Dan's Golden Ticket

I mentioned Dan Powers before. He's the photographer from the Appleton, WI Post-Crecent who is here as part of the Gannett contingent. Dan is a little wide-eyed like me since this is his first Olympics. He and I were talking earlier today about his opportunity yesterday to capture Michael Phelp's record-breaking 5th gold medal (he won a 6th one today). Dan's comment to me, which he makes in his own blog on the Post-Crescent's website, was that his experience photographing swimming to date has been high school sports. Wow...to go from that to capturing Phelps making Olympic history! What an opportunity. You can read Dan's own words here.