RE: #401

Mark offered:

>>As time went on, there were more and more photographers, and some wouldn't
ask if they were in your way - they'd just jam into your sight line so THEY
could get the shot. So I learned to work around increasingly crowded
courses,<<<<

Hi Mark,

Well it truly is a learning only gained by being in a "Crowd." ;-) Certainly
of photographers at the Olympics. So many crammed together you may find a
600mm lens right beside your right ear and another on the opposite side and
you are holding just as long or longer lens aimed in the same direction over
the shoulder of another. ""ABSOLUTELY NO TRIPODS!""

Hand held or on monopod and you're in that position for maybe 5-6 hours!

 

Yep and sometime a new guy will come along and try pushing in between.
However the older guys tell him politely;-) just where he can put himself
and lenses!

This usually happens minutes before the event start gun fires and most of us
have been holding down our spot for several hours just to have the best
positions.

New people learn quickly because it really hurts when they push in and find
themselves being "accidentally" :-) bumped on each side of the head with a
couple of 600mm lenses! :-) 

 

And you know they've learned when the next day of competition when you
arrive 4 hours before the start and here's the new guy with a smile and in
position ready to go with his position locked down! :-)

 

But no matter the crush, tired legs, smelly humans jammed together unwashed
for  days, aching gut from no food, there just isn't anything like shooting
the Olympics!

However, eventually "time catches up!" :-(

ted

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