Our family took off for a weekend at Spring Training in Phoenix. My brother Matt was hired by the A's magazine publisher to do a piece on Alan Embree, a veteran pitcher now with the A's. Hoping to get some shots of Embree for the magazine, my brother got me a press pass for the game. I so wanted to shoot with a 600 f4 lens like the big boys but somehow coming up with $9000 for it seemed a little impossible at the moment.