The Beauty of the Power Game

A recent post on Red user net was about this stunning slow motion footage of women tennis players. The clips can be watched on the New York Times. These women are superb athletes.

There is also a related article "How Power Has Transformed Women’s Tennis" and a slide show "Women Who Hit hard".

The images were filmed with the new high speed Phantom FLEX camera from Vision Research. The camera can film 1080p full high definition video using the high frame rate of 2,800 fps.

Anthony Jarrett was immortalised

In 1987 I found this fantastic newspaper picture of Anthony Jarrett winning a race. He has this amazing expression on his face. So I made this small 1/4 life scale marquette one afternoon. It was done in clay and was drying out rapidly. Got some photos before it dried out. It's one I would love to have another go at sometime.