Josef “Jeff” Sipek

Edit: I just noticed that the photos’ aspect ratio is getting messed up by Wordpress. I am going to change the design soon to something that stretches from side to side in a browser window. Sorry for the (temporary) inconvenience.

Today my family and I, went to see an ice scating show, starring  Sarah Hughes and some other people:  Alexei Yagudin,  Todd Eldredge,  Stéphane Lambiel, Shae-Lynn Bourne, Caryn Kadavy,  Anton Sikharulidze & Elena Berezhnaya, and Kyoko Ina & John Zimmerman. There was also (so called singer)  Ashanti who “sang” some “songs.”

Of course, I had my camera, so I took a bunch of photos during the show (note: I didn’t actually do much to the photos, they are mostly cropped and resized, I will most likely fix them up to look better):

After the show itself, since we had VIP passes, we went to the party where we could get the skaters’ signatures. There I noticed one thing, the VIP passes looked exactly like the Media passes, except for a different color stipe and word Media instead of VIP, and both types had the tendency to flip over, showing the completely white side. So, I flipped mine over, took out my Nikon D70

and Nikon SB-800 (which when mounted on any SLR makes the whole thing look really serious)

and went to shoot some photos. Most people there were rather nice when they noticed the camera as I said “excuse me,” and passed them by. I don’t have any autographs, but some interesting photos - as I mentioned above, I should spend more time on these.

Going back to the what happened during the show…since when one skates, he destroys the ice and in a stadium setting the Zamboni is called in to fix things up:

There were TV cameras (the thing will air some time late January), the operator of the one closest to us, was just sitting there during the intermission, but the lighting behind him was intriguing, so I took a photo as well.