Running on empty

This evening I went to watch the school's over-16 football tournament. As I'm sure you know, football is the national passion here - everyone either plays or watches (in fact, admitting you don't like football is akin to admitting you've cooked and eaten your parents) so this evening's event was pretty well attended.

Now, despite accusations otherwise, I didn't go there to see sweaty young men running around in shorts - I went there to photograph sweaty young men running around in shorts! At least that was my excuse to try out my new camera.

Things were going fine (I'm told the football was good) and I took something like 300 (yes, three hundred) photos when half way through the final my battery ran out - arrgghhhh!

So now I'm waiting for the battery to recharge (it takes about three and a half hours and I must get a spare) before I can look at the shots, delete the 299 rubbish ones and show you lot the decent one. Oh, and I've arranged to photograph the winners in school on Monday evening.