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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)
Noratus cemetery or Noraduz cemetery (Armenian: Նորատուսի գերեզմանատուն) is a medieval cemetery with a large number of early khachkars located in the village of Noratus, Gegharkunik marz near Gavar and Lake Sevan, 90 km north of Yerevan. The cemetery has the largest cluster of khachkars in the republic of Armenia. It is currently the largest surviving cemetery with khachkars following the destruction of the khachkars in Old Julfa, Nakhichevan by the government of Azerbaijan.
The oldest khachkars in the cemetery date back to the late 10th century. During the revival of the khachkar tradition in the 16-17th centuries many khachkars were built under the yoke of the Safavid Empire when oriental influences seeped into Armenian art. Three master carvers from this period carved khachkars in Noraduz, the most notable of whom was Kiram Kazmogh (1551-1610), his contemporaries were Arakel and Meliset.
The cemetery is spread over a seven hectare field containing almost a thousand khachkars each of them depicting unique ornamentation. The majority of the khachkars are covered by moss and lichen. Several tombstones in the cemetery depict carved scenes of weddings and farm life.
(Wikipedia)
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Visiting the famous khachkar field of Noratus wast a must on our to do list when traveling around the Sevan lake; indeed, the place is both magical and spiritual, with history of past centuries that may be almost touched when one strolls through the area...
There were the occasional mini-sunflowers in the wheat fields at Cadwell Farm in Hitchin - Hitchin Lavender.
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Taken with Rolleicord Va using Fujifilm Velvia 100
once upon a runway
Hard to imagine that 70 years ago these four abandoned runways at the North Field --Able, Baker, Charlie and Dog teemed with life and activity as the busiest airport in the world during the World War 11
Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
After a lovely day out with friends, we just got in the car to head home when we stopped at a traffic light and I saw this view from the passenger seat. I quickly rolled down my window and started shooting several shots. The setting sun creates a beautiful light across this corn field.
Marshall Field III bought the property in 1921 and had an estate house built in 1925, one of the largest estates of the Gold Coast mansions.Field named the property "Caumsett", after the Matinecock tribe's original name for the peninsula meaning "place by a sharp rock"
Adjusted the levels to bring out the colour in the field and the sky
My First picture to get into Explore on 23-01-2008
Highest in interestingness #257
It had snowed during the night. Not a heavy fall, but the deepest to lie around West Kilbride for a year. By the time I was driving home it had nearly all gone, leaving just a sheen on the fields surrounding this farm track leading to the A78. I thought it was a lovely range of gloaming pastel colours as the sun went down behind the hills leading to Portencross and the Firth of Clyde. Nikon D300s 1/80 second at f7, ISO200.
This is my 64th "Picture of the Day" in Glasgow's "Herald" newspaper.
At the tail end of the 100th Anniversary season of Wrigley Field (1914-2014). The Cubs ended up losing to the St. Louis Cardinals, but it was a great experience being at a ballpark with that much history.
Wrigley Field. Chicago, Illinois.
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