Ski Jump and cross Country
Today it’s the turn of the Cross Country Skiers and the crazies who hurl themselves down the large hill and into thin air for some 100m or so – rather them than me! A few less photographers around the venue today as both Alpine with the Mens Super G, and Skeleton on the sliding track, [...]
Another day at the Winter Games
Someone asked me today why we couldn’t have moved the snowboard and freestyle ski events could not have been moved from snow starved Cypress Mountain to Whistler, where we still have plenty of the white stuf, despite the temperature hitting +8C in today’s sun. Unless you visit an Olympic site you can have no idea [...]
Olympics day 4
It seems that finding time to write a blog each day is very difficult. Would never have guessed that I would work longer hours and more pressure as a Photo Manager than as an Olympic Photographer. This was another very busy day at Biathlon, again we were inundated with photographers looking for something to shoot [...]
Olympic Blog begins
Just 2 days to go to the opening ceremonies – and there still seems so much to do. There is more technology installed for this Games than any other winter Olympics. The big 6 Agencies, AP, AFP, Reuters, Getty Images, Canadian press and EPA have banded together and bought technology that allows them to transmit [...]
30 Days to go
My apologies for the long delay since my last post but my work for the Vancouver 2010 Games has kept me extremely busy. There is just 30 days to go to the opening ceremonies and suddenly we are starting to wonder how everything will get done – but of course we will as that opening [...]
Artistic skiing – Cypress Mountain
Another pre-Olympic test event – this time the mens and ladies moguls at Cypress Mountain. Fortunately the fog that rolled in yesterday stayed away for mosy of the day rendering excellent photography. The main test today was physically climbing up the side of the mogul hill to the photographers positions – impossible for those who [...]