Every year-end, Hannah looks forward to her year-end concert where each class of students in her school get onto stage to perform a dance item. The occasion for Hannah’s K1 year occurred a fortnight ago, and our girl was – as before – quite enthusiastic about it in the weeks leading up to her big day. She wanted us to watch her practice and give her critique, and even drew a very helpful map of the dance stage, explaining where she’ll start, where she’ll be at each beat, and the spot she’ll be standing on at the end. Got to say – the map was loads helpful, as a year ago, we spent several seconds hunting for where she was when her class item came, as we were sitting quite far from the stage! We felt that sense of parental pride watching Hannah on stage. Our girl is nothing like her daddy at that age for sure – i.e. no stage fright – and she did her moves with a visible display of confidence, never hesitating, and quite matter-of-fact. Probably all muscle-memory at this point from lots of practice!
The 75-300mm lens did the photographic honors again, and it the focal length at the extreme end was more than adequate for close-up shots of the action. Pity that the maximum aperture was a relatively small f6.7. The speed of the dance moves also meant that a reasonably quick shutter speed was necessary. All in, ISO was driven up to 3200. Sadly too, the pictures this year taken by professional photographers engaged by the school weren’t quite as good as last year’s efforts.
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