Canberra Pictorial

A great initiative from the Athletics ACT to organise the High Noon Meets every months during the freezing winter season at the AIS Athletics Field. It was in particular interesting to see up-coming young guns to take up established elite athletes as well as veterans. This truly shows the spirits of competitive athletics in its paramount form.

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ACTAS Women Soccer team wins the match 2-1 against the Under-14 Girl National Team at the AIS Soccer Field.

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Canberra National taking on Manly Sea Eagles at the AIS Training Hall on Saturday. Three WNBL representatives in the match. Hannah Bowley from the Nationals, Sally Potocki and Erin Lorenzini from the Manly side. Very entertaining match with the WNBL duo from Manly side posted 36 points for the visitor. Hannah representing the Nationals topped scoring department for the home side with 21 points, 15 rebounds, and 3 blocks. Potocki apparently has injury concerns in the third quarter and was off to the bench for a short while. Manly closed in the deficit to only four points in final quarter with just 60 seconds to go. The Nationals held on the lead and won the match 71-66.

First match to shoot with the Nikon D3 + 70-200mm. Turned out that the Canon combo I used to have could offer slight advantage in Image Quality; whilst the ISO ability in D3 wins off. All images where shoot at 1/250 @ F3.2 on ISO 320 to 400 strobed. Ambient condition at the court is 1/250 F2.8 ISO 6400. Another thing is, the Nikon combo doesn’t seem to offer as comfortable handle when shooting vertical on the 70-200.

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With most of the ACTAS baseball players on board, the ACT State team competing in the 2009 School Sports Australia Baseball Championship tournament at the Narrabundah Baseball Field has finished in great form with a Bronze medal at home.

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LifeCycle Charity Bike Ride is a charity event organised to fund raise for LifeLine’s suicide prevention program. With the ride in May, riders are riding in a much more comfortable weather condition than in 2007 (wet, cross-wind and everything last time). 50 or so riders started in Campbelltown and another 50 or 60 of them started in Goulburn for the ride. It was all for a great cause and congratulate to all riders who part-take in the event.

PS, it was Mark on the trailer.

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