I've been to ice rinks, I've been to theaters. But it's not often I go to an ice rink in a theater, especially a rink that's only there for a day.
This past Sunday, the Palace Theater in Stamford hosted "Sleeping Beauty on Ice," a holiday show. The Sleeping Beauty part is standard, I suppose; it's the "on ice" part that gets tricky in a traditional theater setting. So on Saturday the Stamford Advocate sent me there to photograph how an ice rink gets built inside a grand old theater.
Turns out it's not too tricky, if you know what you're doing. Not many people do, but Lynn Novakofski does. That's him in the photo above, spraying water on crushed ice cubes. The photo below shows his colleague, Ed Armstrong, taking a turn a half hour later.
Technique note: I shot the frame above with a very long shutter speed -- longer than a second, I think -- on a tripod. I wanted the lights from the theater to burn in nicely.
Speaking of lights, while Lynn, Ed, and crew were setting up the rink, Michael Pegler, house electrician for the Stamford Center for the Arts, fine-tuned the lights for the performance. That's Michael at work, below:
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