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Aquatic Centre

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:59:12 -0700

Just after arriving at the London 2012 Olympic Park via the Stratford Gate, this was the view of the Aquatics Centre with the Orbit rising up behind it.

EOS 40D ~ 17-40L @ 17mm ~ 1/320 ~ f6.3 ~ ISO200 ~ Av mode.

Winner

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:16:43 -0700

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Here is my final shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is Italian Daniele Lupo hitting a winner during the round of 16 match (with partner Paolo Nicolai) against Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser of America. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 150mm ~ 1/2500 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO200 ~ Av mode.

Saved

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:55:58 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is Italian Daniele Lupo diving to keep the ball in play during the round of 16 match (with partner Paolo Nicolai) against Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser of America. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 150mm ~ 1/3200 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO200 ~ Av mode.

Diving

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:40:31 -0700

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Set

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Fri, 10 May 2013 04:56:45 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is American Phil Dalhausser playing a set shot during the round of 16 match (with partner Todd Rogers) against Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo of Italy. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 150mm ~ 1/3200 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO200 ~ Av mode.

Dig

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:36:21 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is American Todd Rogers playing a dig shot during the round of 16 match (with partner Phil Dalhausser) against Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo of Italy. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 150mm ~ 1/2500 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO200 ~ Av mode.

Painting the Games

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Wed, 08 May 2013 03:17:29 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is an artist on the roof painting the scene at Horseguards Parade as Americans Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser took on Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo of Italy. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 115mm ~ 1/2500 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.

Beach Volleyball

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Fri, 03 May 2013 04:08:56 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. The match taking place is a mens round of 16 match between Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser of America and Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo of Italy. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

HTC Desire S ~ 4mm ~ ISO75.

Arch Your Back

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:49:36 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is American Phil Dalhausser serving during the round of 16 match (with partner Todd Rogers) against Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo of Italy. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 200mm ~ 1/2500 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.

Paolo Nicolai Serving

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:51:28 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This shot is of Italian Paolo Nicolai serving during the round of 16 match (with partner Daniele Lupo) against Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser of America. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 200mm ~ 1/3200 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.

Dalhausser Serving

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:52:09 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. In fact this is the 'original' version of my previous post which I'd cropped and done a little cloning out of Todd Rogers. I prefer the cropped version but this one does show the height of the leap a bit better. This is probably my favourite of my beach volleyball images and is of American Phil Dalhausser serving during the round of 16 match (with partner Todd Rogers) against Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo of Italy. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 200mm ~ 1/1600 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.

Jump High and Serve

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:53:18 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is probably my favourite of my beach volleyball images and is of American Phil Dalhausser serving during the round of 16 match (with partner Todd Rogers) against Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo of Italy. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 200mm ~ 1/1600 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.

Daniele Lupo

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:39:43 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is Italian Daniele Lupo practising his serve during the round of 16 match (with partner Paolo Nicolai) against Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser of America. The Italian pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-17 21-19) but they then lost in the quarter final.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 200mm ~ 1/4000 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.

Out of Reach

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:31:51 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is the American pair of April Ross (in the red hat) and Jennifer Kessy (in the white hat) during their round of 16 match against Simone Kuhn and Nadine Zumkehr of Switzerland. The US pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-15 21-19) and they then went on to take the silver medal.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 200mm ~ 1/5000 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.

Swiss Serve

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:15:28 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is Nadine Zumkehr of Switzerland serving against April Ross and Jennifer Kessy of the USA. Ross and Kessy won the silver medal in the women's event. In this round of 16 match against Zumkehr and her partner Simone Kuhn the final score was 2-0 (21-15 21-19) in favour of the American pair.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 200mm ~ 1/5000 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.

Ross & Kessy -v- Kuhn & Zumkehr

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:26:58 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. The match taking place is a ladies round of 16 match between April Ross and Jennifer Kessy of America and Simone Kuhn and Nadine Zumkehr of Switzerland. The US pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-15 21-19) and they then went on to take the silver medal.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 17-40L @ 17mm ~ 1/640 ~ f5.6 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.

Capacity Crowd at the Beach Volleyball

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:00:16 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is a panorama made up of 9 portrait orientation shots stitched together with PTGui. The match taking place is a ladies round of 16 match between April Ross and Jennifer Kessy of America and Simone Kuhn and Nadine Zumkehr of Switzerland. The US pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-15 21-19) and they then went on to take the silver medal.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 17-40L @ 17mm ~ 1/640, 1/800, 1/1000, 1/1600, 1/1600, 1/1250, 1/1000, 1/500, 1/500 ~ f4 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.

Get It Over

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:17:02 -0700

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Attack

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 02:25:44 -0700

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Beach Bums

nobody@flickr.com (► Hammer Head ◄) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:18:51 -0700

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Here is my next shot from the London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball session that we attended. This is the Swiss pair of Simone Kuhn (on the right) and Nadine Zumkehr (on the left) during their round of 16 match against April Ross and Jennifer Kessy of America. The US pair won the match. The final score was 2-0 (21-15 21-19) and they then went on to take the silver medal.

Each evening of the games we logged on to the ticketing website and attempted to get tickets for various events that had more tickets being released. After entering the details of what you wanted you had to leave the PC for around an hour while it went through the motions and then decided there was nothing left! On just the one occasion tickets came available....and I almost fell off the sofa. So at 11.30pm the night before we secured three tickets for the beach volleyball. An afternoon off work was swiftly arranged and off we went.

When we arrived we found that our tickets (block 211, row 31, seats 212-214) were for the press area that had been released when it was realised that they wouldn't be used. The view was very good and we watched one women's and one men's match. Both were close, but not quite close enough and were finished in 2 sets each rather than going to three.

EOS 40D ~ 70-200L @ 200mm ~ 1/5000 ~ f2.8 ~ ISO100 ~ Av mode.