I'm no sports photographer

I suppose it's ok that I'm not a good sports photographer since the only sport I am really fanatical about is lacrosse (which much to my dismay, neither of my children want to play).

Emily had her first basketball game yesterday.

This is how most of the photos come out with some kind of eerie shadow in them. The ball looks kind of cool in this picture and I like the red/white/blue. I'm still not sure if I am just trying to make my camera do things it is not intended to do, but I sure have tried a whole lot of settings on the thing!

So, after the ghostly images of basketball situation, I started taking pictures of other things.

This window looks really cool. Trust me, there is no blue sky - there must be some kind of film on it.
I started thinking hmmm, maybe I should take sign pictures. That or I was ready to go.
Travis' hands. He didn't want his picture taken and I was trying to be all tricky and aim it in his direction without him knowing. I was really happy with the results of my non-effort to frame everything just right.
Here's Travis again waving his hands in front of his face.