As evening shadows blend with a setting sun, a baseball leaves the hand of a pitcher and heads towards a waiting hitter. My shutter stops the ball in its flight just as it enters the notch connecting the pitchers mound to the batters box. It is exactly at this instant that the batter must make a decision. Swing or not? All is suspended in time. I made this image while spending a glorious evening of minor league baseball in Charleston’s Riley Park, home of the Charleston Riverdogs. The park was built in 1997, and seats 6,000 baseball fans. The Riverdogs are a farm team of the major league New York Yankees. They play in the Class A South Atlantic League. I was sitting so close to home plate that my 112mm short telephoto lens could easily encompass this scene. I had to shoot through the wire mesh backstop, which places a unifying texture over the entire frame.