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