Day 5 Fencing

Fencing was the big event today. I had never really thought about shooting fencing but Mark Sappenfield was writing an article about Tim Morehouse who was fencing today and wanted something to go with the story.  I got there a bit early and figured out how best to view the matches and got some cool shots of other athletes.  Then I went next door to see table tennis have a go.  The ExCel building houses fencing, table tennis, boxing, badminton, judo, taekondo, wrestling, and weightlifting.  So there is a lot within a couple hundred yards.  Table tennis was cool to watch but difficult to shoot.  Then it was back to fencing as Tim was up at 12:30.  He was the underdog but came out clearly on top, winning 15-6 over a Russian.

I wandered the grounds of the Olympic Park looking for interesting people and activities to shoot.  In the middle of this my camera decided to act up.  Fortunately, Nikon has a help desk and I was good to go within about 10 minutes.