Photography at the Olympics.

I admit it. I hadn’t planned on it, but I’ve been taken in by the Olympics. It helps that we have CBC/TSN in the house, so when we get home in the evening, we turn on Ron MacLean and just let it flow, and I’ll get through another Olympics without NBC.

The big difference: CBC covers the competition. NBC is covering the event. It may sound minor, but it’s huge…

But what’s really caught me is the photography. I’m really, really loving the photography coming out of the Olympics. My first love in high school was sports photography (god bless Tri-X and wet darkrooms), so this is really taking me home in ways I hadn’t expected.

Here are some of the places I’ve been watching the images come through. If you haven’t been seeing the Olympics through a lens, you ought to; you’ll see it in a different way than on TV, one that really brings home the emotion, intensity and competition.

To the folks out there actually DOING this: thanks. it’s blowing me away.

Seattle Times: Best Seat in the House

Reuters: Photographers

The reuters guys make me want to pack up my gear, find them, and refuse to go away until they hire me as a sherpa or something….

update: oops, knew I forgot one:

Sacramento Bee: The Frame

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