Thankx for sharing the great,,,,,,,Really feels pleasure to read,,, and great snaps.

Sports Illustrated photographer and Nikon user Robert Beck talks about how he gets his shots.

The story:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/02/19/si.photog/index.html?hpt=C2

The photos:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1002/olympics.robert.beck.best.shots/content.1.html

Hey..there are some really good shots from vancouver from a guy called delly carr on the nikon facebook page. looks like they're posting an album for everyday of the games: http://www.facebook.com/mynikonlife

NikoDoby said:
They are there to support journalist and NPS members.

I see that the time lapse was only of Nikon's set up so there was no TV copyright, lol. But of course Nikon isn't going to want the public to see how many crates they bring in etc. If they were going to have preproduction models floating around they would have never allowed him to set up the time lapse camera in the corner to begin with.

I see. That's pretty cool.

adamz said:
On event such as olympic, big companies like nikon, canon bring their stuff and rent them for free to photographers. Therefor they don't need to take big lenses with them from home.

...rent for free...? :D

On event such as olympic, big companies like nikon, canon bring their stuff and rent them for free to photographers. Therefor they don't need to take big lenses with them from home.

They are there to support journalist and NPS members.

I see that the time lapse was only of Nikon's set up so there was no TV copyright, lol. But of course Nikon isn't going to want the public to see how many crates they bring in etc. If they were going to have preproduction models floating around they would have never allowed him to set up the time lapse camera in the corner to begin with.

So did they hand out the cameras to journalists, or did they rent them out?

How'd that all work?

Or were they spare bodies for journalists with Nikon Professional Services just in case their personal camera bodies broke down?

Probably has more to do with TV copyrights.

So who decides who gets the keys to those mesh cabinets? :^)

Interesting behind the scene report:

http://www.scottdiussa.com/Scott_Diussa/Vancouver_2010/Entries/2010/2/4_A_Busy_Start....html

For some reason they removed the time lapse video of the setup: http://bit.ly/aN31tz maybe some new Nikon models got caught on tape? :)

astrophotographer said:
Your comment reminded me of the poster from despair.com

http://www.despair.com/leaders.html

HAHA LOL!

aesnakes - I love your composition and background. Beautiful!

last one for the month, close up shot of the sandhill crane.

Gentoo said:
I'm jealous of these eagle shots. Not only because I don't have these around here but they are also good shots.

Your comment reminded me of the poster from despair.com

http://www.despair.com/leaders.html

Thanks bland. I was trying to give others a chance to post more before I did again but I guess not so here goes another:

Steller's Jay in San Francisco. Weird angle but I like it anyway.

Wonderful shots, Gentoo. I've never seen detail in bird shots like that before.

Hey Jonny that's some stunning perspective and B&W treatment.

4 image panorama @ 50mm and F/6.3

Thanks, Rob!

wow I love this. It almost looks like a bleach bypass was used on it. The subtle blue and the roadway up to the mountains its great. The contrast is nice too, almost splits the image in half or top an bottom or whatever. great work.

I'm jealous of these eagle shots. Not only because I don't have these around here but they are also good shots.

PacificEagle and Gentoo your pics are so sharp. Makes me strive to better my photos.

Here is another eagle I have a few of them up on flickr I dont want to bombard the forum with eagles lol.

Mew Gull

Pacific Eagle those are nice Black Oystercatcher shots.

adamz said:
nice one Rob, great capture, nice timing... one of the best eagle photos on this forum so far

I agree

I was out at 3rd beach in Stanley park a couple of days ago and caught some Oyster Catchers in the Surf.