Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] A night at the ball park: one fan
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Sat Sep 25 19:26:17 2004

Yes, in case you haven't noticed, I go to a LOT of baseball games. I
think 70 this year already. All minor leage.

At minor league games they often toss things into the stands: hot
dogs, stress balls, t-shirts in addition to the usual foul balls and
broken bats that make life in the stands interesting.

This young fan, who had been waiting the whole game for the Coldstone
ice-cream, finally had his moment:

<http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2004-August/Oh-PLEAAAAASE.jpg>

He had one of the best seats in the entire ballpark: the first row
behind the home team's dugout. He was almost as close to the batter as
the pitcher was. (For those of you who don't do baseball that means he
was about 60 feet (or if you need metric that's 18.3 meters.) But what
he wanted was that ice cream.

Missed it by THIS much:

<http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2004-August/Thissss-Much.jpg>

Shot with Fuji Press 800, R8, 100 APO, wide open, about 1/60th or so.
Lighting is tricky outside the field of play and it changes a LOT.

Comments/thoughts/suggestions always welcome!

Adam