Photo by Vincent Laforet for Newsweek
I woke up to an e-mail today from Simon Barnett (Newsweek’s director of photography) telling us that he was quite happy with our collective work so far and letting us know that he thought that perhaps we were being a bit “too hard” on ourselves and the photography we were producing here at these Olympic Games in our blogs.
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins the gold medal in the men's 100-meter final followed by Marc Burns of Trinidad and Walter Dix of the U.S.A. This is from my lower remote on a 1Ds MKIII. Photograph by Vincent Laforet for NEWSWEEK
