Denver Downtown - VII
Showing posts with label Man-made. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Man-made. Show all posts
Sunday
Sunday
Monday
Rusted
Rusted - I know thats what my blogspot was for nearly a month :D. I'm back and am hoping I would not take another break for a long time now :) Its good to be back and I'll visit your blogs soon. See ya.
Thursday
Fenway Park : The Green Monster
The 37.2 ft wall that you see in this shot is the famous "Green Monster" in Fenway Park. It was not so high when it was initially built. But when the ownership went to Tom Yawkey and he was remodelling the ballpark, he saw that the wall was not high enough. One: the ball when hit by the players was going above the wall onto the street and they had to install a net to catch it. The ladder that is exists till today, was to help someone to pick the balls later :) Two: People were able to watch the game from their rooftops for free!
So, he decided to raise the wall to its current height. It was painted green in 1947. This particular green is patented and is accessible only by 2 persons in the world.
270 seats have been added on top of the Green Monster. These are the fastest selling tickets in the park. They are sold on lottery and who ever wins the lottery gets 4 tickets and he can split the four tickets and watch multiple games or watch one game with 3 others..
We went up there, the view is wonderful. Fans have had the chance to catch the ball or sometimes fans've broken their noses too because of a home run :(
The CITGO sign that you can see outside the park, is a major landmark in Boston Metro and can be seen from anywhere around.
Wednesday
Fenway Park : From the Luxury Box
This is the view from the Luxury Box. The distance between the Pitcher and the Hitter is closer than we had imagined or saw on TV. It is 60 1/2 ft.
Being Cricket fans since childhood, we immediately compared the distance with the length of the pitch in Cricket which is 22 yards (66 ft) :-)
This was laid newly immediately after the Red Sox won the World Series last year with new sprinklers et al. The old one was completely dug out and relaid.
When the luxury box was built and spectators sat there to watch the game, it was the best silent movie they'd ever seen. Sitting inside the air-conditioned glass cabin with cushioned seats and attached bar, watching the game was not so enjoyable. The glass is baseball proof, about 1.5 inches thick so they did not hear anything. Next, the owners tried various things like connecting speakers to the microphones set up in various places in the field, but the spectators could hear the players swearing! Then they tried editing that and relaying it with 4 secs latency, didn't work, now they are hearing the same thing that we would hear on TV.
Tuesday
Fenway Park : From the Grand Stand
Last weekend, we went on a tour of the Boston Red Sox stadium - Fenway Park. It was wonderful. This is the first pic, I took as soon as we followed the tour guide into the stadium into the Grand Stand.
Fenway Park is the oldest Baseball stadium in the US, it is also very small. It was opened for use on 20 April 1912 but did not make the headlines then because of the tragic sinking of The Titanic that took place on 12 April 1912.
I'll post more shots of Fenway Park this week. Enjoy.
For those, who are not aware - Red Sox are the World Series Champions of 2004.
Thursday
Wearing out...
I experimented with Selective Desaturation in this picture. Kams had written about it in a forum elsewhere and I wanted to try it out. :)
Tuesday
Missing Blocks..
A while ago I had posted Checked & Striped. This is the same bench. Which is better?
Monday
Wednesday
Sunday
Barred !
There is a Children's Mela (Children's Carnival) today for the Indian kids (aged 5-15) in Boston area. I am conducting the India Quiz for them. I'm so excited, its going to be a lot of fun. I'll be gone until evening. I'll visit all your blogs today evening.
Have a great Sunday everyone.
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