All these pictures were taken with an Olympus D-500L digital camera. They were taken into Adobe Photoshop for trimming and resizing. Some were further modified with the Intellihance plugin.
All these pictures were taken without the flash (even though the camera complained that it really, really needed the extra light). I just don't like the idea of using flash, as it distracts the athletes
The lights in the gym for this tournament were really low except at two mats, so those are the ones where I took the pictures. I missed some good matches on other mats, but the light wasn't as good there. This brings to mind an old Sufi story:
A man walking at night saw his friend, the Mullah Nasrudin, on his hands and knees near a streetlight.Back to Gallery Page 25"What are you doing, Nasrudin?" he asked.
"I'm looking for my keys. I lost them over there," said Nasrudin, pointing to a dark alley about five meters away.
"If you lost them there, why aren't you looking over there?"
"Because the light is better here."