Photographing the Olympics

If you’ve watched any of the Olympics, you’ve no doubt seen the masses of photographers covering the event. (All those lust-worthy white lenses.) Vincent Laforet is covering the games for Newsweek, and while I’ve known he’s been blogging about it, I really haven’t been keeping up with my feed reader lately (work has me pretty busy right now).

If you want a sense of what it’s like to cover the largest sporting event, go read his post that he filed on covering Phelps historic 8th medal win and the men’s fencing final. Looking at the photos he has up, he was in that scrum of photographers that Phelps climbed through to hug his mom and sister.