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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPhotographer captures career-defining photo of Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt has been almost as famous for his posturing in front of the camera as he has been for his incredible sprinting.
Yet for all those thousands of poses, the photograph that defines his career has now been taken in the most unguarded of moments by sheer chance.
French photographer Olivier Morin was covering the 100m final in Moscow for AFP, and captured a magnificent picture of Bolt as his momentum saw him drift round the track following his win on Sunday night.
Morin snapped a shot that would have been a beautiful photograph on a dark and stormy night no matter what the circumstances.
But the photography gods saw to it that a bolt of lightning crackled down behind the stadium at the exact moment the picture was taken.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/photographer-captures-amazing-career-defining-photo-usain-bolt-080505318.html
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Photographer captures career-defining photo of Usain Bolt (Original Post)
dipsydoodle
Aug 2013
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stonecutter357
(12,696 posts)1. K&R
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,599 posts)2. The shot of a lifetime! n/t
madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)3. That is amazing!
DinahMoeHum
(21,784 posts)4. Put THAT on the Gatorade commercial !!!
BTW, here's the original song by Jake Bugg: "Lightning Bolt"
Cronus Protagonist
(15,574 posts)5. I didn't even notice the lightening
Until I read it, I was wondering why this boring shot is supposed to be the greatest picture. Now I know, and I'm still unimpressed.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)6. +1