Friday 14 July 2006

2006 Jnr World Champs - Comp Day 1

 


These two articles written by Mr Brown, sprinkled with photos from me give a fabulous feel for our team's performance:

Morning - "3 Bronze's in Patterns!"

Afternoon - "Giant killer female team wins silver, team pattern!"

Saturday 29/8/2020: In compiling this historic content I discovered that I had a whole lot of images missing from the day. This was the first international event that I'd covered and I was also learning quickly what was important to photograph but had a long way to go. I saw photos of mine on the articles in the links above that weren't in my library. I looked on one of my archive Hard Drives and they weren't there either. So, out came the CDs from 2006. However, at this stage we don't have a computer capable of reading a CDROM. I'll have to try a machine at work next week. [Sunday: I borrowed a portable CD ROM drive from a friend and recovered the missing images. They included much of the afternoon with male and female team patterns performances, Jess and David's pre-arranged sparring plus male special technique with Chris, Sam and Shane.

My top pics of the day....

An overview of the day (including all performances)...

500 images from the day for those wanting to see their performance in more detail...


Thursday 13 July 2006

Weigh In Day

 

The day many of those dieting to get into their target weight have been holding out for... and a chance to eye up the competition for the first time.

Mr Brown's report - part 1 and part 2

Images...

Tuesday 11 July 2006

Exploring and Splashing About

 

Today the team splash about in the pool before breaking into groups. I took the trip out with others in a couple of vans to take up up a historic mountain with a view of the city.

Mr Gwyn Brown tells more here...

And the next day I must have taken a break from photography with Mr Brown reporting this...

The best photos here...

Lots of photos here...

Saturday 8 July 2006

Houston Training in the Car Park

 

It was hot but the team needed to train so the covered hotel car park was chosen. I loved the raw look of it, with bright side lighting, and an almost ghetto look. I captured some long time personal favourite images here.

Images (best)...

Images (the rest)...

Report by Mr Gwyn Brown about the day with photos...

Friday 7 July 2006