Baseball in the Sun
I'm running behind, so I'm posting an abnormably high number of pictures today.
There it is, folks. Dodger Stadium as seen from the upper deck from roughly behind home plate. It looks like the kind of place where Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin would watch a game, looking all Camelot-'60s cool while catching foul balls and sipping Manhattans. This isn't where we sat. Our seats were at about this level, but over in left field near third base. That's about where we sit whenever we go to White Sox games.
Here, you can see a lot of the things I like about Dodger Stadium. I like that there's no wall or screen or anything blocking the view of the mountains past center field. I like that it has that view instead of, say, an interstate highway or a house with "Budweiser" painted on the roof. I don't necessarily like that it sits in the middle of a really big parking lot, because it's Los Angeles and everybody drives here, but if it didn't sit in a parking lot, you wouldn't have that view. I like that the big screens are octagonal instead of rectangles, as if this is a baseball stadium in Battlestar Galactica world. You can't really see it from here in this picture, but I like that there's a little roof over the outfield bleachers, and that it zig-zags. I like that everything's blue. I like sitting in the shade of the little roof over the third base side of the upper deck with the sun someplace behind me, watching the golden light hit the little hills around Chavez Ravine and the Verdugo Mountains beyond.
I don't know that I like the angles of the place. You'll notice how in the outfield, the stands run parallel to the baselines for about five seconds, then move out away from the baselines to form a more V-like shape. This puts the stands at kind of a weird angle relative to the baselines. The ballpark I know best, the unfortunately-named Guaranteed Low Rate Field (formerly U.S. Cellular Field, or the "Cell" ... stupid corporate naming deals) has the stands running in lines much closer to parallel with the baselines. I feel like watching the game is more comfortable when everything's closer to parallel. But then, there aren't any palm trees at the Cell.
Editor's Note: The light at Dodger Stadium made it really hard to photograph, as there was a huge contrast between the shadow and the light. In a lot of my shots, anything in sunlight was just blown out.
Baseball in the Sun
I'm running behind, so I'm posting an abnormably high number of pictures today.
There it is, folks. Dodger Stadium as seen from the upper deck from roughly behind home plate. It looks like the kind of place where Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin would watch a game, looking all Camelot-'60s cool while catching foul balls and sipping Manhattans. This isn't where we sat. Our seats were at about this level, but over in left field near third base. That's about where we sit whenever we go to White Sox games.
Here, you can see a lot of the things I like about Dodger Stadium. I like that there's no wall or screen or anything blocking the view of the mountains past center field. I like that it has that view instead of, say, an interstate highway or a house with "Budweiser" painted on the roof. I don't necessarily like that it sits in the middle of a really big parking lot, because it's Los Angeles and everybody drives here, but if it didn't sit in a parking lot, you wouldn't have that view. I like that the big screens are octagonal instead of rectangles, as if this is a baseball stadium in Battlestar Galactica world. You can't really see it from here in this picture, but I like that there's a little roof over the outfield bleachers, and that it zig-zags. I like that everything's blue. I like sitting in the shade of the little roof over the third base side of the upper deck with the sun someplace behind me, watching the golden light hit the little hills around Chavez Ravine and the Verdugo Mountains beyond.
I don't know that I like the angles of the place. You'll notice how in the outfield, the stands run parallel to the baselines for about five seconds, then move out away from the baselines to form a more V-like shape. This puts the stands at kind of a weird angle relative to the baselines. The ballpark I know best, the unfortunately-named Guaranteed Low Rate Field (formerly U.S. Cellular Field, or the "Cell" ... stupid corporate naming deals) has the stands running in lines much closer to parallel with the baselines. I feel like watching the game is more comfortable when everything's closer to parallel. But then, there aren't any palm trees at the Cell.
Editor's Note: The light at Dodger Stadium made it really hard to photograph, as there was a huge contrast between the shadow and the light. In a lot of my shots, anything in sunlight was just blown out.