Category: baseball
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Top 5 Viewed Posts of 2015 : Great Balls of Fire with Doug Newstrom #3
In my year end series of the top 5 most viewed blog posts on this site, another older but goodie comes in at number 3. And the good news is : opening day of the 2016 season is just over 3 months away. Enjoy! Rob The final day of the All Star Break is today.…
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A Pyramid in Western Maryland?
This past fall I went on a short photo drive through the small town of Lonaconing in Western, Md. Lonaconing is well known to area photographers as the location of an Lonaconing Silk Milll, where for a fee, photographers can photograph a historic silk mill that was closed in 1957. (please see more photos and…
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Mascot Seating at a Potomac Nationals Game
I saw this moment unfold while attending a Potomac Nationals baseball game in Woodbridge, Va., last week. Please see below for second photo and more text.
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Weekly Photo Challenge : Foreshadow Warming Up at PNC Park
PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is one of the best stadiums to watch a baseball game in. Last summer I finally got to a game at PNC and had a blast. We got to the park early so we would have some time to explore. Seeing the manner in which the Pittsburgh skyline…
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Its O.K to Break the Rules (Sometimes)
Rules are made to be broken. One of the rules of composition that will come up at photography lectures again and again is you always have to have an odd number of elements in your image. The theory being that if there is an odd number of objects in the photo it will be more…
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Great Balls of Fire with Doug Newstrom
The final day of the All Star Break is today. I thought it would be a good time to fill the baseball void with a sports portrait from my wayback file of Virginia high school pitching phenom Doug Newstrom. Doug Newstrom was the the ace of the pitching staff for the W.T. Woodson varsity baseball team…
I See Beauty All Around, by Rob Paine 