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Tokyo Field Notes: Running in the Rain

pay per click advertising Rio de Janeiro. 8/15/16. Hurdles. 800mm lens, D5. Rain. The life of a photographer is just odd, sometimes. I love the reach of the 800, I hate trying to drag it onto an Olympic bus. Toting … Continue reading

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Tokyo Field Notes: Zooming with a Fisheye?

Coming to Tokyo, I knew I’d be shooting DSLR (D6) and lots of long glass. There’s certainly a role for wide glass at the Olympics, but for action and reach, if you are not a pool shooter and on the … Continue reading

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Tokyo Field Notes: Lens Reach!

The “normal” glass for an Olympics is in the 400-600mm range. Planning for athletics, I knew a few things going in. I’m not pool, so I wouldn’t have an FOP (field of play) position, eyeballing the athletes. I had duties … Continue reading

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Tokyo Field Notes: A Wall of Sandwiches!

I love the Family Mart, two doors down from my hotel. It has sustained me for the entire Olympics. The routine for this very complex Games is that you arrive, and hard quarantine for three days, then Olympic bubble quarantine, … Continue reading

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Tokyo Field Notes: Still Listening to Jimmy Colton

Jimmy Colton was our editor when a team from Newsweek headed to Poland to cover Pope John Paul II’s second and historically significant visit to his native Poland. It was 1983, and a time of unrest, martial law, and Solidarity. … Continue reading

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