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Long before I owned a drone, I was already searching for aerial perspectives.
Back then, one way to capture a photograph like this was to lean over the side of a bridge and point the camera straight down.
That's exactly what happened here.
This image was taken in 2006 at a triathlon held at Discovery Park in Sacramento, organized by Total Body Fitness. Looking back from twenty years later, some of the details have faded, but I clearly remember standing on the pedestrian bridge, watching wave after wave of swimmers pass beneath me.
It was one of my first outings with my new Nikon D70.
After spending more than a decade away from photography, I had finally purchased my first digital camera and was rediscovering the joy of making photos.
As a triathlete, triathlon eventually became one of my favorite subjects.
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