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| Lolo Jones winning at Drake in 2005 |
CC: Which
track-and-field event do you find most challenging to photograph well?
DP: I would have
to say the pole vault, because there are so many different angles you can take.
The pole vault in the Jordon Creek Town Center Mall, which Drake added a few
years back, opened up a whole different angle, as I was able to view it from
above by photographing from the second level of the mall. I could also get very
close to the cross bar and shoot the event with a wider lens—something that was
impossible to do at Drake Stadium.
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| Kip Janvrin |
CC: Do you
have a favorite image among those included in the book? If so, what’s so
special about it for you?
DP: My favorite image is a very subtle
one, but a photo loaded with content. It shows former Iowa high school and
Drake University miler Matt Gabrielson extending his hand to Olympian and world
champion Bernard Lagat after the Special Mile in 2004 (p. 36). Gabrielson
wasn’t a world-class miler like Lagat, but he got the opportunity of a lifetime
to compete on the same track in the same race with one of his idols. Only at
the Drake Relays can Iowa kids take that journey from a small rural high school
to being on a grand stage with Olympians.
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