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Somei-yoshino, IAI stadium Nihondaira
ソメイヨシノ, IAIスタジアム日本平
Cherry blossoms is surrounding this stadium.
The bokeh of yesterday is cherry blossoms of the shadow (left).
日本平スタジアムの道路沿いの桜です。
昨日の前ボケは左側の日陰の桜です。
Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka city, Japan
The TC&W Saint Paul Turn rolls through the Warehouse District of Minneapolis with three GP38-2s screaming and thrashing.
Ibrox Stadium, the home of the Famous Glasgow Rangers with the statue of Walter Smith in the foreground.
Taken from an open topped tour bus.
I would have loved to get off and relive the many memories of cheering on the team from the terraces.
The Panathenaic Stadium in the Pangrati area of Athens. 8-shot panorama stitched in Adobe Lightroom.
From Wikipedia:
A stadium was built on the site of a simple racecourse by the Athenian statesman Lykourgos (Lycurgus) c. 330 BC, primarily for the Panathenaic Games. It was rebuilt in marble by Herodes Atticus, an Athenian Roman senator, by 144 AD and had a capacity of 50,000 seats. After the rise of Christianity in the 4th century it was largely abandoned. The stadium was excavated in 1869 and hosted the Zappas Olympics in 1870 and 1875. After being refurbished, it hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the first modern Olympics in 1896 and was the venue for 4 of the 9 contested sports. It was used for various purposes in the 20th century and was once again used as an Olympic venue in 2004. It is the finishing point for the annual Athens Classic Marathon. It is also the last venue in Greece from where the Olympic flame handover ceremony to the host nation takes place.
~Explore Feb. 19, 2017~
Built for the 1936 Summer Olympics. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they used the Olympic Games in 1936 for their nefarious propaganda purposes. After the reunification, the people from Berlin debated the destiny of the Olympic Stadium because of the legacy it represented for Germany. Some wanted to tear the stadium down and build a new one from scratch, while others favoured letting it slowly crumble "like the Colosseum in Rome". Finally, it was decided to renovate the Olympic Stadium. These days it is part of the Olympic Park and always hosts the finals of the German Bundesliga.
This capture looked okay in color, but I opted for b/w because I wanted to bring out the dark side - hoping that the Olympic Stadium will never again be misused for propaganda.
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