Vancouver Olympics, Entry 1
Lets get one thing straight: I suck (suck, suck) at blogging. It is pretty obvious. But as I get ready to shoot my second Olympics, I’ve promised some good friends I will blog every few days about my experiences. I’m determined to keep up with it, if only for my own work flow and memories. So here we go.
This will be my first Olympics as an actual photographer, not an assistant. I am pretty excited for it, though the amount of gear and prep time I’ve needed has been pretty astounding. For instance, I learned the Olympic committee won’t let photographers on the hill for the alpine skiing events without proper crampons – $300 and a few hours of research later, and I’m the proud new owner of Asolo mountaineering boots (reviewrs of the boots commented how they had just returned from the summitting a few of the Chilean Andes – the boots worked great!) and Petzl crampons (photos to come, I’m sure). Wahoo.
Other goodies have included Mountain Hardware ski bibs, weather shells for the cameras, extra batteries, hand warmers with gaffers tape for the cameras to keep warm, pocket wizards and mounting gear for remote shots, laptop cases, 4 terabytes of hard drives (back up your stuff!), a new watch, googles, etc etc. That doesn’t even get into the lens, cameras or finding and negotiating freelance assignments. All in all, it’s been a journey.
The photo above is a small portion of a weeks worth of packing. I’m pretty pumped. Feel free to stay tuned.