Amy Williams the Winter Olympic Gold Medalist in the skeleton returned home to Bath this afternoon and was welcomed with an open top bus parade through the city centre.
I grabbed my camera and dashed off to try and grab a good spot in amongst the thousands of well wishers. This proved more difficult than I first thought. There were literally thousand of people on the streets, union jacks being waved with a fair amount of enthusiasm. I felt it was important to make the flags part of the image as it really somed up the mood and feeling of the event.
Amy was surrounded in the bus by members of the media each competing for her attention, so unfortunately a lot of the time she was look back to the cameramen.
I think the shot the press will use will be of her up in the bus with the crowds behind her. I'm not expecting to make the papers this time but I was after a differnt image.
I waited on George street where the bulk of the flag wavers were waiting. I thought a great pic would be of the people and flags to the right of the frame out of focus with Amy in the bus to the left. In my mind it seemed the shot but when the bus came around the corner the scale seemed to be a bit wrong as she was quite small in the frame. Dam!
Its also important to get tight head shots/smiley face with the medal. I managed to fire off a few frames when Amy was looking directly at me which was good. I did have to crop quite a bit but as I was on a 200mm. I shot in RAW so still ended up with a big enough file size.
