After a gloriously sunny, and incongruously warm Sunday afternoon, Monday evening followed up with another "Wet Coast" winter weather staple. It was cold, wet and miserable, with gusts of wind driving the famous West Coast "liquid sunshine' sideways in torrents. After numerous public complaints and condemnations about the amount of security both shrouding and surrounding the Olympic Flame that was lit by no less than the Great One himself, Wayne Gretzky, VANOC came to its senses and peeled enough of the security barriers off of the ten-foot high chain-link fences to allow people to not only glimpse the flames, but have their pictures taken in front of the impressive structure.
Even as the hour approached midnight and the rain continued to come down in buckets, throngs of people lined up to see the Olympic Flame. It was a rather stirring sight.
Pictures taken with a Nikon D700 and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII lens.
- Vince Hemingson Reporting!
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Have you thought of offering up one single image each day instead of many? It might provide a stronger focus to the project.
ReplyDeleteGood point. That's a great observation. In fact, I'm so glad you asked that question! The best single image -- or at least the image I pick every day to be the ONE image of the day -- is posted every day to my Flickr account (see, Fifty in Photos on Flickr at the top of my Favorite Photo Links)), where you can see a slide show of all the photos of the day.
ReplyDeleteI have been posting "multiple" images of the day, because the huge number of e-mails I received from friends, family and other people who argued that if the purpose of www.FiftyinPhotos.com was to document my fiftieth year in photos, then I should show something of the effort that goes into taking photographs every day.
If you go to Fifty in Photos on Flickr, you will simply get the photo per day slide show, minus all the Vince commentary. That being said, most people follow the Blog to hear the daily Vince whining, moaning, kvetching and complaining that passes for my commentary.
Cheers, Vince
PS Why are you posting as Anonymous?
I think your project is fabulously focused Vince!
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