The Art of War: A Letter home from CNY Paintball 

Oswego County, NY--The best way to describe paintball is to says it's a combination dodgeball, hide-and-seek, capture the flag and a rock fight.  The game is played here in Central New York and also in 40 countries worldwide.

For a few hours last weekend I joined 10 paintball novices in several spirited contests that ended in exhaustion, whelps and plenty of paint-stained clothing. Here's a collection of the photos I took, when I wasn't being pelted with the brightly-colored gelatin capsules.

These photographs were taken on August 15 with a Nikon CoolPix 900.

--Terry Baker, war correspondent

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