Yankee Stadium (v.2.0)
Opened in 1923, rebuilt in 1974, and about to be torn down and replaced by it's third incarnation (The House That Jeter Built!), Yankee Stadium is near the top of my list of Favorite Places Ever, along with (in no particular order) Banff National Park, Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, Cedar Key, the Whiskey Hill Family Ranch & Animal Park, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum. The Stadium is an amazing enough place when filled to its 57,000 fan capacity, but even more impressive when its nearly empty, with an atmosphere much like a cathedral.
I always wanted to sit in the upper deck directly behind home plate, and Linda (bless her heart) made that dream come true in June 2001. Once again the little Canon A50 did good. Unfortunately, this was years before I took my image archiving seriously, so the original files are gone and all I have are a few which were cropped and processed in Photoshop, stripped of all EXIF information regarding camera settings. Thankfully I didn't apply excessive sharpening and saturation, as I was prone to do back in those days before I realized it how stupid it looked.
I always wanted to sit in the upper deck directly behind home plate, and Linda (bless her heart) made that dream come true in June 2001. Once again the little Canon A50 did good. Unfortunately, this was years before I took my image archiving seriously, so the original files are gone and all I have are a few which were cropped and processed in Photoshop, stripped of all EXIF information regarding camera settings. Thankfully I didn't apply excessive sharpening and saturation, as I was prone to do back in those days before I realized it how stupid it looked.
Canon PowerShot A50 | 1/?? @ f??? ISO ???
Canon PowerShot A50 | 1/?? @ f??? ISO ???
This last image, taken during the top of the 6th inning, was the middle image of a failed attempt to create a pano shot of the stadium - not a great exposure... but it appears to be the only digital image in my archives of the field at Yankee Stadium. How can that be possible???
Canon PowerShot A50 | 1/?? @ f??? ISO ???
posted by Paul @ 12:16 AM
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