One of my good friends at work had been planning to get a bunch of his friends together to play softball in Van Cortlandt Park on the 4th of July, and they wanted me to come out and take pictures of them (no easy trip from Staten Island I can assure you.) I showed up in sandals and shorts to spend a relaxing few hours shooting, and promptly got put in the game to play on one side due to shortness of players. Well that cut out half of my photographing time (plus have you ever tried to run the bases in sandals?)
Before everyone showed up I did grab some nice shots of a few of the early arriver's getting in some batting practice. This shot in particular of my friend Arkis being pitched to by his brother, is actually the kind of shot that will probably hold historic value 50 years from now, if a historian runs across it looking for images of New York the way it use to be in the old days during simpler times. Yes whatever day "today" is, will always appear to be simpler and more relaxed to people in the future, sad though that may be...
