Posts Tagged ‘baseball’
After the fireworks, more fireworks
Here’s another baseball panorama; this from a White Sox game last month.
I don’t know if I’ve said it before but I think I enjoy taking panoramas at every park I go to because the Topps baseball cards in the early 1990s I collected had stadium panoramas to fill space if a player was to young to have enough stats too fill up the reverse side of the card.
35th and Shields
Comiskey Park (1910-1990) is now a parking lot. There is a spot that marks where home plate was, but that’s just concrete resembling the original. Truly the only thing left from the old ballpark is this tree and sign.
Image Copyright Ned Mulka July 9, 2010
Kansas City Roadtrip
After a brief 7-hour car ride, my friends (Alex, Brian and Tim) and I arrived at Kauffman Stadium in KC to watch the White Sox against the Royals. Thanks to a College Night promotion we got outfield tickets for only $7. It was disappointing to travel so far for a loss, but there are 162 games a year, so you can’t really sweat one loss in June.
As we got back to Champaign at 5 a.m. the sky starting indicating morning. It’s not fun watching a sunrise when you know you have to shoot an assignment at 9:45 a.m.
For this last image, I took a cue from the Illinois Student Best of Photojournalism, where I learned power lines were in style.
Images Copyright Ned Mulka July 1, 2010
Danville Dans
Wednesday I took a trip with a DI writer for a feature-y piece on the Danville Dans, a college wood bat team a half hour away. They play their home games in a stadium built 1946 by the Brooklyn Dodgers for their farm team. The atmosphere is classic baseball.
The was a great shaft of light beaming through the opening between the roof and the stands, but sure enough just as it started creeping towards home plate, overcast skies rolled in.
Image Copyright Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini, June 23, 2010
I can’t think of a headline and it makes me wonder why I am even posting it
To keep me occupied while most of my friends were moving out for the summer, I shot tennis and baseball. I had a few more liberties when shooting since we only need a photo or two for the paper and now again for the summer I am my own editor.
You have to do the frozen ball pic at least once.
Images Copyright Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini May 14, 2010
