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The Los Angeles Dodgers: Four Concepts, Four Layouts
by Amy Sotolongo
(Jul 16, 2012)
It is April 10, 2012, with not a cloud in the sky, seventy-six degrees with a slight breeze, and a sea of fans in blue flood the stadium. Fifty-five-thousand-plus fans have come to cheer on their boys in blue. This is my first time attending Opening Day and I've brought my eighty-four-year old grandmother with me to see all the splendor of a new season ahead. She has her blue glittery fingernails, I have my hat and Dodgers shirt, and we are ready for a game we will never forget. This game of baseball weaves with it memories that will last a lifetime. These memories are worth documenting. Layout #1 After taking my grandmother to Opening Day 2012, I knew I wanted to record the day for my scrapbooks. Using the new Echo Park "Note to Self" line, I created this layout:
Unfortunately, my grandma's face is shaded in the photo, but I might be able to correct this later in Photoshop. Regardless, it's a day I had to record. Here are a few more views:
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Challenge yourself: Pull out photos from the last game you attended. What stands out? Spend time journaling your experiences and then, scrapbook those photos! Layout #2 Dodger Stadium is my town. I'm a Southern California girl and I grew up with Fernando Valenzuela and Orel Hershiser on the mound and Vin Scully on the TV and radio. I took a photo of the stadium during the pregame festivities on Opening Day and had it printed at 8 ½" x 11". I then created this layout documenting the stadium:
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Challenge yourself: Do you attend your hometown baseball games regularly? Where is "your town"? Document it. If you don't live near a MLB stadium, consider documenting a high school or college stadium you do attend regularly. Layout #3: For my next layout I thought about scrapbooking my childhood connection to baseball. I went to my box of old photos and scanned and printed some oldies but goodies. I have many photos that include me with a Dodgers shirt on, and so I began to build a layout using the "then" and "now" concept of documenting. Here's a look at the layout:
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Your baseball layouts don't always have to be about just the game you attended or the stadium itself, but you can also record your experiences with your team across time. On the left and middle are photos from my childhood, and on the right is a photo of my husband and me at a Dodgers game together. Challenge yourself: Do you have photos from childhood or the past that you can scrapbook alongside your baseball photos of today? Pull some together and make a layout. Keep it simple with the focus on the photos. Layout #4: Another concept you can use to document stadiums/baseball games is to document celebrating at a stadium (if you attend games to celebrate). We love celebrating at Dodger Stadium. Here's a layout I made documenting us celebrating my husband's thirtieth birthday:
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Challenge yourself: If you have celebrated a birthday, anniversary, etc. at a sporting event, pull out those photos and get them scrapped. I hope I have inspired you to create at least one layout with your baseball photos, regardless of what team you root for. |
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