Today I come to you with what will hopefully be one of three posts this week. After my previous failure at the military junkyard/museum, I hoped that my luck would turn around today.
Thankfully my luck decided to not only turn around, but do three or four more rotations in a positive direction. Follow me here; an overgrown, reused, weather-beaten, abandoned minor-league baseball stadium. Oh photography gods, how I thank thee.
Bush Stadium is the previous home of the Indianapolis Indians, the local minor league squad. After a bit of digging, I found out that the stadium had been built in 1931 as Perry Stadium, then renamed Victory Field in 1942, and renamed for its remaining days as Bush Stadium. With a rich history including multiple movies being filmed on-site, Negro League baseball finals, and even being a host stadium for the 1987 Pan-Am games, the future of the stadium is now looking quite bleak. The stadium saw its final hurrah in 1997 as a midget auto racing venue.
Thirteen years later, the stadium sits in shambles, being used as a lot to hold cars from the "Cash for Clunkers" program. Very sad story for quite a history-rich building. With that being said, here is what was seen through my lens.
Well, I started off the day with a plan to head to a local Military Junkyard/Museum. After knocking out class and work, all I wanted to do was take some shots of rusted out tanks and jets. Thanks to someone at the museum closing up shop a few hours early, that shoot will have to wait. But with every down there has to be an up, right?
Enter Broad Ripple Art Center. This place is only a quick jaunt from my apartment, and for some reason I had not shot it until just the other day. After running around their grounds, snapping a few fun photos I realized that I am in severe need of someone to model for me. There are far too many interesting backgrounds and objects for someone to interact with. Until then, enjoy the scenery.
Side note - I decided to play around with some homemade filters (post) and see what I could accomplish. I am pretty happy with a few of them; surreal, yet defined. Let me know your thoughts!
Before and after my trip to Tokyo, I had the opportunity to stop in L.A. to pick up and drop off Mr. Beau Bye. We managed to pack in quite a few different activities throughout this short time. From the Getty to Venice Beach, Hollywood to Solvang, I tried to capture as much as possible through my lens. I'm quite sure that nearly half of my shots were of the rolling hills seen throughout the north portion of L.A., so I will try to condense those to another post someday. For now, enjoy.
Once I got back from the trip to California and Japan I realized that I had taken a decent amount of panoramic shots. Here are some of the better ones.
Side note - Many of these are very, very large files. Some were well over 33mb and I had to downsize them so as to not ruin the interwebz. Feel free to click on some of the shots themselves and peer around, they're a lot larger than you think.
I would like to begin by apologizing to the entire month of June. Between hopping the Pacific, spending time in California and moving my life to Indianapolis, I somehow kept pushing back my posts. I swear it will never happen again. I hope.
Now that that's out of the way, let's get down to business. Japan. Tokyo to be exact. Nothing about this place was even remotely the same as home, but everything was amazing. There isn't nearly enough time for me to tell all of the stories through text, so I'll give it my best shot...through my shots. I hope you all enjoy, because it was surely one of the most astounding moments of my life thus far.
