Time Immortal

There must have been a football game tonight.

Where was this taken?

I must have just missed the game — a shame, really, since it might have been nice to take some pictures of the players in action. Clarke Stadium, immediately south (practically “in the shadow of”) Commonwealth Stadium, is used these days primarily by high school and community football teams, typically for competition play (finals, tournaments, etc.). I’ve played there a couple of times, back in those days when I played football.

I remember being under these lights. Generally speaking, I don’t have many fond memories of football (as two surgical scars on my left forearm often remind me), but I always enjoyed the lights. And on cold nights like tonight, when the field was flanked on all sides by snow, the lights were doubly special…the snow beneath them is dazzlingly white.

I’ll have to see if I can get by the field one evening when a game is being played; it’d be nice to try do some action work. My only regret is that for night work like this when I have no tripod, I have to increase the ISO setting on the camera, which makes for a noisier image.