Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Sox Game... and New Camera

I recently purchased a new camera - a Canon Power Shot SX200. It isn't an SLR but has 12x zoom (optical) which is great for a digital camera and I am pretty familiar with how the Canon works. I tried it out at the Sox game.



Here is our new White Sox outfielder, Alex Rios. These pictures turned out pretty well considering I was in the upper deck at maximum optical zoom (12x). Glad the Sox picked him up off waivers and it shows that management is committed to trying to win this year, along of course with Peavy.



It is like "old school" night as Freddy Garcia is back with the Sox. Freddy of course was a big part of our 2005 World Championship team, and then he pitched against us last year late in the season in kind of a bizarro turn as the Sox squeaked into the post season. Someone put a marriage proposal on the big screen and I joked that she should only accept if Freddy made it out of the 5th inning... he didn't, by the way, so they must be doomed.



Here is a picture at night - this camera does much better in low light than my former digital camera.



And here is a picture at dusk.



I had to get a picture of the winner of the round of Dan's crappy beer challenge - MGD! Go Miller products!

4 comments:

Dan from Madison said...

You will die five years earlier than you should have by consuming that goat p1ss. Boy the zoom on that camera is outstanding, it will do great at Soldier Field gettnig action shots of the drumline.

Gerry from Valpo said...

We call Garcia "Sweaty" Freddy because he will be soaked in sweat even in 60 degree temps. Don't think he'll make much of a difference but hey.

Very nice photos, especially the beer!

Jonathan said...

Beer photo is the bomb.

Carl from Chicago said...

Thanks to Gerry it is on the masthead!

I may be an expert on beer photos, if little else