Olympics

Since we don't have a TV I haven't really been following the Olympics and in my opinion the NBC website isn't all that nicely laid out or updated. Yesterday I wanted to see Bolt's record setting 200m run and I couldn't find the video after nearly two hours of playing around. However, via one of the blogs I follow, I forget which one, I found this amazing blog by a Newsweek photographer covering the Olympics. It is definitely worth reading if you enjoy photography any bit. Vincent Laforet, the photographer and blogger, is completely unpretentious and tells great stories that make you appreciate his photographs more.

The image above was made with a fisheye lens. It's a shot I thought of making early in the morning before I left the hotel because I knew how unusual it seemed to me to have such an important contest fought in such adverse conditions. Hey--its' BEACH volleyball!!! I set the lens to f22 and used the hyperfocal to get the drops in focus as much as possible... one Italian photographer just didn't understand that I was purposely allowing the waterdrops to fall on my lens... he kept screaming at me to cover the front element of my lens with my towel... that was actually the last thing I wanted to do.

Really! Check them all out.