civilized ku # 293-95 ~ small is beautiful, but, unfortunately, not necessary
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 12:21PM 
Some, but, by no means, not all of the banners ~ Montreal, CA • click to embiggen
Hockey heroes ~ Montreal, CA • click to embiggenThe wife and I spent last evening in the company of 21,271 Canadians (+ us), although a few in the crowd were most likely good 'ole Americans like us.
As is always the case when we visit our neighbors to the north (all of whom have healthcare, BTW), a good time was had by all. That was especially so on this visit since our team, the Pittsburgh Penquins, beat the Habs - one of the most long-lived (100 years and counting) and storied teams in sports history - in a closely contested 3-2 game.
It was also very interesting and entertaining to hear most of those 21,273 hockey fans moan, boo, howl, cry and whine after a potentially game-tying late 3rd period goal was disallowed by a ref who just might still be hiding in fear for his life somewhere in the bowels of the Bell Center. Yes, very entertaining, indeed.
An interesting non-hockey side note, re: the recent small is beautiful entries - here in the good 'ole US of America, getting anything looking like a "professional" camera into a sporting event is virtually impossible. Given that fact, I went to the game armed with the wife's Canon S???? (whatever, who can keep track?) P&S. Much to my surprise, when I inquired at the desk in the Bell Center Admin. Office, I was informed that one could take any camera into the building "as long as it isn't one of those" (visualize desk person holding her arms about 4' apart).
So it was back to the car to grab the Oly E3. However, not wanting to push the "one-of-those" barrier, I did not grab the 50-200mm Zuiko. Once again, imagine my surprise when, once inside the rink, I spied any number of DSLRs sporting decent-sized zoom lenses, albeit none of "those". Unfortunately, at that point, there was no going back - no exit and readmittance allowed.
Nevertheless, I was able to capture the hockey heart throb (see entry below) in very satisfactory fashion with the lens I had at hand - a 14-54mm Zuiko. That's very unfortunate in as much as I was planning on using a poorly executed hockey heart throb picturing result (obtained by using the very "inferior" Canon S???, of course) as a key component in my most subtle and furtively implemented need-to-get-an-Oly-EP1 campaign with the wife - the logic / rationale being that I would have most assuredly been able to get that amateur-looking camera into the rink to get a much better hockey heart throb picturing result because I only want to make you happy, dear.
Reader Comments (3)
in another 20 years there will be no Jersey Numbers left to wear in Montreal! They've all been retired.
They'll moved to Roman numerals.
that would actually be pretty sweet.