Speed Skating, Russia, 22-2-2014

I’m proud to present you with the best photos of the Olympics… well, that’s surely a joke.
It’s true that these photos have a big help from the TV team in Sochi… But on the other hand, I framed them, I chose the moment, while they were skating or the images were in movement…  I didn’t simply copy the television image, but framed them, from the image passing in front of my eyes,  LIVE, as far as time is concerned. That is special for me, because painting has nothing to do with time, it’s the opposite, it’s beyond time. Of course for photographers this is obvious, but for me it was a first experience, of what it must feel like for the photographers to be able to make such good photos of a moment, an action and a story unique, in a unique moment — I mean their good photos, images and film.
The TV superb cameras and the beautiful colours contributed to this art-moment, in which even something I don’t like (sport), became art, and it’s beauty revealed itself to me.

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Holandeses: Patinagem

To begin with, the photos.
I’ll come later to write a text in english too.

Como prometido ontem, aqui vos apresento algumas das fotos dos desportistas em plena acção ao vivo. :)
Com uma ajuda da equipa de fotografia in loco ;), tendo re-descoberto que o meu computador sendo grande demais para estar em Sochi, tem uma câmara … a longa distância… ;)
Não se trata do número 3… :) não se trata de tirar fotos do êcran, tratou-se de fotografar os desportistas através do êcran !
É bem verdade que os profissionais lá em Sochi fizeram um bom trabalho (às vezes super lindo)…  gostei da experiência e gosto muito de algumas destas fotos, que não tenho tempo para comentar individualmente.
Estou curiosa de saber quanto tempo leva a conseguir fotos assim, sem que estejam já focadas e enquadradas por outros.

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Speed Skating in SOCHI, 2014 – gallery 1

Hi guys, here some photos of the Olympics in Sochi, Russia. There are more to come, some of them, tomorrow.

BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD – Фёдор Достоевский / Fiódor Dostoiévski, The Idiot

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