This shot confirming Michael Phelps victory in the 100 M butterfly took years or planning. ©Heinz Kleutmeier and Jeff Kavanaugh/Sports Illustrated

I finally got one of the issues of Sports Illustrated today from the Olympics (a good friend of mine had mailed it to me because I was “lucky” enough to make it into the Leading Off section - no - not a photo that I made, but a photo of me - in the scrum of photographers covering Phelps getting a hug from his mother after the race…) and I saw something extremely refreshing:  the credit read:  Photo by Heinz Kluetmeier and Jeff Kavanaugh. (more…)