Tom Theobald - Photographer
Pictures of the Day Review - 80's->90's New Gallery + Recent Pesaro WC 2010
(28Aug2010) (L-R) Belarus juniors Ksenya and Maria from Friday at Pesaro...they were just sitting next to me when I was working high angle in the arena. Just the moment happened =)
Honestly there are so many new names at this world cup with both juniors and seniors that I had to look hard to figure out just these two (plz correct if inaccurate). Gallery now uploading!=)
(02AUG2010) (L-R) Svetlana from Goodwill Games 1998 New York and Phoebe at US Olympic Trials Salt Lake City 1988. I was waiting for a 3rd photo of each and then the idea
to combine happened :). Slowly day-by-day am uploading 20-30-40-images at a time to the 80's-90's archive. This is taking awhile to edit through the 4000+ and get the caption info correct...
(27July2010) (1-2 on left) Natalia winning AA gold at 1983 Budapest and (right) fx split leap at 1985 Montreal. 22-photos of Natalia added recently to the 80's-90's archive.
(25July2010) This is Adriana from Goodwill Games 1986 at Moscow. At the time I didn't know very much about RG. Romanians were known mostly as brilliant AG gymnasts.
At Goodwill Games it was one of my first chances to make RG images (a few occasions before, eg. Konica Cup, Toronto 1985). There are also images coming in the new
80's-90's archive of Romanian teammate Florentina Butaru (early pioneer of flexibility in RG). Barely knew what I was photographing and it was all manual focus(whew!). -T
(20July2010) Hi mates, it's July and the RG scene is little bit quiet and so I have been working on images from wayyyyy back when I started with gymnastics photography.
Today's 'daypic' shows Julianne from early 1980's AG. To explain, back 25-30years (whoa!) I covered several major events in artistic gymnastics. In the coming weeks,
continues a project to upload film image scans, mostly in low-res, spanning the years 1981->1998. Out of 4000+ scans, this gallery may number to 1000+ image previews.
This was the era of film cameras, manual follow focus and so photographing moving gymnasts was a bit challenging(!). Yes, you will find a few RG images mixed in, yay!
Latest review image(s) (top) originally posted 28August2010 approx 0000hrs from Pesaro, Italy.
