2007 Galleries

Flrunners.com Middle School T&F State Championship : Photos 6514-7527 (D40) and 6079-6246 (D70), 1714MB total, have been uploaded. They (hopefully) auto-sorted chronologically. D40 photos 6801-6930 (from the Girls'/Boys' 3000m runs) are all overexposed, aka ruined. I accidentally moved the shooting mode dial from aperture priority to manual while I was scampering back and forth across the infield during the Girls' race from the 1Km point to the 1600m. (Nikon unfortunately moved that "dial of photographic death" from the left side on the D70 to under my right thumb on the D40.) Anyway, I didn't notice my faux pas till after the conclusion of the Boys' 3Km. Doh! I'm pretty sure even Photoshop won't help with these. They're getting uploaded anyway. You can get 3Km splits from the exif metadata. So those fried photos may be useful in that way. Results: http://www.milesplit.com/meet/21225 More (and probably better) photos here: http://www.milesplit.com/gallery/890 Thanks to Flrunners.com's Jason Byrne jason@flrunners.com for allowing me full field access to take these photos. If you enjoy the photos, if you think the Flrunners.com MS Regional/State meets are a great idea, or if you just want to send Jason an attaboy, please do so. Better yet, donate: http://flrunners.milesplit.com/donations.php Information about the great Flrunners.com Middle School T&F meets: http://fl.milesplit.com/mstrackchampionship/ Please send anyone you know who's missing out on this wonderful concept a copy of the handbook: http://fl.milesplit.com/mstrackchampionship/handbook.pdf Location of this meet: http://tinyurl.com/yurdpc THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

Flrunners.com Middle School T&F State Championship

Photos 6514-7527 (D40) and 6079-6246 (D70), 1714MB total, have been up ...

Updated: May 07, 2007 12:11pm PST

2007 FHSAA 1A Track & Field Finals : Photos 6405-6513 (D40) and 5542-6078 (D70), 931MB, from the FRIDAY, 27 April 1A FHSAA T&F Finals held at Winter Park's Showalter Field. "Published with permission of FHSAA. Reproduction of photographs for purposes other than personal entertainment is prohibited. All rights reserved." Note that visitors may change the style of the gallery (click the "style" pulldown menu at the TOP of the page). I suggest you try the "ALL THUMBS" style to most quickly find what you might be looking for. If you don't change the gallery style, you may have 43 pages of 15 photos each to wade through. Alternately, look just above the photos and hover over the little triangle between "Page 1 of 43." A menu will drop down from which you may choose any page in the gallery. One of the conditions of my having requested and received FHSAA permission to post "State Series" photos is that they "must not be made available for sale." You may add comments to individual photos, and download photos (free). Results will be posted here: http://www.fhsaa.org/guest/track/state/1_results.asp More info here: http://www.fhsaa.org/tr/ I learn something new every day. E.g., if you eat an avocado using an "Emerson UTCOM-CQC-11-BT" as a utensil, your tongue may suffer for it. THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

2007 FHSAA 1A Track & Field Finals

Photos 6405-6513 (D40) and 5542-6078 (D70), 931MB, from the FRIDAY, 27 ...

Updated: Apr 27, 2007 10:40pm PST

Flrunners.com MS T&F Panhandle Regional Qualifier : FRIDAY, 13 April Regional Qualifier held at the Maclay School track. Thanks to Flrunners.com's Jason Byrne jason@flrunners.com for yet another forward-thinking idea! In this forum thread, Jason describes some difficulty with the concept: http://forums.milesplit.com/topic.php?id=34674 Information about these great Middle School T&F meets: http://fl.milesplit.com/mstrackchampionship/ What are we talking about here? Download the manual: http://fl.milesplit.com/mstrackchampionship/handbook.pdf MS State Championship, 5 May: http://fl.milesplit.com/mstrackchampionship/championship.html Flrunners.com MS State Meet location: http://tinyurl.com/yurdpc Photos 5285-5541 (D70, 344MB) and 5333-6384 (D40, 1.49GB) have been uploaded. I've done a minimal cull of the worst photos. Expect some blurred and poorly exposed shots to get posted anyway. It's like a photo documentary, ok? The big 70-200VR 2.8 is out of commission. So quality takes yet another hit. Thank goodness (photographically speaking) most of this meet was conducted in blazing sunlight. Of course that results in some lens flare and track glare on westward facing shots. 4X8 shots got some wacko looks with the ISO bumped all the way up to 1600. Oh well - beats blur (if I remember to open up the aperture). Might I suggest you download a full-res of anything you've got to have, "Photoshop" it and/or and try Noise Ninja http://www.picturecode.com/ or Neat Image http://www.neatimage.com/ Note that visitors may change the style of the gallery (click the "style" pulldown menu at the TOP of the page). I suggest you try the "ALL THUMBS" style to most quickly find what you might be looking for. If you don't change the gallery style, you may have 86 pages of 15 photos each to wade through. Alternately, look just above the photos and hover over the little triangle between "Page 1 of 86." A menu will drop down from which you may choose any page in the gallery. More photos AND videos, here: http://www.maclayrunners.com/ Thanks to Doug Covert and Jeff Swain! Results: http://www.milesplit.com/meet/21519 Endless thanks to the ever-patient (Godby HS Coach) Chris Sumner for his FOURTH day in a row of timing a track meet. Wow! I had to be at the HJ, so that's the only field event I photographed. Other field events were Shot, Discus, PV, LJ, and TJ. Running event order was: 4x400m 3000m 100mH (10 hurdles, Girls/Boys - 30"/33") 100m 1500m 4x100m 400m 800m 200mH (5 hurdles, Girls AND Boys 30") 200m 4x800m THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

Flrunners.com MS T&F Panhandle Regional Qualifier

FRIDAY, 13 April Regional Qualifier held at the Maclay School track. T ...

Updated: Apr 17, 2007 2:38am PST

2007 FHSAA District 2A-2 Track & Field Meet : Photos 4873-5332 (D40) and 4913-5284 (D70), ~1.1GB, from the THURSDAY, 12 April 2A District 2 T&F Meet held at the Florida High School track facility. Many thanks to Florida High Coach Jared Hickman for allowing full facility access! "Published with permission of FHSAA. Reproduction of photographs for purposes other than personal entertainment is prohibited. All rights reserved." Note that visitors may change the style of the gallery (click the "style" pulldown menu at the TOP of the page). I suggest you try the "ALL THUMBS" style to most quickly find what you might be looking for. If you don't change the gallery style, you may have 54 pages of 15 photos each to wade through. One of the conditions of my having requested and received FHSAA permission to post "State Series" photos is that they "must not be made available for sale." You may add comments to individual photos, and download photos (free). District results will be posted here: http://www.fhsaa.org/guest/track/district/ Official "State Series" T&F information, here: http://www.fhsaa.org/tr/ THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

2007 FHSAA District 2A-2 Track & Field Meet

Photos 4873-5332 (D40) and 4913-5284 (D70), ~1.1GB, from the THURSDAY, ...

Updated: Apr 14, 2007 6:36am PST

2007 FHSAA District 1A-3 Track & Field Meet : Photos 4546-4872 (D40) and 4760-4912 (D70) from the TUESDAY, 10 April 1A District 3 T&F Meet held at the Maclay School track facility. "Published with permission of FHSAA. Reproduction of photographs for purposes other than personal entertainment is prohibited. All rights reserved." Note that visitors may change the style of the gallery (click the "style" pulldown menu at the TOP of the page). I suggest you try the "ALL THUMBS" style to most quickly find what you might be looking for. If you don't change the gallery style, you may have 27 pages of 15 photos each to wade through. One of the conditions of my having requested and received FHSAA permission to post "State Series" photos is that they "must not be made available for sale." You may add comments to individual photos, and download photos (free). Results: http://www.fhsaa.org/guest/track/district/1_3.asp As they occur, other District results will be posted here: http://www.fhsaa.org/guest/track/district/ Official "State Series" T&F information, here: http://www.fhsaa.org/tr/ THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

2007 FHSAA District 1A-3 Track & Field Meet

Photos 4546-4872 (D40) and 4760-4912 (D70) from the TUESDAY, 10 April ...

Updated: Apr 11, 2007 9:11am PST

Chiles HS Capital City Classic : ~900 photos (1348MB) from the SATURDAY, 7 April meet hosted by Chiles High School. Lots of lens and/or battery misadventures kept me from getting more shots where we would have wanted them. I worked from two cameras. Some will likely get posted out of chronological order. I only did a cursory cull job before posting. So there'll undoubtedly be some out of focus, etc. I'll just stick with the "Well, Granny may want to see it anyway" excuse, ok? Thanks as always for Chiles Coach Scott Gowan's cooperation in allowing me complete access. A spring chill with gusty winds made many marks that much more impressive. Note that visitors may change the style of the gallery (click the "style" pulldown menu at the TOP of the page). I suggest you try the "ALL THUMBS" style to most quickly find what you might be looking for. If you don't change the gallery style, you may have ~60 pages of 15 photos each to wade through. You may add comments to individual photos, and download photos (free). Results: http://www.milesplit.com/meet/21163 THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

Chiles HS Capital City Classic

~900 photos (1348MB) from the SATURDAY, 7 April meet hosted by Chiles ...

Updated: Apr 08, 2007 6:35pm PST

FSU Relays : Sorry I didn't get a better angle on much of the competition. Despite requesting and receiving permission from the facilities manager, I was thrown out of the track infield Friday by one of the FSU T&F officials. Gee, I'm uncredentialed and I don't charge folks for these photos. That pretty much defines "unprofessional." I do appreciate the kind words of support from former FSU Coach Terry Long. More significantly, the area pole vault community lost our best friend today. Coach Kurt Westfall passed away. Updates have been posted here, detailing the news since his stroke Friday, 23 March: http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/gallery/1319175 IMPORTANT! You will be better off if you change the gallery "style" (top-right pulldown menu) from the default "smugmug" to ALL THUMBS! If you fail to do this, you'll be wading through as many as 100 pages of shots, 9 to a page. (Friday) D70 shots courtesy of: Bill Sweeney (3200m photos) and Maria Harper (Boys' HS PV). D40 shots continue to be vexed by some CPU lens glitches. Bear with me till I get the big lens sorted out. Meet results: http://www.halfmiletiming.com/Datafiles/Spring2007/FSURelays07/LiveResults/ THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

FSU Relays

Sorry I didn't get a better angle on much of the competition. Despite ...

Updated: Apr 01, 2007 11:45am PST

Maclay Middle School Meet #2 : Photos 2963-3363 from the THURSDAY, 29 March Middle School Meet #2 at the Maclay School track. Events were: Shot Put (Girls/boys, 6lb/4kg) HJ (Boys/girls) LJ (Girls/boys) 100m 1600m 4X100m 200m hurdles (30" for all, 5 hurdles USATF-style) 800m 4X400m Sorry about the intermittent overexposure problems with the big lens! Hopefully off for repair over the summer. THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

Maclay Middle School Meet #2

Photos 2963-3363 from the THURSDAY, 29 March Middle School Meet #2 at ...

Updated: Mar 30, 2007 10:53am PST

Special Olympics Area 3 Games : Something like 450 shots taken at the Games held SATURDAY, 17 March, at the Godby HS Track. So St. Patty's Day green was all around! Looking for the "Special Olympics 1K/5K" gallery? It's here: http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/gallery/2401227 IMPORTANT! You will be better off if you change the gallery "style" (top-right pulldown menu) from the default "smugmug" to ALL THUMBS! Then click any individual photo for a larger view, or to save any photos. Thanks to Terry Massa for the invitation to shoot this wonderful event: http://www.sofl-leon.org/Area_Games.html More media coverage here: http://www.wctv6.com/news/headlines/6554657.html http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703180327 THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

Special Olympics Area 3 Games

Something like 450 shots taken at the Games held SATURDAY, 17 March, a ...

Updated: Mar 18, 2007 8:12am PST

Maclay Bring Your Best Meet : An assortment of 327 photos - #2342-2620 (D40) and #3868-3919 (D70) - from the 16 March pre-Spring Break morning/early afternoon meet held at Maclay School. The preferred 70-200 2.8 was out of circulation, so lens options were less than optimal. As is inevitably the case when I work from multiple cameras w/o synchronizing the clocks, some of these will end up out of chronological order. Next stop on the St. Patty's Day Weekend whirlwind tour: the SATURDAY, 17 March Special Olympics T&F Meet at the Godby HS track: www.sofl-leon.org Photos from the Special Olympics Area 3 Games are here: http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/gallery/2592144 Results here: http://mirror.milesplit.com/meet/results/44180 See www.maclayrunners.com Webmaster Doug Covert's photos AND videos here: http://homepage.mac.com/dugco/MaclayTnF2007/PhotoAlbum35.html THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

Maclay Bring Your Best Meet

An assortment of 327 photos - #2342-2620 (D40) and #3868-3919 (D70) - ...

Updated: Mar 17, 2007 6:22pm PST

Maclay Running Fun 2007 : I'm assembling an assortment of photos I've neglected to upload this year. Some captioning coming . . . THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

Maclay Running Fun 2007

I'm assembling an assortment of photos I've neglected to upload this y ...

Updated: Mar 17, 2007 4:46am PST

Bolles Bulldog Classic : Endless thanks to Bolles School Coaches Dan Dearing and Tony Ryan for full access to the track venue. These gentlemen are the real deal, a couple of Florida T&F/XC heroes. If all the coaches and "governors of the sport" demonstrated concern for the kids like these guys, the sport would be advanced so much more. Thanks, fellas! Results here: http://www.milesplit.com/meet/20713 Some captioning/comment coming as I wade through 1333 (1.8GB) of photos from 2 cameras. Photos uploaded are #3617-3865 (D70), and #1237-2339 (D40). Be aware that some may end up in the gallery out of chronological order. Note to those looking at EXIF data: the D70's clock was about one hour ahead of the D40's. Last event I was able to photograph was the Boys' 3200m. Had to run to the bus shortly after to beat our curfew back in Tallahassee. So sorry, no 4X400m photos. IMPORTANT! You will be better off if you change the gallery "style" (top-right pulldown menu) from the default "smugmug" to ALL THUMBS! If you fail to do this, you'll be wading through as many as 149 pages of shots, 9 to a page. By now, those who've suffered through my galleries know I may just post nearly everything. Including those that any self-respecting photographer would have deleted in-camera. Of course, real photographers have sufficient skills to comprehend concepts like composition, focus, exposure . . . I'm not painting with light here, ok? I'm just a runner with a camera or two, documenting a really nice event, merrily snapping away with semi-cooperative camera gear and zero training. I don't think much can be done with the "fried" shots or the night-blurred ones. You may wish to try your luck with Photoshop/etc or Noise Ninja/Neat Image: http://www.picturecode.com/ (Noise Ninja) http://www.neatimage.com/ If I edit before posting, it takes too long, ok? I do post the full sized shots that I'd set in-camera. I don't normally compress anything any further. So at least you'll have a pretty good-sized lousy looking file to work with! Away we go. THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

Bolles Bulldog Classic

Endless thanks to Bolles School Coaches Dan Dearing and Tony Ryan for ...

Updated: Mar 11, 2007 7:29pm PST

Jesse Forbes T&F Invitational - Godby HS : I had nearly 1000 shots to go through. Many were not salvageable due to some technical woes. I've uploaded everything anyway, including the overexposed/fried and blurred (night) shots. Note how the quality falls off rapidly as we move through the meet. The big lens needs to go back to Nikon for repair. And the newer (undamaged) camera body had the battery die early on in the meet. Sweet. (What is this - a MySpace whine session?!) I fiddled with the overexposed/fried shots. Still bad but they uploaded faster as they're smaller files. Maybe someone's grandma will want to see those, burned or not. Night shots without my flash (didn't have batteries for the flash) are even worse. Same story - uploaded smaller files. Because I used two cameras interchangeably during some races, certain photos will undoubtedly end up out of sequence. You win a cigar if you can spot those. (Tip: the camera internal clocks were not synchronized before the shoot.) Remember kids - real photographers (as distinguished from a runner with a camera) actually respect and know how to use their equipment. They don't attempt things like simultaneously getting splits with one hand, while holding a heavy 70-200 2.8 with the other and snapping merrily away, having accidentally bumped the focus area button and multi-selector wheel. Doh! Note that visitors may change the style of the gallery (click the "style" pulldown menu at the TOP of the page). I suggest you try the "ALL THUMBS" style to most quickly find what you might be looking for. If you don't change the gallery style, you may have 65 pages of 15 photos each to wade through. You may add comments to individual photos, and download photos (free). Results here: http://www.milesplit.com/meet/20908 THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

Jesse Forbes T&F Invitational - Godby HS

I had nearly 1000 shots to go through. Many were not salvageable due t ...

Updated: Mar 05, 2007 6:27am PST

Maclay Small Schools T&F Open : SATURDAY, 24 February, Maclay School Track. As is typical for me, I uploaded the mediocre, the out-of-focus, and the just plain bad. I was busy with the morning's HJ. So, sorry - no photos from the field events, 4X800s, and consolation 1600/4X100/400s. FEEL FREE to change the gallery "style" (pull-down menu top-right of this page). "All thumbs" style helps navigate through the 420 shots. If you do not change the gallery style, be aware you'll be wading through 28 gallery pages. Please send me any ID/corrections/suggestions for this gallery. You may figure "do-it-yourself" splits from the exif data available for all photos. (E.g. Time at split minus Time at start = Split time.) More photos from www.maclayrunners.com Webmaster Doug here: http://homepage.mac.com/dugco/MaclayTnF2007/PhotoAlbum28.html Results: http://mirror.milesplit.com/meet/results/43535 THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin joka51@juno.com "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks "Pugsley: It's how I roll" http://www.surlybikes.com/pugsley.html http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/ (Home page of this site)

Maclay Small Schools T&F Open

SATURDAY, 24 February, Maclay School Track. As is typical for me, I up ...

Updated: Feb 25, 2007 3:07am PST