An Olympian Visits
Nancy Kerrigan will likely come to mind when you think of ice skating. She made the USA proud with her efforts on the Olympic teams in 1992 and 1994. For the first holiday season that Tysons Corner Center has their Plaza open to the public, they have a large ice rink installed. To open the rink for skating to the public, they had a show featuring some area ice skaters, and Nancy Kerrigan. What a way to open this exciting new installation!
I was inside covering other events inside the mall as I posted about previously. So I asked a photographer Nick Tettey from JB Elliott Photography to help me get photos of the ice show. To see his photos of the event, you can visit the Facebook page of Tysons Corner Center. I came outside to catch the end of the show which gave me the opportunity to see Nancy skating live. To see a professional that has practiced performing for large crowd for most of her life is a gift. You can tell the muscle memory she has built to do such complicated movements and to make them look effortless.
Meet and Greet
After their show was done, Nancy and her skaters came inside to get some nice photos together. The stage set up in the Concourse was a much better setting for photos than the very dark and cold ice skating rink setup out on the Plaza. So I setup a large strobe as high as I could get it on a light stand. From here, it was very easy to get nice photos of the group together with Nancy.
She was very generous with her time. Lots of people wanted to come up to get some selfies with her, and she did so nicely with everyone that waited to see her.
At the end of the event, Nancy took a lot of time to meet with an older gentleman that came to ask her what the event was about. In explaining all of his buttons that he wore on his jacket and hats, he said that he used to be a pilot that used to fly Air Force One! Nancy humbly told him that she used to skate for the USA. I really enjoyed seeing her interaction with him and how she succinctly summarized her amazing career!
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