Michael Phelps is surrounded by what must be one of the largest swarm of photographers I've ever seen after he jumped into one of the two photo wells to get a hug from his sister and mother. Photograph by Vincent Laforet for NEWSWEEK

 Now comes the hard part.  With the two marquee events past us, the men’s 100M and Phelps’s 8th gold, the newsman in me tells me that the Olympics are pretty much over.  But the lensman in me knows better than to give up now. It’s time to start chasing photographs—not necessarily the news. Time to have fun and start to take even bigger risks from now on, especially since everyone has been seeing hundreds of Olympic photographs for more than a week now. (more…)