Posts Tagged ‘stadiums’
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.
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
National Past-time
This week I’m in Washington DC visiting my sister. I was going to compile theses post at the end of the week, but I got a little free time, so I’m throwing up a teaser now.
Funny that the Nats have won 8 in a row, yet still have the worst record in baseball. The stadium is the new cookie cutter, it feels just like Citizens Bank Park in Philidelphia and PNC Park in Pittsburgh. Oriole Park at Camden Yards on the other hand is a unique stadium. From our $48 seats we got for free from some nice Baltimorians/Baltimorts, to the welcoming and friendly ushers and fans, the whole place felt like we were regulars. Then it started raining, and we ran as fast as we could to the car.
Images Copyright Ned Mulka, August 10, 2009
