Back to the Future: Baxter Arena

Our first "Back to the Future" photo of Baxter Arena, shot more than two years ago.

We are quite proud of our "Back to the Future" series photos, which document the "before" and "after" of buildings in and around the Omaha area. But the Baxter Arena photo project was our most ambitious one yet.

For more than two years, we have been shooting photos from the same spot on the wall across the street from Baxter Arena. Never mind that there is a sign (just out of frame) that says to "keep off this wall." In addition to documenting the building of the arena, we also tried to include a white car in each photo. That's because there was a white car in the first photo we took.

And the final photo, shot a few days before the building's opening.

UNO Arena Update

This one won't be used in our Christmas letter
because it is not a white car in the background.

We had noticed a lot of progress at the UNO arena site lately, so we thought it would be a good time to do another photo update that can be included in our "Back to the Future" photo series. (If you aren't familiar with it, read this post.)

Fortunately, the weather was good. And true to form, Lauren lasted all of four or five photos before she shrilled "I'm tired of this!" and walked off.

Here's the photo shoot, in photos:

Veronica got a lift from Emily.

Everyone was on the lookout for a white car for our usual background.

This one should work just fine.

This is typical of the craziness behind the scenes at one of our shoots.

Lauren has obviously had enough.

We can still include (at least part of) her!

Here's an update on the Pacific Life building, which will go next to the parking garage.

UNO Arena Update

We are starting to see some progress in the construction of the new UNO arena.