Showing posts with label hockey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hockey. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Auditorium Flower Pots



This is another shot from the pre Irene walk. These planters of color ring the Auditorium here in Verdun. I took the first picture and felt the ground pounding underneath my feet. I turned around and saw that i was being approached by twenty odd hulking sweat machines. The Juniors were doing laps around the building and were being timed.I quickly snapped two more photos, then grabbed Nalin's leash and pulled her to safety off of the sidewalk. I swung around the front of the building and tried to get a picture of the coaching staff checking the stop watches, but it was the end of the run and hockey players laying on the concrete didn't seem like good subject matter to me.

I didn't imagine that the flower pot shots would turn out, not having time to check the picture and adjust, but by some fluke they were pretty clear with a slightly blurred foreground. The vibrant colors didn't need any help in editing. If you click the shot and enlarge the photo, notice the crazy seed pods on the stalks of the white flowers.


Friday, March 23, 2007

The New NHL

Alot of oldtimers have been burning on the state of hockey all year long.I've done it myself.But,I gotta tell ya,watching stretch games over the last two weeks,its back and more alive than ever(unless you live in Edmonton or Philly- R.I.P. boys).I haven't been checking out Habs games per say but if you are watching ( or listening ) to games from Tampa,Buffalo,New York and even Nashville-the fans are loud and proud.REAL LOUD!Too bad a good playoff fight is being marred by fighting and highsticking.Both the Chris Simon incident and the Fedoruk punch(you couldn't really call that a fight)were notably followed by very long silences.People are not paying $100 and up to watch some EMTs carry a gorilla off the ice.They can go see it for free on Saturday afternoons when the Freeman brothers get ripped while fishing on Lake Champlain and fall in the hole.The good thing is the game looks like it has made it through the strike era and come out fully intact.Long live the good ol hockey game.
P.S. Montreal are still going to miss the Playoffs.
P.S.S. Go ISLES!!!