Evan Lysacek and his Shadow on Ice

The 2010 Stars On Ice Tour hit Chicagoland on May 8, 2010, playing to a packed house at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont IL.  As you might expect, there were a large cast of big names from the international skating community there, including hometown hero Evan Lysacek.  I was fortunate to secure a good shooting location for the event, with permission to use my favorite telephoto zoom and monopod.  I am providing pictures of Evan Lysacek from the event to the DuPage Figure Skating Club, which is Evan’s home skating club since he first started skating at the age of about 9.  That’s also the same figure skating club that my daughter belongs to.  There are some photos of Evan and other skaters in my photo gallery.

Thank you for your patience.  I had to sort through about 7,500 photos that I shot at the events, and narrowed it down to about the top 300, which are now posted online.  The great thing about having a camera that shoots almost 8 frames a second is that it is capable of capturing that one instant in time that makes the shot.  The not so great thing is sorting through all of the photos from before and after that one instant in time.  I hope you enjoy the photos.  After rejecting the “average” pictures I still have plenty of keepers to process from the event, but in the interest of time I cut myself off at 300.  Please do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions.

Visit the main gallery to see some of the show highlights.  Here is one of them, the lovely and talented Ms. Taylor Kulpa, 2010 Senior Ladies Upper Great Lakes Pewter Medalist. Please note that many photos that were previously online are no longerdue to a recent change in the photo hosting service I use. However I do still have many excellent photos from every event at the show, so please feel free to contact me if you are looking for something.

I’ve just managed to do a first sort through the photos from the dress rehearsal, and there are quite a few good ones that I am eager to put online.  Unfortunately it is going to take me awhile before I can get them processed and posted.  Please visit the gallery for the show, and you will be given an opportunity to enter your email address for notification when the photos are posted.  Here is a quick preview picture for you.

There are also some pictures available from previous shows.