Goodwill Games Cycle crash

Very interesting photograph. It seems to have very good DOF for the lense you were using. You did a great job of capturing the action, and showing people how beautiful sports photography can be. Like your portfolio as well!

Thank you Daniel, "Almost a little TOO clean for my tastes." That's it!

 

Please don't get me wrong, your work is some of the best on this site. Your skill and vision are obvious and this shot is proof.....but this, it's just "TOO clean." :-)

I think it's time to fund Daniel's fan club. :)))

Nice works indeed.

David,

 

Start that fund raiser man!!!!!

I left my full time staff shooting position at the Aspen Times back in June to move down here to Australia to be with my girlfriend......who broke up with me in August!!

So if you guys envy my life.......don't! I have been one sad and lonely puppy since that happened and it has made it really hard to even think about tooting my horn for work.

 

So here I am in Australia trying to pick up the pieces from my failed love life and seeing if I can find something that Geographic has not yet done.........and do it, not to mention any other work I can P/U. I have gotten bits and pieces here and there but I know I am not bieng confident or trying hard enough.

Not so easy when the economy has taken the road it has either.

Hats off to all of you have not screwed up your relationships and still have a real income and medical benefits.

 

I will post stuff when I feel it is worth posting I suppose.

 

Thank you for all your kind words everyone.

 

Dan

A very good quality and an excellent capture.

David.

 

I haven't a clue why you've brought this up here.

Take David out and educate him on boundaries.

Take Vuk out and educate him on appropriate response.

Please

 

Paul,

Vuk and David could very well be bored. I kind of like the abstract way of how things pop up here and there on this site....kind of goes with the tempermental artist type way of thinking.

 

I am sitting here scanning 50-60MB files that are taking heaps of time, so I suppose I am bored somewhat too, it's been raining here all day. Good reading and lens cleaning time maybe??

 

 

First off, I am going to comment on first David Geiszler's post, and then on Vuk Vuksanovic's post. First Mr. Geiszler's, I will quote part of it here:

 

"Shouldn't we praise the courage of the men and women who operate every day within two thousand yards of the former WTC, keeping this empire's financial infrastructure's heart beating, despite the number of casualties in their line, the smell of death in the air, and the threat of mayhem constantly present?"

 

So, are you saying that now the only valid photographs are the ones that show images of policemen and firemen at Ground Zero of the WTC? Yes, the events are very tragic, we lost many lives. But, I'd like to think that it's much better to go on living. Remember the victims, but honor them by living, not wallowing in grief and sorrow, or giving knee jerk reactions because someone dares to post a photo that does not have to do with the WTC. To be honest with you, we need even more so to see shots from things like the Olympics and Goodwill games, to show us that despite such tragic events, as a whole we can as a planet get together and compete in sporting events in a civil manner, even if there is a minority of people on this planet that feel that terrorism is the answer. I don't know about you, but I'm going to continue living my life, yes remember the victims of the WTC and Pentagon attacks (amazing how people mention the WTC but forget the Pentagon, even if less lives were lost there), and not live in fear. Remember...a terrorist isn't a terrorist if no-one fears him or her.

 

Mr. Vuksanovic then posts this in reply to Mr. Geiszler's post:

 

"I haven't a clue why you've brought this up here, but I think your thoughts would be better directed at the moment toward the innocent people of Afghanistan who are currently being bombed and starved by the world's most powerful terrorist force. "

 

Amazing how the demagogues ooze out of the woodwork at this time. I personally have no clue why you mentioned your personal political agenda. I personally don't agree with you at all, but isn't it a bit hypocritical to wonder why Mr. Geiszler brougt up his point, then to bring up you little bit of political dogma? Sounds like to me you were looking for an excuse to spout off your parp propaganda. Perhaps you had better wonder about your motives, if they are at all honorable, before wondering about the motives of others.

 

And now, the original purpose, before reading the posts I quoted for posting here, a critique of this shot. I feel it does capture the moment well, so to speak. Someone else used "The Agony of Defeat" analogy from the old ABC Sports Intro, and I can very much concurr with that. It manages to do what it should do, that is tell the story of a signifigant event in the race, in only one frame, what a photojournalistic shot like this should do IMHO. The fact that the bright and vivid colors of the racing uniforms worn by the contestants add interest to me helps also. Anyway, a wonderful shot.

 

Evan <---Almost afraid to make Photo of the Week now, if I ever do. Positive and negative critique is fine, but I don't want my image to go off on a tangent filled with political dogma and rhetoric.

 

 

 

 

daniel, you should get some extra RAM for your CPU. you'll be surprised on how much faster your scanning goes.

Maurice,

I guess the process of scanning 40-50 slides in a row at 5 minutes a piece is what is taking heaps of time. They used to take 15-16 minutes each until I bumped the ram on my powerbook up to nearly 800MB. One gig is the most I could put in it but alot of Mac user's are having problems with having two 512 chips right now as I have noticed on the Apple discussion board.

 

Anyway, it's fast, I have just been scanning all day.

 

Dan

Sorry about that little slip. It was late, I'd had a few drinks and just finished reading about a young girl in Afghanistan who'd had her legs blown off. I'm only human. I will delete my posting above right now, then remove this explanation at the end of the day.

David,

 

Thanks for the input. Anything is helpful when your mind is in a rutt. As for Tony, I actually met him down in Sydney back in August, the lady was with me too. He's a great chap, he showed us all over the city and we had a few laughs watching his two dogs try to attack four legged creatures 50 times there size. Tony if you read this, I have not emailed ANYONE really since my split w/ Amy, pretty lame excuse I know. Going to Tasmania to try to "Hike" it off for the next few weeks.

 

Dan

Dan (and David),

 

I know this sounds like an "amazing coincidence", but I went all through school in Sydney with Hurley's grandson and knew the family quite well (still do). They lived around the corner from me in suburban Strathfield, in a modest house full of amazing photographs six feet square that my kid's eye just took for granted as part of the furniture. I suppose I must have met the Great Man at some stage, but was too young to remember the occasion. It wasn't till old Frank had died (and I had grown up some) that I realised who he was and the contribution he had made to photography. Two months after being rescued from Antarctic Elephant Island (after Shackelton himself rowed two thousand miles in an open boat to the Falkland Islands to get help), Hurley was in Palestine photographing the Australian Light Horse regiment for the Australian Army (and the ancient city of Petros, for himself). This was 1916. Eight months after that he was at the Western Front doing the same thing. "Keen photographer" is an understatement for this guy! No Nikon D1-Xs either: he used an 8x10 view camera with glass plates to do his reportage, both in the trenches of France and throughout the "Endurance" Antarctic expedition (David is right: this expedition was an amazing adventure, too "Boys Own" to be true, except it WAS true).

 

When you're next in Sydney, look us up again. Bob & Cozzie often ask after their Uncle Dave (and they still attack Rottweilers on the "The Bigger They Are..." principle). If you get to Tassie, you must go to Maria Island, north of Hobart: Paradise on Earth, especially Chinaman's Beach, mid-island (long walk from the Darlington settlement though... then again, sounds just the ticket for sweating off the blues).

David,

 

That would be interesting, as that is how Hurley made much of his early living as well: "magic lantern" shows. But he's been done much better, by others, I think. I actually read Hurley's book about the adventure. It was amazing to read about the large scale whale hunting industry of South Georgia (in the Falklands), depicted by Hurley as one of "the Empire's most magnificent industrial enterprises". How times change...

Great picture! But it seems like that must have hurt!

Does anyone in the house have a kidney to sell?

Sorry about that little slip. It was late, I'd had a few drinks and just finished reading about a young girl in Afghanistan who'd had her legs blown off.

Was that the little girl who had her legs blown off when Taliban forces chased her and her family into a mine field left behind by Russian forces?

Your political agenda has worn thin around here Vuk. No amount of apologies will negate your narrow-minded world view. I'm glad you're enjoying the freedoms that Americans fought and died to preserve, but am beyond sick of hearing your anti-American prejudices.

BTW, nice shot Daniel. It isn't my favorite in your folder (I love the volloyball photo) but this shot is well desrving of POW honors. Is it perfect? Of course not. But it is still a damn fine sports photo.

No, I do not owe Vuk an apology. He has spouted his anti-American ideology here every chance he gets. BTW, he's not Canadian. He's a Bosnian refugee who fled his country to enjoy the relative peace and freedom our families fought and died to preserve. I don't fault him for fleeing the horrors in his homeland, but I do find his constant political rants repulsive and hypocritical.

Well said

Darron.

 

I am not a Bosnian refugee--in fact, I have never even set foot there. After living in Serbia and Croatia for a while, my immediate family moved to Canada in 1973 when I was almost 7 years old and I've been a citizen of the country for about 2 decades. As for open-mindedness, I truly doubt you are in any position to lecture me about it: you have absolutely no idea about my eductation, the things I read and what I believe in. It does seem, however, judging by the assumptions you've broadcast concerning my background, that you're rather quick to jump to misinformed conclusions about people.

 

Vuk.

Vuk, I will apologize for misidentifying your background. However, you have repeatedly used this forum to espouse your political views, and cried "censorship" several times when you were admonished for doing so. As mentioned, I'm sick of seeing you use a photography forum to denigrate a country that fights to preserve the freedoms you have enjoyed for two decades. I will not apologize for calling out that hypocrisy.

 

Your polictical agenda is out of place here.

Darron.

 

You are the only one continuing to discuss politics here, not to mention that your comments are simplistic, arrogant, patronising and offensive. At the very least, I would expect a Photonet moderator to be more "diplomatic" about all of this, especially considering that I removed my tangential comment several days ago and almost immediately after it was posted.

 

Apologies to everyone, once again.

How many photos you made in this scene?

I would like to see all the sequence.

Congratulations for the excellent picture!

 

...I think Lance Armstrong would kringe at this one...