A Return to Public Schools Stadium

This evening I made my triumphant return to Public Schools Stadium and the first thing I did after stepping inside was ordering two hot dogs, a Kit Kat bar and a Gatorade.  Those three things more than anything else tell me that fall has descended upon Duluth.  Don’t mind the changing of the leaves, the threat of snowflakes on the Minnesota-Canada border or the increasingly frequent need to don long-sleeve attire.  No, none of that tells me fall is here.  It’s that wonderful concoction of two hot dogs, a candy bar and a Gatorade that tell me fall sports have begun.

When I worked at the Duluth News Tribune, it marked the beginning of my favorite seven months on the job.  I could hardly believe I was getting paid to attend sporting matches and take photographs.

Well all that is in the past now, but I don’t plan on giving that up and the same indicators of fall descending upon Duluth remain.  That’s how I found myself at Public Schools Stadium tonight shooting a matchup of Duluth East and Duluth Central girls soccer.  While the match wasn’t that competitive, East won 11-0, I was able to make a few decent frames and get back into the swing of things so to say.

I’ve got a really cool project I’m working on right now that I’ll keep quiet about, but when it happens you are going to see a ton of cool stuff on here when it is done.

And here are three frames from tonight’s game…

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Beverly - The “really cool project” is U6 soccer. Right? Right?September 16, 2009 – 10:17 pm

Jason - Nice shots Derek, and I completely know what you mean about fall being associated with hotdogs and kit kat bars! Well said.September 17, 2009 – 6:45 am

Derek - @Jason… ha! perhaps that is a uniquely DRock experience.

@Beverly… I guess you’ll have to keep visiting this site 20 times a day until I tell you what it is.September 17, 2009 – 7:09 am

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