Swimming used to be one of my worst sporting events to cover. Dark, humid and colorless, I dreaded having to shoot pictures with my old film cameras. That has changed with well-lit pools, colorful lane dividers, and better competition.

I photographed the Wenatchee Eastmont meet today and came back with some interesting pictures. I like this one the most because it conveyed the emotion of the event against the rival schools:

And this one that shows the speed of the swimmers as they travel through the water.

If we hadn’t run a diving photograph in Monday’s newspaper

I would have been temped to use one of the diving pictures I made just before the divers hit the water.

Swim meets have sure become a better subject for me.