I love all kinds of photography, but I particularly enjoy photographing sports. (Sports photography is excellent training for shooting weddings and portraits of toddlers!) I have done a bunch of different sports, but swimming is probably my favorite. My two older kids are competitive swimmers, but ironically, since parents are not allowed on deck, I don't often get a chance to photograph them! Here are a few shots from a meet we went to at Springfield College, Springfield, Mass. in June. I was shooting from the bleachers, which is usually a lost cause, except that the light was actually pretty good, and I used lenses that I could open up really wide. Another small detail, these are film shots! I normally shoot digital for sports, but my film cameras ROCK when it comes to fast action, so it was a pleasure. Apologies for the grain in the photos--this was high-speed film, and scanning tends to exaggerate grain:
