I got up early this fine Saturday morning for the sole purpose of getting out to take some pictures. I decided my destination was the recently finished Lucas Oil Stadium. I’m not particularly a football fan, but, hey, I’ll be paying a half a point every time I eat out for the next thirty years to pay for the thing. So, I might as well get some enjoyment out of it.
It’s a beautiful building…kind of a modernized twist on a turn of the century manufacturing center. The choice to skew it on the log was brilliant. It keeps it from looking too much like a factory and puts the city skyline in all of its site lines. That is difficult to capture, however, because of the nature of the surrounding area. The near south side has all of its utilities above ground, making it hard to find a vantage point to capture the scale of the thing, its relationship to the skyline, or even the roof line, that isn’t obstruct by a utility line.
Fortunately, the land between the RCA Dome and the new stadium is being developed and has been cleared. This allowed for some nice shots juxtaposing the new against the old.
I made eighty-eight shots is just under an hour. The wonders of digital. Fortunately, Aperture makes narrowing that down to my twenty or so favorites a fairly quick process. See the photos page for all the rest.
