2010 Winter Olympic Countdown

Richmond Olympic Oval Mar 13 2009 04_DSC4788, originally uploaded by VancouverDoug.

With just under three weeks to go till the start of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games here in Vancouver the excitement is certainly building. As various side streets close and become covered with temporary buildings and rows of spectactor seats the feeling of living within a fortress becomes nearly everpresent.

Over the next few days I'll be posting photos that were taken inside the Richmond Olympic Speed Skating oval during the March 2009 Essent ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships. After an afternoon of fast shooting hoping for the perfect shot I now have great respect for not only sports photographers and the big $15,000 lenses that they use but also how sexy women look skating away at high speed dressed in tight latex. Speed skaters have to be one of the hardest photo subjects in existence. :)