2004-08-15
OLYMPICS IN ATHENS
Michael Phelps [not pictured here] took his first gold medal last night as we watched on Lynn's wide screen tv in her summer rental cottage | But it wasn't the swimmers and divers that caught my attention, so much as it was the spectacle of the distance cyclers |
In this respect, the media's tendency to have a camera virtually everywhere made the race exciting because it was so easy to watch | Shot amid, among, in front of and overhead by helicopter, you
could see the detail in breath taking swiftness |
As you can also see, I also caught sight of some of the gymnastics exercises |
Midway into the viewing I decided to experiment with the camera and do shots off the screen | I later thought I'll need to do this with a tripod to control some of the blur | There were a lot more pics that I snapped, just have to run 'em through Photoshop and reduce their file size |
Michael Phelps [not pictured here] took his first gold medal last night as we watched on Lynn's wide screen tv in her summer rental cottage | But it wasn't the swimmers and divers that caught my attention, so much as it was the spectacle of the distance cyclers |
In this respect, the media's tendency to have a camera virtually everywhere made the race exciting because it was so easy to watch | Shot amid, among, in front of and overhead by helicopter, you
could see the detail in breath taking swiftness |
As you can also see, I also caught sight of some of the gymnastics exercises |
Midway into the viewing I decided to experiment with the camera and do shots off the screen | I later thought I'll need to do this with a tripod to control some of the blur | There were a lot more pics that I snapped, just have to run 'em through Photoshop and reduce their file size |
FOR MORE OLYMPICS COVERAGE: These are "rated" according to how long it took to download the main page at 49kbs: CBC was quickest || Canadian Broadcasting's coverage | BBC's schedule of events and coverage | Then there's the gay men's perspective that women might like OutSorts Olympics Coverage | ESPN's Olympic Moments + Trivia | CNBC's coverage |
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