I took the above photo at one of the school’s where the girls had a volleyball game. There was a nice brick wall which I thought would work well for a background. There was a pop machine giving off some light which I thought would work well for the portrait type shots.
Emily has a very unique serve (LOL)!! The above shot is one of my favorites because of the level of intensity it shows. Arms poised. Fingers spread. Knees bent. Eyes on the ball. I’m especially happy that everything in this picture is clear. The ball looks as if it’s just hanging there in midair (LOL). YEA for the new lens!
Above – Waiting for the whistle.Below – Getting ready to smack the ball.
Getting ready to smack it over the net!
I won’t list all of her stats here, but one that we found rather impressive was her number of aces – 62% – which wasn’t too bad for her first year of high school play.Here she’s having a quiet moment before one of the games.
If homeschoolers had cheerleaders, Em would be one of them. More often than not, she has a very positive attitude and she hangs right in there cheering her team on and encouraging the other team mates right up until the very last play. 
In the picture below, I can almost hear her saying, “Let’s go girls. We’ve got this now. Come on. Let’s do it.” 
She’s definitely not one of the girls the coach has to encourage to talk on the court! She’s very good at hollering out for help or letting everyone know she has it. 
This year her main position was setter. I LOVE the picture below. It’s one of the few that I captured with her mid air with the ball actually IN the picture (LOL). I think I can work with the picture before I print it to fix the lighting, but I didn’t want to take time to do that now. The ball isn’t as sharp as I’d like it to be, but overall it’s a decent picture – certainly much better than the ones I used to get with my old lens.
Here are some pictures that show Em in a variety of setter positions. 
She makes it look so easy (LOL).
We weren’t sure how well Em would play coming into high school level play as a sophomore having taken off her freshmen year. She worked very hard at practice and spent hours and hours working on her serves and sets here at home. We found out at the awards banquet this week that she received the MVP award! YEA EM! We are so proud of her stick-to-it-iveness and give-it-all attitude no matter the score!
YAY! Congrats!
*as a side note: our high school volleyball team had cheerleaders… I was a cheerleader and several other teams asked us to cheer for them because we were THAT good (baseball was a bit difficult to figure out cheers for and appropriate times for them LOL)… If you have cheerleaders in your HS sports league, ask them… they might come!
That is AWESOME! Congrats Emily! This brought back memories to when I played basketball in high school.
Those WERE awesome picture, Cynthia. I had to laugh because the boys’ CAP squadron has an Awards Banquet every December – where we never have anything but dessert! 🙂
So cool. What kind of new lens did you get? Congrats to Emily!
Another thing, do you know if HTT has a coupon code right now? They usually do in the month of May.
Thanks
Beth
What great photos!! And congratulations to Em!! It sure sounds like you have a wonderful homeschool athletic program there. I wish we had something like that here. What a blessing! I am so glad she has been able to participate – and she has done so WELL!
Congratulations Emily! Cynthia too for the great photos!!
Jodi
Congratulations to Emily for her diligence! And–wow–she is incredibly photogenic!
Kudos to you also, Cynthia, for the many hours of sitting on hard benches and driving all over creation:)
