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World Figure Skating Championships: Pairs Free Skate (intro, post 1 of 5)

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It’s nearly a week late, but I finally finished editing the pairs free skate. Somehow I managed to get my priorities all messed up, such that I have far more photos of the earlier skaters (who placed lower in the … Continue reading

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World Figure Skating Championships: Pairs Short Program

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I did promise to get to the pairs eventually, right? It’s my favorite discipline, after all! The trouble is the competition schedule: by the time I had finished editing the ladies’ short it was already time for the men’s, and … Continue reading

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World Figure Skating Championships: Men’s Free Skate (photos, post 5 of 5)

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Group 4: Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) — 64 photos gold medalist Nathan Chen (USA) — 35 photos Boyang Jin (CHN) — 47 photos bronze medalist Patrick Chan (CAN) — 26 photos Shoma Uno (JPN) — 63 photos silver medalist Javier Fernández … Continue reading

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World Figure Skating Championships: Men’s Free Skate (photos, post 4 of 5)

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Group 3: Maxim Kovtun (RUS) — 33 photos Alexei Bychenko (ISR) — 16 photos Kevin Reynolds (CAN) — 24 photos Mikhail Kolyada (RUS) — 28 photos Jason Brown (USA) — 42 photos Denis Ten (KAZ) — 35 photos

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World Figure Skating Championships: Men’s Free Skate (photos, post 3 of 5)

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Group 2: Chafik Besseghier (FRA) — 49 photos Misha Ge (UZB) — 25 photos Michal Brezina (CZE) — 18 photos Deniss Vasiljevs (LAT) — 31 photos Brendan Kerry (AUS) — 24 photos Alexander Majorov (SWE) — 24 photos

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World Figure Skating Championships: Men’s Free Skate (photos, post 2 of 5)

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Group 1: Michael Christian Martinez (PHI) — 15 photos Jorik Hendrickx (BEL) — 27 photos Kenji Tanaka (JPN) — 35 photos Paul Fentz (GER) — 31 photos Julian Zhi Jie Yee (MAS) — 46 photos Moris Kvitelashvili (GEO) — 27 … Continue reading

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World Figure Skating Championships: Men’s Free Skate (intro, post 1 of 5)

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This is the first of five posts with my photos from the men’s free skate at this year’s World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki. See my intro post for the ladies’ free skate for some important caveats. Note that these … Continue reading

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World Figure Skating Championships: Ladies’ Short Program

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Hey, folks, I stayed up way too late editing photos after getting back from today’s pairs free skate so I could bring you yesterday’s ladies’ SP. I think I’m finally getting the hang of Lightroom after five years… Anyway, I … Continue reading

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The rest of the men from the day 2 practice at the World Figure Skating Championships

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Here are the rest of the men that I saw at the second day of practice (recall that I didn’t get to the arena at 6:15 AM like they did so I didn’t see the earliest groups of skaters). I’ll … Continue reading

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Thinking about Canada in 1988 and Finland in 2017…

I grew up during the 1980s at a ski area in Northern Vermont. One of the surprising ways this influenced who I turned out to be was through television: although there was and is an ABC affiliate in the television … Continue reading

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