Last weekend I had the honor to be asked to shoot the Race Cam image at The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The event was the Army Ten Miler race — 30,000 military, friends, family, and civilians came out this beautiful morning to run 10 miles through Arlington and D.C. My job was to capture as many of them as I could in a single (and huge) image.

This is not just a photograph — it’s a interactive 360 degree view of the race start, as well as the pentagon and surrounding area, as well as the Army Parachute squad overhead. The image is made up of about 300 different frames taken over the course of a few minutes. Click on the image to see the whole view.

Special thanks to Patty and the gang the Navy Federal Credit Union for making this possible. They want to get the word out that the NFCU is not just for Navy — members of all military branches and their families are eligible to join.

Special thanks to to the gang at Fancam for inviting me and for compositing all my images into the interactive application you see here! Thanks too to Corey and the gang at Replay Photos for making it easy!

Hooah!

Oh, yeah… I got to drive this thing around. It’s kind of a cross between a gocart and a 3 story elevator. This one is in the ‘up’ mode. My friend Howard had his in the down mode — that’s it in the upper background. Howard gave me the lessons on how to operate this beast.

I’ve attended a bunch of field hockey games this fall. It’s a great sport. It has broad worldwide appeal, but no so much in the US. It makes sense I’d shoot some pictures — and make the pictures available to the families and fans of the community…

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Nice game, nice game, nice game...

All the girls on the team are pretty much used to me on the sidelines taking pictures. That’s what makes pictures like this happen…

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I’ve shot a lot of pictures at these games. A few of them end up on Facebook, and some end up getting published in the Westport News. But most have stayed locked up in my computer. Until now.

This last week, i’ve gone through them all. I picked the 1200 best. They are all organized by game, and almost all are tagged with the players’ names so they can be searched. Then I went through them again, and again, to put together a slide show for end-of-season banquet. I got the number down to 600 for the slide show, but all 1200 up on my e-commerce site people can search, enjoy, and buy prints if they so choose. (Print sales, by the way, raise money for the Staples Field Hockey Booster Club — to pay for the many things the program does that the school can’t pay for.)

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Slight uniform change today.... pink socks.

I’ve been watching my daughter grow and play for some years now. She is now a Senior, as well as one of the captains of her amazing team at Staples High School. This will be her final week playing for Staples as her team competes in the State Championships, after winning the prestigious Fairfield County conference championships — and the road to that victory meant ending Darien High School’s 92 games in a row without a loss. She’ll go on… planning on playing club hockey in the winter and spring, then off to play Division 1 hockey next fall. I’m so proud!

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So, go to the store site here: store.ronhiner.com, and enjoy. Buy some prints, support the program.