Sport through the lens

Last week was pretty bad one. 2 races a day (sometimes this meant 4 runs a day) all the way from Tuesday to Sunday. When you count this all together, this brings one helluwa lot of photos. This was reason why I wanted to do it a bit different.

Ingrid Jacquemod of France skiing in training of Women downhill race of Audi FIS alpine skiing World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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I have been asked quite few times about tips when shooting skiing. Since sometimes I don’t feel like writing or explaining this over and over again, I finally decided to write thing or two about this. I’m not going to be writing about aperture and time settings, about white balance or about right AF mode. I guess everyone know this already, so I will rather write about things, which are not so obvious and are specific for shooting skiing.

Sanni Leinonen of Finland skiing in first run of first Women GS FIS Alpine ski World Cup 2009-2010 race in Soelden

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Olympics started, and since I’m not there, and probably will never be, I have month off. This doesn’t mean I don’t do anything, but I do have some more time to do things I love. Yeah after spending almost all my life on skis, I still love skiing, and spending time on skis is best thing I can get. But there’s more then this, and even though there’s no skiing, I still need to make some money. So I need to shoot something else then just skiing, and in this case it was CEV Indesit volleyball Champions league, and EHF women handball Champions league.

Karolina Kudlacz (no.14) of HC Leipzig (R) shooting while Marina Vergeliuk (no.7) of Krim Mercator (L) is trying to block her

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Alpine skiing World cup in Kranjska Gora is over, January is over, and now it’s time for me to get some rest. With more then 12 or 13 alpine skiing World cup races in January, you can imagine how it feels to finally have week in front of me, when I can be home for weekend with my wife, and when my only early morning/late night coming home is due my weekly ice hockey “practice”.

Marcus Sandell of Finland reacts in finish of second run of Men giant slalom race of Audi FIS alpine skiing World Cup in Kranjska Gora

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This skiing season is really crazy due Olympic games, and not even one single World cup race in February 2010. Therefore, most of FIS Alpine skiing World cup races are concentrated on few weeks between middle of December and end of January.

Tenth after first run Nastasia Noens of France skiing in first run of Women slalom race of Audi FIS alpine skiing World Cup in Flachau

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This is definitely crazy month. It’s only 11th of January, and tomorrow will be 6th FIS alpine skiing World cup race we covered already, and it will be in third different place.

Having fun with coach of Finnish women team, Janez Slivnik during first run of women Snow queen trophy slalom

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Happy New year everyone! :) I ended year 2009 shooting FIS alpine skiing World cup in Lienz, Austria, and I’m starting year 2010 same way… shooting FIS alpine skiing World cup in Zagreb, Croatia.

Esther Good of Switzerland skiing in first run of women giant slalom World Cup race in Lienz

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After two years or so, I was back shooting sport of my life… cross country skiing World cup in Rogla, Slovenia. And short spoiler for beginning… There are photos only of Finnish skiers…. with reason! ;)

Aino Kaisa Saarinen of Finland skiing during qualifications

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Now winter really started also for us. From now, until end of January, thing are going to be crazy. But I actually like this :)

Everything started with e.on Ruhrgas IBU Biathlon World cup races in Pokljuka, Slovenia. And it will continue with Viessmann Cross country FIS World cup races in Rogla, Slovenia

Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek of Sweden

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Card readers are something noone of us really likes, but we still can’t live without them. After spending few years with Sandisk Extreme USB reader, it was time to get something faster. Only option was one of very few available Firewire800 readers.

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