Chattanooga Waterfront Triathlon

12 July 2009's Triathlon, Chattanooga, Tennessee

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by John O'Keefe-Odom

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Photos from the triathlon near Ross' Landing in Chattanooga. Event was organized by Team Magic; runners unidentified, photos NFS. All photos Pentax K200D with FAJ 28-80mm AL lens; in-camera JPEGs for web. 120mm films still waiting for labs.

Woman Running Into Rain: Triathlete 1149.

Quadriceps, Woman Running: Triathlete 1149

Running: Triathlete 795

Running Uphill: Triathlete 794

Runners

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A Simpleviewer gallery with more photos is available here.

An Autoviewer slideshow of some of the highlights is available here.

Autoviewer and Simpleviewer are available here.

Working on Moving Mirrors

by John O'Keefe-Odom

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With support from a generous grant through the good folks at CreateHere, I've been able to get going on an instructional landscape photography book that features the beautiful Savage Gulf State Natural Area. My project is called Moving Mirrors because of the reflectiveness of water in motion blur photographs. Savage Gulf features a half a dozen waterfalls and generous opportunities to photograph the landscape.

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What's Actually In the Bag?

by John O'Keefe-Odom

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I saw my umpteenth photo of an "exemplary" pro photographer's camera bag today, and I thought that I'd go ahead and let you know what I actually carry on a day to day basis.  

With a quick walk-though of the list, I think you'll see that super-expensive, cutting edge equipment is not required for day-to-day photography.

The List, Up Front:

Pentax 645 120mm camera

Pentax 645 80-160mm zoom

Pentax 645 35mm lens

Pentax 645 Adapter K

Pentax K1000 35mm camera

Minolta Spotmeter F

Vivitar 285HV

PC Cords (6' coiled and Vivitar short cord)

Lee 4" Gel filters with holder

Plastic bag with spare rolls of film

Gray card

4 AA NiCad batteries

Spare body caps, rear lens caps, lens caps

Soft brush and soft cloth for cleaning

UV and polarizers fitted to lenses; one CC 85B on hand for use with EDUPE, a tungsten based Ektachrome slide film.

Camera bodies fitted with quick release plates for use with my tripod.

Cable release.

The Bag:  common daypack.

Miscellany:  scissors, changing bag, masking tape, bandages, compass.

Hand carried, frequently, one Manfrotto tripod with ball/pan head.

From there, I may add or subtract items as needed.  If you look carefully at the list, you might notice that what I carry is a fraction of the dollar value of a lot of the photobags on display here and there.  Some of the bags sold today might exceed the dollar value of my camera bodies.  I like the pictures I make with this equipment nonetheless.