Had the morning off from shooting so I caught up on some sleep and spent time chatting with friends back in the states on instant messenger before heading off to shoot the womens water polo …

I began my morning (which I was supposed to have off) by heading out to shoot the supposedly undefeatable U.S. Softball team.  It was generally assumed the U.S.A. would demoralize every team they played on …

Photographer Mark J. Rebilas had to hustle to cover wrestling, water polo and beach volleyball at the 2008 Olympic Games. Check out his photos and his thoughts.

I started my day off by spending over an hour backing up images to my LaCie 500gig external hard drive since my macbook pro was down to less than a gig of memory. Due to …

It was a relatively light day of two events to be covered. Began the day shooting some volleyball. When I arrived at the venue I noticed one of our other photographers there so I left …

Check out this sweet page where you can scroll around and get a full 360 degree view from the photographer’s perch just before the men’s 100 meter race in Beijing.

As with most days since the Olympics began I started my day off shooting gymnastics. This time it was the men’s individual all around competition. And once again it was an ass whipping by the …

I started my day off at Gymnastics to shoot the women’s team all around final. China and USA were projected to go head to head for the gold and they certainly lived up to the …

Photographer Mark J. Rebilas describes shooting Michael Phelps, Jason Lezak and the U.S. Swim Team during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Today was a very busy and tiring day but also very productive. With sight seeing as well as shooting some venue features I put in about 14 hours. After waking up around 8 a.m. I hung …

After a 12-hour flight from San Francisco I am finally in Beijing. I got very lucky with the flight, due to an hour delay and having to rego through security to access the international terminal …

So after over a year of planning and waiting I am about to leave the country for 3 weeks to cover the worlds biggest sporting event. One would think I’d be incredibly excited but to …

Photographer Mark J. Rebilas will blog about his experience shooting the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.