I think I was glued to the Olympics more this year than ever before. I love the watching the swimming, diving and gymnastics. This year seemed to completely take the event to an entire new level and one that I doubt that many other countries will be able to compete with ever again. The fact that China spent an estimated 40 Billion dollars on this event as a whole blows my mind. This was not just the Olympics to them. It was transforming our vision of China and their future. They were investing into their country.
As a photographer we were constantly watching the other photographers and their coverage of the games. What an experience it would have been. The amount of World Records alone that happened not to mention the opening and closing ceremonies. I saw someone post a link of Vincent Laforet’s images from the games. They are truly amazing and I admired the unique way in which he captured the games. I thought I would put up two of my favorite diving images. I hope you enjoyed this world event as much as we did.
Photograph by Vincent Laforet for NEWSWEEK
Photograph by Vincent Laforet for NEWSWEEK
Regis, if that is the case I think there might be some questions about if you are 16 or not.
Did you see me at the Olympic? I was part of the Gold Medal winning gymnastic team… I did the floor exercise 🙂
Garrett, Oh yea, too bad for Vincent. I definitely think it was a mistake. 🙂 We too were GLUED to the tv for these events. Really a joy to see such records being broken though this generation.
These are great! Do you think he did that on purpose or he just forgot to change his shutter speed? 😉
Joy and I were totally into the swimming and gymnastics as well.