Spawn of MZone: Wallpaper Wednesday: Stadium Lights

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Wallpaper Wednesday: Stadium Lights

I am making a slight change to the Wallpaper Wednesday feature. Based on the statistics I have available 43.26% of the visitors of this site have their screen resolutions set to 1280 x 1024 - which represents the largest single group setting. Going forward, the wallpapers I post here will be set to 1280 x 1024 (not the 1280 x 800 I use on my laptop).

As a photographer, when I first saw this photo (on the banner of this M blog) I was very impressed. The simplicity and color make this photo memorable. Only later did I discover the image was captured by a Michigan student during the 2005 Penn State game, which made it even more special.

There is nothing I could have added via Photoshop or any other image manipulation tool to increase the beauty of what MightyBoyBrian has provided.

Hail !

5 comments:

TitleIX said...: I've really enjoyed seeing the sun low in the sky in the west during those late fall, late afternoon games.
Enjoy those memories folks because the new construction will blot out the sun.....

it will be weird to see all the cahnges; 8/20/2008 9:15 AM
surrounded in columbus said...: T9,
we'll still have sunsets. they'll just start @ 3:30!; 8/20/2008 10:38 AM
Mikoyan said...: That looks like a pretty good photograph.

I haven't driven by the Stadium in a while, so I haven't seen the progress of the new stuff but it doesn't seem like it will be that much of a towering over. I could be wrong though. One of the things I like about Michigan Stadium over others is that it doesn't tower over the landscape. It seems to blend into the background a little more while still being there. Kind of like a Frank Lloyd Wright thing, I suppose.; 8/20/2008 11:15 AM
srudoff said...: "It seems to blend into the background a little more while still being there."

kinda like most of it's inhabitants; 8/21/2008 1:14 AM
bwolfey said...: Hey Andy,
I am that "student" who took the picture during the Michigan/Penn State game. I was in the marching band for four years and I'd like to think I took advantage of the sights and close proximity to the field during that time. Now that I've moved to a DSLR camera, my only regrets from this period are not spending the money earlier on larger capacity storage so I could take higher resolution and higher quality images.

I'm really glad to see the response that this image has generated. To me, this picture resembles so many things. It's great that so many others feel the same way. I'm happy that my account was set so as to share this shot as a wallpaper rather than horde it to myself.

Happy Wallpapering and Go Blue!

-Brian; 3/16/2009 9:03 AM