During the longer, more expensive running races like marathons and half-marathons, the race organizers usually allow a professional photographer to take pictures of the entrants and later offer to sell whichever prints the runner may want to buy. While I am running in these events, I do see these people from time to time, apparently looking right at me with their impressive looking cameras and ostensibly photographing me in the act of running past them. Sometimes I am bunched in with other runners and my race-tag number may not be openly visible, but usually I am by myself. And my entrant number is also clearly visible. So tell me, then...
Why is it that always, in the inevitable e-mails I get from these "pros" hawking their racing photos of me, they just didn't happen to get any pictures of me? It happens race after race after race. Since 2008 I have run many races, many of them supplied with a photographer for hire. But NOT ONCE has ANY of them been able to come up with ONE SINGLE photograph that they could sell me!
It reached the point of absurdity a few days ago when I received an e-mail from the photographer of the recent Ocala Marathon/Half-Marathon telling me my pictures were ready and would I like to view them. One problem, though: I didn't even show up to run the race!
These photographers seriously need to get their act together, especially in this age of convenient digital photography. After all, I could bring my own digital camera (or even my cellphone) and just ask a spectator to please take my picture. Nevertheless, I have entertained the notion of actually buying one of these professional photos of me running. But it's hard to do that when nothing's offered...
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