As the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia approach, it’s hard not to reflect on the amazing time that Vancouver had just four short years ago. For me personally, it was a highlight of my lifetime. I took six weeks off work and was basically a freelance photographer during the both the Winter Olympics and…
My recent trip to Whistler was filled with good times including getting to be on hand for the 2010 FIBT World Cup bobsleigh and skeleton events at the Whistler Sliding Centre. I never had a chance to visit the Sliding Centre during the Olympics (I couldn’t be everywhere at once!) so it was especially cool…
After three weeks, over 17,000 photos and hours of video, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are done. It feels strange to see the city slowly transform itself back to the pre-Olympic state (with some Paralympic exceptions). I wasn’t as quick to update my Olympic subsite as I was my Flickr, YouTube and Twitter accounts but…
One of the cool things about creating so much content during the Olympic Games is that you can make stuff with it… Make sure you view the full size image. I built this using the 1200 photos I’ve uploaded to Flickr (so far) and a fun little program called Photo Collage that I’ve written about…
I was warned that pin trading is a HUGE part of every Olympic Games and Scales & kk couldn’t have been more right These guys are HUGE pinheads :) Here’s just a small sampling of what I scored during the games: Of course, the fact that Apple had Canadian pins was pretty cool: But this…
My view of the win from Robson Square…a perfect close to an amazing Winter Olympic Games for me.
Another random interview/photo opportunity popped up yesterday when Rebecca & I met up with George Stroumboulopoulos, from CBC’s The Hour, outside Robson Square and we shot a quick interview with him: I love how he dealt with fans while we were shooting the interview…very cool guy.
Canada’s favorite Skeleton man, Jon Montgomery discusses how he originally discovered Skeleton and what steps he went through to get involved in the sport:
While not directly Olympics related, it happened during the games so I’m going to include it here as it’s all part of my experiences in February. This event was a nice diversion after a week of Olympics related activity. My good friends at Molson invited a bunch of local folks over to their brewery to…
Here’s some more amazing people that I’ve come across during my Olympic adventures: Jon Montgomery After winning the gold medal in skeleton, he walked through Whistler Village to do an interview and someone handed him a pitcher of beer which he drank from…to me this is one of the defining moments of the games that…