Lessons Learned
I love swimming. I love to swim, having started in age group swimming at 9 and continuing through high school. I had the privilege of swimming in college at a division 1 program. I never did reach all my performance goals, but my love for the sport only grew over the years. I met some amazing people and made great friends as well through the sport.
I love to watch other people swim. The best swimmers art like artists as they move through the water, efficiently moving, finding just the right angle for their hands, just the right tilt of their heads, employing just the right strategy to both mentally and physically overcome their competition. It’s the most beautiful sport in the world to me.
After being out of the water for about 10 years after college, I started back swimming on a local master’s team about 3 years ago, and again love it. There’s nothing like walking out of the pool early in the morning after finishing a hard workout, ready to face the day, invigorated.
Each year the City of Richardson holds a corporate challenge - a sort of olympics for the corporate world, for companies who have offices in Richardson. For the last few years (since I started swimming again) I’ve competed in the swimming portion for my company.
I captured some interesting shots from Monday night’s event, but being in an indoor pool with relatively low lighting and a lot of action really pushed my D50 and 50mm f/1.8 lens to their limits. Consequently I couldn’t get too many good action shots, but I did get some decent portraits. (I’d really love that 80-200mm f/2.8 AF lens about now!).
You can see some of shots on Zooomr - I’ll be adding more over the next few days.
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