the rest of the year.

I am very bad a sports and I heard that playing video and computer games can help me become more athletic and play better. Does it really help?

You might be able to try and mimic their techniques for like shooting a ball/kicking a ball or something, but the best thing to do would be to practice in real life.

The only thing I could see video games helping in would be strategy like being able to position your teammates and tell them where to go/what to do at what time to make the best play possible, but otherwise I don’t see a huge benefit.

I’m just saying this, but maybe the reason you’re not good at sports is because you think playing them on a video game would make you better at them? I mean I love games, don’t get me wrong, but I also play High School varsity soccer and I know there’s no way in hell I’d be as good as I am without having practiced and played in real life, and I know I wouldn’t even be able to dribble/kick the ball if I attempted to learn from a video game instead of learning from someone who knows how to do it and explain it (like another player/teammate or the coach) and being able to practice it over and over and over in real life.