Pixel Darkroom Photography

I have to say I am very touched by what happened today up in Whistler. I wonder if the track is pushing it too far for athletes. I have read in the news a quote by a luger saying that tracks can be tricky without getting so fast. This is the newest and the fastest and apparently the deadliest track. I wonder what the investigations will say. Nodar Kumaritashvili was an experienced luger, and more athletes have crashed in Whistler on this track before. I pray for his family and his team-mates. This is a sober reminder of how fragile life is and how unexpected the end of it can come.

On a different note, even though I’ve lived in many countries and I admire a lot more of them for their cultures and their people I do not own many flags. I could only find the US flag and the Canadian caps for my kids. I hope by the end of the Olympic Games to be able to come up with a more cosmopolitan shot. Enjoy the games. God bless you.

Strobist info: 580 EX II CL on a stand, via ST-E2 in Av mode.

If it happened today, I need to post it here. I will probably feel bad not to do it. I admit I could have planned it (better), because I actually did not plan it. I knew it was going to move around the city before it stops downtown, but didn’t really think much of it. I certainly did not think it was going to wake me up one morning. So here’s what happened: while still sleeping, this morning around 7:10 I hear loud noises outside. I get up, figure out what’s happening, I go downstairs, I put on a telephoto lens on my camera, take a peak out the window and realize the view is better from upstairs, run back up hoping I would not have missed it. Snap a few shots to tweak with the exposure and hope I would get something decent before the event goes by. I cranked up the sensor sensitivity for low light conditions and there it is. Eight frames later, you see this image. Since it happened today, I thought of journaling it here and there you have it: Day 118, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games torch going by.