The Illusion of Desolation
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We arrived early at the football field in suburban Philadelphia last night. It was 6:30 pm and the game was to begin at 7. It was 62F degrees and light rain was falling.
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I tried black and white because my pre-game experimentation with very high ISO and in-camera noise reduction produced "iffy" results, but I liked the composition so much that I decided to go with the desolation theme.
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Three hours later, the game ended in jubilation on this side of the field [and POURING RAIN everywhere].
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But you wouldn't know it from this shot, would you?
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I'll include two earlier versions of this in the discussion area.
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Uploaded on October 20, 2013