Showing posts with label arata. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arata. Show all posts

Thursday, September 8, 2011

us open 2011: from the pit

well not really, the "pit" because on court 17 there is no photographer's pit. just media seating in the first row.

i'd been snuggled into a seat in row 2 and loved it when, toward the end of the first set of dolgo/dr. ivo, the pros showed up with the big guns.

there is one photographer who i see every year, and i couldn't resist asking his name.
meet "arata" (in photographer in the middle).



i think i threw him off a little when i introduced myself--he seemed a little embarrassed.
but then he was back to covering the scene: