Photos of the week: 4.13.2026

After a Friday nighttime consisting of respective tornado warnings, nan upwind cleared up perfectly for maine and Margo to screen nan remainder of softball’s bid against South Carolina. I showed up to Mizzou Softball Stadium for Saturday’s shutout triumph and Margo was location connected Sunday for nan 4-0 loss. Take a look astatine nan photos of nan week!

We’re starting disconnected a spot dramatically today… For immoderate logic this time I ended up getting photos of thing for illustration 5 different slides – pinch varying occurrence for nan teams. Although we’re not capable to spot Linny Ramsey’s look successful this shot, I really really emotion nan creation pinch her sliding into 2nd while South Carolina’s Karley Shelton prepares to make nan play, and nan shot still being midair really adds different ocular constituent of liking to me. I’m besides loving nan measurement nan precocious day ray is sparkling done nan particulate Ramsey kicked up.

I cognize it’s benignant of a point now for a batch of sports photographers to adhd lens flares, sparkles, aliases various different funky edits to their photos, but I committedness this was conscionable nan sun reflecting disconnected Claire Cahalan’s helmet. Besides, you guys should cognize by now that everything I do successful taking and toning my photos is according to photojournalistic ethics. Beyond that, I besides emotion nan layering and statement created by nan South Carolina subordinate successful nan foreground and nan umpire successful nan background.

Here’s different 1 of nan slides I sewage from this game! What I for illustration astir this photograph speech from nan descent itself is that we tin spot pitcher KG Favors still successful framework and nan shot has conscionable been caught by Karley Shelton. Abby Hay is still sliding backmost into first base, but it’s evidently a spot excessively precocious astatine this point. I person different awesome photograph from this bid of Hay successful a afloat scorpion-like position still sliding backmost into first, but decided I should astir apt spare her that being posted online (this was nan amended photograph anyways).

There’s a batch of things I really for illustration astir this photo. South Carolina’s Kai Byars had conscionable been called retired astatine nan plate, and we tin spot Missouri catcher Stefania Abruscato astir to propulsion nan shot backmost to nan pitcher and proceed nan game, Byars is still getting up from her descent effort and nan umpire is still calling her out. All of these thief make nan photograph much absorbing and I find I don’t mind that it’s backlit by nan sun arsenic overmuch arsenic I mightiness person usually been bothered. I do wish I didn’t trim disconnected nan umpire’s limb and that each 3 were successful much of a highest action infinitesimal arsenic opposed to conscionable nan umpire, who’s facing distant from me, but this is life and that’s not ever really things go. I’m still a large instrumentality of this though, hence why I’ve included it here!

Despite nan truth that this photograph of Margo’s is from betwixt innings, I find it conscionable truthful interesting. It’s cleanable successful position of nan inheritance and I emotion Sophie Smith’s outstretched stance to make nan catch. Kind of for illustration my photograph from earlier, I do wish her mitt wasn’t being covered by her teammate’s connected nan correct broadside of nan frame, but it doesn’t fuss maine capable to time off it retired here.

I sewage immoderate photos from a rundown during Saturday’s game, but this 1 of Margo’s thumps each of excavation retired by far. I’m obsessed pinch nan parallel limb positions by Linny Ramsey and Karley Shelton and nan shapes they create successful nan frame. I besides conscionable deliberation it’s specified a nosy moment, particularly pinch Ramsey looking backmost complete her enarthrosis astatine Shelton arsenic she gets tagged out.

We’ll wrap things up pinch a bully elemental but awesome action moment! This play isn’t thing you tin needfully anticipate, truthful you person to respond successful nan moment. You whitethorn person seen this pinch immoderate of our different shot and softball coverage, but while it’s not that uncommon to get a photograph of a infinitesimal for illustration this, it is reasonably uncommon to get a photograph of nan infinitesimal just before nan drawback is made pinch nan shot still successful nan air. This is simply a awesome changeable by Margo! I besides really for illustration that Madison Uptegrove is successful nan foreground truthful it’s not conscionable an quiet creation pinch only Kayley Lenger making nan catch. It would still beryllium a bully photograph successful that case, but this conscionable makes it little boring, for deficiency of a amended term.

See you adjacent week for much from me!