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Coors Field, located in Denver, Colorado, is the home field of the National League's Colorado Rockies. It is named for the Coors Brewing Company of Golden, Colorado, which purchased the naming rights to the park prior to its completion in 1995. The Rockies played their first two seasons, 1993 and 1994, in Mile High Stadium before moving to Coors Field, two blocks from Union Station in Denver's Lower Downtown (or LoDo) neighborhood. The park includes 63 luxury suites and 4,500 club seats.
Coors Field has a reputation as a home run-friendly park that, arguably, equals Chicago's venerable Wrigley Field, and earned it the nickname "Coors Canaveral" among critics (a reference to Cape Canaveral, from where NASA launches spacecraft). Denver's dry air tends to dry out baseballs, which makes the balls harder and travel farther. Other factors include the relatively low height of the fences and very limited foul territory area. In an attempt to limit the number of home runs, since 2002 balls have been placed in a humidor before games to keep them from drying excessively.
The Rockies knew that Coors Field would give up a lot of home runs because of its high altitude, and moved the fences farther away. This created a ballpark that not only gives up the most home runs in baseball, but also gives up the most doubles and triples as well.
Coors Field was the first new stadium added in a six year period in which Denver's sports venues were upgraded, along with Pepsi Center and INVESCO Field at Mile High. It was also the first baseball-only National League Park since Dodger Stadium was built in 1962.
As with the other new venues, Coors Field was constructed with accessibility in mind. It sits near Interstate 25 and has direct access to the 20th Street and Park Avenue exits. Nearby Union Station also provides light rail access.
Coors Field was originally planned to be somewhat smaller, seating only 43,800. However, after the Rockies drew almost 4.5 million people in their first season—the most in baseball history—plans were altered during construction, and new seats in the left field upper deck were added. The centerfield bleacher section has its own informal name: "the Rockpile."
While most of the seats in Coors Field are dark green, the seats in the 20th row of the upper deck are purple. This marks the city's one mile elevation point.
Unlike most baseball stadiums, where home plate faces east or northeast (so as to prevent sunsets from disturbing the batter), Coors Field faces due north, resulting in the sun shining in the first-baseman's eyes during sunset. (Wikipedia)
At the other end of the alley where I took Susannah's portrait (stranger #63) is this lovely green coloured wall. Again, I waited a little while for a suitable stranger to come along.
I noticed George, in his wonderful green shirt and matching waistcoat walking along and thought he'd be perfect against the background.
Although in something of a rush, George happily agreed to be part of my project.
George is from Finchley but explained that he works in a cigar shop just along Wardour Street from where I took his portrait.
"I have been a full time musician for 8 years but started to feel a little jaded by it, so I became a cigar salesman at Cigars/Humidor 100 Wardour Street, London"
"Come and have a cigar!"
I politely declined Georges offer and he went on his way.
Thank you George!
This is included in the group 100 strangers:
This is my co-worker Catherine. I've shared a shot of her up on Flickr before (www.flickr.com/photos/samuelrussell/6265211018/in/photost...). Obviously, she's very photogenic!
Anyways I've been doing a bunch of photos at work for people and when I was doing Cat's, she grabbed a cigar from the cigar humidor (few of the founders and long-time employees have some stored at work). I thought it turned out pretty good. Not super happy with the background (that's our parking lot) and the over-exposed bits (open window with morning sunlight coming in) but can't do a lot with that now (well I could but I don't want to put that much time into photoshop).
Shot with my D90 and 85mm f/1.8 with SB600 into Westcott Apollo as the main light.
A simple pleasure - the Cigar. Although it's not so simple to keep the right humidity in the Humidor. I'm keeping a stock of dried up expensive Cigars - at least useful for starting a fire.
It's also an effort to make a simple and elegant design on the label - which I have designed for a Friend.
For Macro Mondays - Simplicity
As someone of Scottish descent I'd been wanting to do a project that would reflect my heritage. Found the empty tartan room box at a miniature club swap meet and the fun began.
At clan gatherings -- Clan Donald is oldest and largest of the Highland families -- a ferocious boar's head leads the procession as the haggis is piped into the dining room. Once I found the massive porcine, things began to fall into place. It would be a room in the hunting lodge of a wealthy Scottish landowner.
Several years ago a San Francisco mini store was selling a furnished dollhouse that had once belonged to the famed collector Narcissa Thorne. (Her rooms are on view in the Chicago Art Museum, the Phoenix Museum of Art and other places.)
Because it didn't sell furnished, the proprietors removed the furniture and accessories and sold them off separately. One steamy summer afternoon, following a dental appointment right across the street, I wandered into the shop and learned, to my dismay, that everything had been sold!
The salesperson brought out all that was left, a few odds and ends in a small cardboard box. The metal table caught my eye because it was the only piece of furniture; everything else was light fixtures, pilasters, columns, etc.
"It came out of the kitchen," he explained, "but you can see the tray doesn't fit into the frame. That's the way we found it so I know it's original."
And that's how I came to own something that once belonged to Mrs. Thorne. My next problem was figuring out how to use it.
When the laird stepped out of the room to answer nature's call, his two playful pups, Jock and Somerled, tipped the tabletop, tossing his eye glasses and brandy snifter to the floor. The decanter will go next if he doesn't get back soon.
The young lady in the silver frame on the mantelpiece is Lillie Langtry, famed English actress known for her beauty. She and his lordship carried on briefly until a member of the royal family stole her away.
I wanted the Laird to be reading something spicy; finally settled on Casanova's "My Life", but was unable to find a copy here in the States. Special thanks to the talented Barbara Brear in South Africa, for creating a copy. Having told her the laird's story, she inscribed the book's flyleaf, "WIth Love Lillie"!
In moments of melancholia his Lordship plays the clarinet. He is, of course, an avid fisherman, golfer and hunter. His days playing cricket are long gone, but he can't part with his favorite bat, while a basket of seashells and an elephant tusk are mementos of military days spent abroad.
SUPPLIERS:
Ashtray with cigar: Monkey Business
Basket: Al Chandronnait
Bellows: Unknown
Boar's Head: Jan's Small World
Boat model: Horchow's catalog
Book: Barbara Brear
Butler's Table: Narcissa Thorne
Chair & ottoman: Fantastic Furniture
Chinese vase: Unknown
Clarinet: Island Crafts
Coal scuttle and shovel: Island Crafts
Cricket bat: Chris Lief
Croquet set: Unknown
Crystal decanter & brandy snifter: Ferenc Albert
Deck of cards: Cottage Industries
Dogs (2): Nivica
Duck head cane: Dale Kendall
Elephant tusk ('30s charm): Unknown
Empire card table: Layne Halliday
Eyeglasses: Unknown
Fire box: Cir-kit
Fire fender: Brooke Tucker
Fishing creel and net: Pat Tyler
Fishing waders: Sylvia Rountree
Flooring: Houseworks
Frame for medals: Farrow Industries
Framed medals: Joan Wion
Glass head cane: Brooks' Mini Crafts
Gold head cane: Dale Kendall
Golf bag & clubs: Sheila Seme
Heriz Oriental rug: Collector's Miniature Rugs
Horse head cane: Handcraft Designs
Humidor & cigars: Buffalo Creek
Man's Romeo slippers: Cheryl Kerfoot
Mantle clock: Town Square
Matches & brass holder: Unknown
Music rack: Bespaq
Pillow: Donna Foucault
Seashells: Mrs. T's Tiny Treasure
Silver frame: Unknown
Silver tray: Geoffrey Bishop
Spittoon: Clare-Bell
Sporting prints: Bob von Vliss
Telescope: Island Crafts
Tray table: Narcissa Thorne
Trophy fish: Unknown
Umbrella stand: Brooks' Mini Crafts
Winchester rifle: Island Crafts
Wooden frames: Mrs. T's Tiny Treasures
February 08th, 2013
Which reminds me, I have a few cigars in the humidor that need to be torched...maybe I'll be spending time out in the "Fortress of Solitude" tomorrow afternoon...
Late night, last-minute, nightstand Project 365! shot...
Project 365! - Day 341
This masked man kindly pointed out that this shop sold "Authentic Cuban cigars". I have to confess, I do enjoy smoking a cigar from time to time and some of the best cigars I've had have been Habanos. I had to explain to this masked man that I didn't need any of these "authentic" cigars and thanked him for calling this to my attention.
I don't want my children to think that smoking is "OK", so I find myself hiding from them when I want light up one of those stinky things that come out of my humidor.
BTW, my favorite cigar to date was a Cuban Partagas Torpedo. Dang, that was good!
Cigars in Humidor / NYC Fine Cigars, New York, NY / Leica D-Lux 4 / Photo: Sila Blume / RAW processing by Dmitry Sokolov
This Cord was one of the most beautiful and striking cars I've ever had the pleasure of seeing in person. It is low and wide, with teardrop shaped bodywork that is mimicked throughout different areas of the car. Beautiful from every angle, it is literally impossible to take a bad photograph of this car.
Built in the high times of refinement and elegance, this car came with everything. Need a cigar? Check the built in humidor in the driver's door. Care for a single malt scotch? That would be in the bar, built into the passenger's door. From the painstaking detail in the interior to the flawless plum pearl paint, this Cord is truly rolling art. I imagine that driving this car was not viewed as a task in the owner's mind, but an occasion to be savored.
Dear Flickr friends, I haven't been around much lately, here's why. Yer Sister & I went away for the weekend last weekend because we both needed a break from work, stress, just because we needed a getaway. We had a great time, took lots of pictures & spent way too much money on bad food and expensive hotel rooms but had a wonderful time. Until we returned home. When we opened the front door (which was still locked) to discover that thieves had entered the house by breaking a window on the back door and gaining entry that way. Upon doing an inventory, we discovered approx. $15,000 (yes, fifteen THOUSAND!!!) worth of personal property, electronics, DVDs, and jewelry missing. Including almost ALL of Yer Sisters jewelry and a diamond ring that has been in Yer Sisters family for generations, my gold university graduation ring which has my degree and graduation year on the sides and my initials engraved on the inside, what possible use is this to any one else? I mean, this was in my Will!!!!! over 100 DVDs, 3 cameras (2 digital, one underwater), a digital picture frame that we haven't even paid for yet, electronics, you know, stereo headphones, ipod, software, flash cards, that sort of thing, years worth of Cuban cigars bought on the island and brought back, in a very expensive burl wood cedar lined 200 cigar humidor (they even took the keys for it from the key cabinet), and lots and LOTS of personal things, some of which we have had since we were children, were gifts from family members or friends, or are simply irreplaceable. In all, almost 2 printed pages of items. They brought linen downstairs to carry it away in! The police are convinced it was someone who has been in the house before. The pawn shop guy figures it was pros (yes, he has a list of stolen stuff). They used latex gloves, we found the empty package in the back yard, which was taken by the police for finger printing! I feel like we are being watched, and that they KNEW we were away immediately when we left. I didn't eat for over 2 days. I lost 6 pounds. I'm here in body, but my mind is a million miles away. We are scared to leave the house. A monitored alarm system including motion sensors is installed now,at great expense but worth every penny for peace of mind, as well as extra locks to prevent any future loss, but the damage has been done. Whatever lowlife scumbags came into our home and invaded our private space have changed our lives forever. I can only hope that they get caught and spend the rest of their pathetic lives behind bars. Sure, insurance money will cover replacement of some of what was stolen, but you can't replace family heirlooms, you can't replace the feeling of sanctuary and security that you used to have in your home. They are gone. I've lived in this house for 20 years. I feel like I have a brick on my chest. The anxiety is overwhelming. Once I recover from the shock and disbelief, I will continue to post again, but I don't know how long that will take. It may be tomorrow, it may be quite a while. I just don't know.
Continuing my late-night risotto series, this one is made with Swiss chard, raisins soaked in white wine, bacon, roasted onions, pinenuts, two different cheeses and some freshly grated nutmeg as a top note to really bring out the pine nut flavor. With or without the rice, this would be an excellent side accompaniment to Thanksgiving turkey. On the notebook are my cigar humidor designs for Richard Nixon and Douglas MacArthur.
In the old days this is what the garages looked like in Gasoline Alley at the Indy Speedway. Comparing this to the modern day crews it's hard to imagine what the older drivers would think if they looked at all the new technolgy.
Garage is in a man's blood. I can safely say that one of my chromosomes is a 3D picture of the perfect garage, with walls full of all kinds of motored shit, tool boxes, a compressor, 5 cars, 5 trucks, 15 motorcycles, 2 boats and a walk in humidor with 10,000 cigars which also doubles as a game room and theater. Upstairs is the gun vault with every kind of weapon from the Civil War to now...of course the bullets are in the basement with all the liquor and wine.
This was a birthday present from Ellen that has been in the humidor for over a year. Today was the day!
Bertram's, a Washington institution for many decades, moved to 920 14th Street, N.W., opposite Franklin Park, in 1946. Bertram's had a special way of making exceptionally good pipes out of Algerian briar. The shop also sold FDR his goose-quill cigarette holders, sold cigars to Churchill and Stalin. MacArthur bought his corncob pipes there. More about the store's history can be found at: bit.ly/wOjJSc
Our Amsterdam Gentleman’s Boat is the superior way to see Amsterdam’s famous waterways.
Ahhhh the finer things in life. Partying is fine, we suppose, but can’t we be more civilized? Where are the fine whiskeys? The cigars? Fortunately here at FunAmsterdam we’re pre...
There is nothing, apart from freshly ground coffee or maybe a drop of Jack Daniels, that comes close to the smell of a humidor full of quality cigars.
strobist info: A single snooted and gridded SB24 camera right behind subject at around 1/2 power fired by PT04. A little shopping.
Part of my 365 which you can follow here www.imageconjurer.com
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Coors Field, located in Denver, Colorado, is the home field of Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies. It is named for the Coors Brewing Company of Golden, Colorado, which purchased the naming rights to the park prior to its completion in 1995. The Rockies played their first two seasons, 1993 and 1994, in Mile High Stadium before moving to Coors Field, two blocks from Union Station in Denver's Lower Downtown (or LoDo) neighborhood. The park includes 63 luxury suites and 4,526 club seats.
Coors Field was the first new stadium added in a six-year period in which Denver's sports venues were upgraded, along with Pepsi Center and INVESCO Field at Mile High. It was also the first baseball-only National League Park since Dodger Stadium was built in 1962.
As with the other new venues, Coors Field was constructed with accessibility in mind. It sits near Interstate 25 and has direct access to the 20th Street and Park Avenue exits. Nearby Union Station also provides light rail access.
Coors Field was originally planned to be somewhat smaller, seating only 43,800. However, after the Rockies drew almost 4.5 million people in their first season at Mile High Stadium - the most in baseball history - the plans were altered during construction, and new seats in the right field upper deck were added.
The center field bleacher section has its own informal name: "The Rockpile." During the 1993 and 1994 seasons when the team played at Mile High Stadium, which was a hybrid football/baseball venue, the Rockpile was located in the south stands, which were in dead center field and very distant from home plate. The same design was incorporated into Coors Field, and is located in deep center field up high. The original Rockpile seats cost a dollar each.
During construction, workers discovered a number of dinosaur fossils throughout the grounds, including a 7-foot-long (2.1 m) 1,000-pound (450 kg) triceratops skull. Because of this, "Jurassic Park" was one of the first names to be considered for the stadium. This later led to the selection of a dinosaur as the Rockies' mascot, "Dinger."
Coors Field was the only major league park with an underground heating system until the construction of Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins.
While most of the seats in Coors Field are dark green, the seats in the 20th row of the upper deck are purple. This marks the city's one mile elevation point.
The Blue Moon Brewery at The Sandlot is a microbrewery/restaurant that is behind the Right Field Stands, with an entrance from Coors Field, and from Blake Street. The brewery is operated by the Coors Brewing Company, and experiments with craft beers on a small scale. Every year, they receive awards at the Great American Beer Festival in many different categories. The popular Blue Moon, a Belgian-Style Wheat beer was invented here, and is now mass produced by Coors. The restaurant is housed in a building that is attached to the stadium. Coors Field has an extensive selection of food items. Selections include sushi, rocky mountain oysters, Rockie dogs, Denver dogs, Tucson dogs, and of course all of the usual ball park items.
Behind the center field wall is a landscape decoration that reflects the typical environment of the Rocky Mountains. This landscape area consists of a waterfall, fountains, and pine trees. After a Rockies home run or win the fountains shoot high into the air.
The park has two large light emitting diode (LED) video displays and one ribbon display in the outfield from Daktronics. The top display, underneath the "Rockies," measures 27 feet high by 47 feet wide (8.1 m x 14.35 m). The second display measure 33 feet high by 73 feet wide and is used to give lineups and statistics and as a scoreboard. The field also contains several Daktronics ribbon displays, totaling approximately 833 feet in length.
Stadium designers speculated early on that Coors Field would give up a lot of home runs. The park is by far the highest in the majors, and designers knew that the low air density at such a high elevation would result in balls traveling further than in other parks. With this in mind, the outfield fences were placed at an unusually far distance from home plate; thus creating one of the largest outfields in baseball today. Because of the large outfield, for many years Coors Field not only gave up the most home runs in baseball, but also gave up the most doubles and triples as well.
In its first decade, the above-average number of home runs earned Coors Field a reputation as the most hitter-friendly park in Major League Baseball, earning the nickname "Coors Canaveral" among critics (a reference to Cape Canaveral, from where NASA launches spacecraft). Prior to the 2002 baseball season, studies determined that it was more the dry air rather than thin air which contributed to the more frequent home runs. It was found that baseballs stored in drier air are harder and therefore more elastic to the impact of the bat. A room-sized humidor was installed in which to store the baseballs, and since its introduction the number of home runs at Coors Field has decreased and is now nearly the same as other parks.
Regardless of ball humidity, elevation is still a factor to the game. The ball does slip easier through the thin air allowing for longer hits. In addition, the curveball tends to curve less with the thin air than at sea level leading to fewer strikeouts and fewer effective pitches for pitchers to work with.
Coors Field twice broke the major league record for home runs hit in a ballpark in one season. The previous record, 248, had been set at the Los Angeles version of Wrigley Field in 1961, its only year for major league ball. In Coors Field's first year, the home run total fell just 7 short of that mark, despite losing 9 games from the home schedule (or one-ninth of the normal 81) due to the strike that had continued from 1994. The next season, 1996, with a full schedule finally, 271 home runs were hit at Coors Field. In 1999, the current major league record was set at 303.
August 9th, 2008 - Saturday
Saturday's @ Bar 41
South Beach socialites all head to Glass at the Forge when the evening agenda calls for a night of upscale lounging. Glass is steeped in Hollywood history, starting off previously as a cigar lounge with private humidors for the likes of Oliver Stone and Bono. The venue was transformed when owner Shareef Malnik teamed up with Miami designer Allison Spear to create an upscale lounge space that packs in a star-studded crowd.
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August 9th, 2008 - Saturday
Saturday's @ Bar 41
South Beach socialites all head to Glass at the Forge when the evening agenda calls for a night of upscale lounging. Glass is steeped in Hollywood history, starting off previously as a cigar lounge with private humidors for the likes of Oliver Stone and Bono. The venue was transformed when owner Shareef Malnik teamed up with Miami designer Allison Spear to create an upscale lounge space that packs in a star-studded crowd.
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August 9th, 2008 - Saturday
Saturday's @ Bar 41
South Beach socialites all head to Glass at the Forge when the evening agenda calls for a night of upscale lounging. Glass is steeped in Hollywood history, starting off previously as a cigar lounge with private humidors for the likes of Oliver Stone and Bono. The venue was transformed when owner Shareef Malnik teamed up with Miami designer Allison Spear to create an upscale lounge space that packs in a star-studded crowd.
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August 9th, 2008 - Saturday
Saturday's @ Bar 41
South Beach socialites all head to Glass at the Forge when the evening agenda calls for a night of upscale lounging. Glass is steeped in Hollywood history, starting off previously as a cigar lounge with private humidors for the likes of Oliver Stone and Bono. The venue was transformed when owner Shareef Malnik teamed up with Miami designer Allison Spear to create an upscale lounge space that packs in a star-studded crowd.
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