Last photo post: A photographer’s winter Olympics

My former photo editor Troy Wayrynen shoots the Olympics every other year, lucky dog, and posted his images to this site. I wouldn’t normally post yet more photos, but what makes these ones interesting to you, dear students, are his captions. Troy explains what it took to get these photos — going for his own gold medal of sorts.

He tells us, the viewer, where he shot the photos and what camera he used to get the images.

Troy writes: “I kept low and kind of out of site so I could hold my position. My mind was so preoccupied by losing my position that I had a tough time getting sharp pictures of the skeleton start. I thought it was my camera or lens acting up at first. What it really was was concentration on the subject and keeping the focus point square on the helmet of each athlete. For anyone who thinks photography is a matter of pointing a camera and pushing a button I challenge you to try shooting skeleton.“