As I mentioned in the first post of this blog, I am covering the 2009 National Senior Games as part of a class at Brooks Institute.
“In a few weeks I will be covering the Nation Senior Games in Palo Alto, CA with Brooks Institute. We are the official photographers and with over 12,000 athletes, 35,000 fans, and 4,000 volunteers, it is going to be a lot of work for just 12 of us. I want to document my trip with daily posts and lots of photos. We won’t be stuck behind getty or ap… we are it. Our images will be on the first on the wire.”
Well we are now here and working and finally have internet working in the media room. We arrived on Thursday, July 30, 2009 to get situated, move into our rooms, check out the venues and do other media like things. Basically we had some meetings and figured out who was shooting what for the first couple of days. Looked at where we could shoot from and what we could do. Like I said in that quote, we are the photographers… While other newspapers will be around, we have top access and can do just about anything we want…. Just have to convince who is in charge. Of course after we finished everything we needed to get done we headed out to go eat some burgers, pizza and drink some beer. We then went on a shopping adventure for food and flip flops… Community showers=flip flops. After that little trip we headed back to the house and got to relaxing… Cards, hanging out, ya know. Then we got down to the hard core rocking party… Cleaning lenses and sensors. Yea, hardcore.
Now, of course it is Friday and we spent the day touring venues and shooting the athletes practice. I figured I would head over to the water and shoot some swimming since I have water polo as my first official assignment TOMORROW… TOMORROW… we starting shooting TOMORROW, bright and early at 7am… Have to cover our event and have everything edited and toned by 8:30pm. Should be a fun, exciting and stressful day.
Anyways, I went to the pool and spent about 45 minutes shooting some photos and met some really interesting characters… All these people are here to have some competitive fun. This woman was incredibly excited about being selected to carry the Torch tomorrow. I did a quick little interview with her and used it to put together a short multimedia piece which I will post tomorrow since it is taking a bit longer than I expected to export.
Here are a couple photos from the day.
Stanford, CA, Nana Whalen, 71, South Carolina, practices for her upcoming participation in the 2009 National Senior Games. Whalen will be competing in the 200m individual medley and 100m butterfly. This is her 6th year to compete
Anyways, I had a great time shooting this and expect that video in the morning. The staff putting together the event has been amazing at getting things together. Stanford has also been great about getting us into the venues before they are open so we can see what is up.
Also, I will be keeping my twitter updated with iphone pics through out the day… Unless of course I start getting behind on stuff. www.twitter.com/bryantswanstrom
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