We're Just Sayin: And With a Tear in My Eye

David Burnett:

Then the show started, Amazing, fantastic. All my adjectives fall short, as do my pictures. The creative minds which cobbled it together must have been extraordinary. The one thing I can tell you for sure: this operation was NOT put together by a bunch of consultants using their Blackberrys. In the last few minutes, when the medalist carry the torch started to ascend from the edge of the playing field, you could hear 80000 people say “Ahhh!” all at once. That is a sound you should hear at least once in your life. Then, tilting to the side, he became a slow motion runner, legs taking in ten, twenty feet at a stride. He lacked only a flickering light to make you think you were watching a film clip of the 1920 Olympic Games. As he started into the first turn, headed towards me (and my 200mm lens) I couldn’t see the image in the viewfinder, for the tears which were crawling down my face.

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