This is a brief excerpt from Strobist
To understand the impact this photo had on me when it first came out, you kinda have to get into the head of a Baltimore Sun photographer during the run-up to the 2004 Summer Olympics.For one thing, this is the only photo which has ever made me shout the F-word in a supermarket checkout line. So yeah, I have been waiting a long time for this BTS.Oh, and if that weren’t enough, there are two more Gregory Heisler vids inside, too… __________”A Week at f/11″Okay, so you can watch this first if you like. But it will probably help to know the context behind the supermarket expletive.In the run-up to the Phelps Gold Medal Orgy that was the 2004 Olympics, the Baltimore Sun was sparing no coverage for the Baltimore native. This was mostly courtesy photographers John Makely and Karl Ferron, who had shot him damn-near every way they could think of.Heck, we even ran a full-page horizontal underwater photo of Phelps. As in “you will now turn your newspaper sideways so we can run this edge-to-edge photo of Phelps even bigger.”Suffice to say we were pretty pleased with our photographic coverage. Until we saw this …
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