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• A Sunny Sunday Snowboarding: Shooting Action on the Lomo LC-A

  
  Sunday is considered the day of rest but when the sun is out and it's a bluebird day on the mountain there's no better time to rise early from bed to snap some 35mm action. With our eager eyes and an LC-A camera, we headed out with snowboarder Orla Doolin to the Burton Stash in Morzine one sunny Sunday morning... and here is the snowboarding we snapped.
  February 08, 2013 1 comment 6 likes

• Hockey Night Is Back In Canada!

  
  We've waited long enough, but hockey night is finally back in Canada. What better way to celebrate a good ol' Canadian tradition than heading out to the arena, a bar or a friend's house to catch the game!
  January 24, 2013 4 likes

• Rugby Team Reunites for Photo After 50 Years

  
  It may not be an athletic feat but the entire 1962 Portsmouth Grammar School rugby team incredibly beat one in a quarter million odds. After 50 years, the fellas agreed to catch up and flew in from all over the world to recreate their nostalgic group photo at their alma mater. Every single player from the team was alive and present!
  October 10, 2012 6 likes

• Montjuïc Olympic Ring 20 Years Later!

  
  Twenty years is a very long time but when it comes to the Olympic Spirit, 20 years is nothing. Join me on a walk down memory lane to remember those magnificent summer Olympics held in Barcelona 1992, and take a look how the Montjuïc Olympic Ring is still magnificent even after 20 years!
  September 05, 2012 2 comments 3 likes

• The Color Run Visits Australia

  
  The colorific 5K that is nation-wide known in the States is coming to visit Australia! If you're looking for a reason to start a health lifestyle with a 5K jog, this is the perfect event! Not only will you be healthy, you will have lots of fun too! Guaranteed!
  August 22, 2012 3 likes

• Tilt-Shift Photos of the 2012 Olympics

  
  See the world's biggest sporting event in miniaturized images! These scenes from the 2012 Olympic Games in London were shot by Reuters and Getty Images photographers using tilt-shift lenses, making athletes look like little toy figures battling it out in mini arenas.
  August 16, 2012 1 comment 10 likes

• Olympic Sites: London 2012's ExCel Centre

  
  The ExCel Centre in the East of London, has been a really important part of the London 2012 Olympics. Read on after the jump to find out why.
  August 14, 2012 2 comments 5 likes

• Witnessing the Olympic Torch Relay

  
  Last weekend saw the Olympic Torch Relay pass through my home town of Leeds, and I was close by the action with my trusty Canon EOS to capture the magic.
  August 12, 2012 1 comment 3 likes

• ★ Olympic Portraits Shot Using Century-Old Petzval Lens

  
  These portraits by L.A. Times photographer Jay L. Clendenin are interesting not just because they were shot using a large-format film camera outfitted with antique doublet lenses (possibly from 1840!), but also because he juxtaposed them with his colored digital captures. Which do you like better: old or new?
  August 10, 2012 3 comments 14 likes

• Athens: Olympics 1896 and 2004

  
  Athens has been the site of the Games of the I Olympiad, the first Olympic Games in modern times and the largest international sporting event of the 19th century. Recently, in 2004, Athens again hosted Olympic Games at a cost of 10 billion euros.
  August 08, 2012 5 comments 7 likes

• ★ Extreme Olympic Close-Ups

  
  How many of you are glued to your tellies for the 2012 Olympics? Anybody? Well, then get clued in on all the action you missed here! Instead of showing full-frame scenes of courts, rinks, pools, and rings, TIME has zoomed in on some of the World Game's poignant moments in tight shots that are quite literally "in your face."
  August 06, 2012 4 comments 18 likes

• Enjoy The Movements Of Athletes Within A Photograph!

  
  Multiple-exposure should be a familiar term for all Lomography Lovers! It is popular for its unexpected outcome and interesting composition of different items within a picture. Now, we can also enjoy the London Olympics through multiple-exposure pictures!
  August 06, 2012 1 like

• Lomography Supports Olympic Athlete, Tony Lomo!

  
  Representing the Solomon Islands in Men's Judo, Tony Lomo definitely has our full support! While he won his first qualifying match, he is no longer in the running for an Olympic medal this year. We've still got our eyes on him for the 2016 Olympics though. Lomo on, Tony Lomo!
  July 31, 2012 4 likes

• ★ Vintage Photos of Early Olympics

  
  Can you picture Olympic Games where women compete in full-length skirts instead of skin-tight bodysuits? How about runners taking more than 10 seconds to complete a hundred-meter dash? See them for yourself in these archived Olympic photos from 1936 and beyond.
  July 27, 2012 6 comments 6 likes

• ★ The First Modern Olympic Games

  
  Now that the London games are all set to open today, we bring you yet another teeny look at the pages of history to satisfy that curiosity about the first Olympic Games in the modern times.
  July 27, 2012 2 comments 5 likes

• ★ How Do Olympians Eat?

  
  Only five days left until the 2012 Summer Olympic Games begin and we're already hungry for the fast-paced photos our London Lomographers will be sharing with us! To get us pumped for the friendly competition, Reuters photographer Umit Bektas loads up on the lean and mean Olympic diets of Turkish athletes. See how the pros eat here!
  July 23, 2012 1 comment 4 likes

• ★ Keep Your Sport with Lomography

  
  In a week, the largest sporting event in the world will begin in London. It will run for barely a month and will host hundred of games with participants from all over the world! Swell, eh?
  July 22, 2012 9 comments 19 likes

• Wrestlers in the '80s

  
  The 2012 Olympic Games will be starting in a few weeks and we can't wait for the action-filled athletic spectacle! Since we're feeling rather sporty these days, we're sharing some hilarious pics of Memphis wrestlers from the '80s. Can you smelllll what they're cooking?!
  July 12, 2012 2 comments 5 likes

• US CitySlicker Hope: Skating Away the Louisiana Summer

  
  Even through the Louisiana heat and dodgy summer storms, kids and teenagers alike flock to the BREC skate park. BREC, or the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, redesigned the extreme sports park in the middle of Baton Rouge in late 2010. Its 52 acres of greatness include a BMX track, a rock climbing wall, and of course, the skate park. My Nikon FM10 and I trekked out there this month in honor of World Skateboarding Day to find out more about the skaters of the Greater Baton Rouge Area.
  June 22, 2012 3 comments 3 likes

• Basking at the Beach: Playing at the World Championships of Beach Ultimate

  
  You spend your holidays at the beach? Enjoy and bathe in the sun and then refresh yourself in the water? Well, that´s what most people do on the beach. Not me. Almost every time I travel to a beach I do this to do sports: I play Beach Ultimate. - Ultimate Frisbee played on the beach. Last year in August I played at the World Championships of Beach Ultimate in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. Read on how hard it is to run in the sun when everyone else on the beach is looking for shadow.
  May 25, 2012 1 comment 4 likes