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Nancy Kerrigan at Tysons Corner Center

Ice Skaters with Nancy Kerrigan at Tysons Corner Center
Nancy Kerrigan at the entrance to Tysons Corner Center
Nancy Kerrigan at the entrance to Tysons Corner Center

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!

Ice Skaters with Nancy Kerrigan at Tysons Corner Center
Ice Skaters with Nancy Kerrigan at Tysons Corner Center

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.

Ice Skaters with Nancy Kerrigan at Tysons Corner Center
Ice Skaters with Nancy Kerrigan at Tysons Corner Center
Ice Skaters with Nancy Kerrigan at Tysons Corner Center
Ice Skaters with Nancy Kerrigan at Tysons Corner Center

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.

Nancy Kerrigan Meet and Greet at Tysons Corner Center
Nancy Kerrigan Meet and Greet at Tysons Corner Center

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!

Nancy Kerrigan Meet and Greet at Tysons Corner Center
Nancy Kerrigan Meet and Greet at Tysons Corner Center

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Ice-Skating Fashion Show

Skaters out on the ice skating rink on the Plaza at Tysons Corner Center
Skaters out on the ice skating rink on the Plaza at Tysons Corner Center

Tysons Corner Center

If anyone asked me if I would ever photograph and ice-skating fashion show, I would ask them to check their globes. This sounds like something that would happen in Canada or Norway, not in metropolitan DC. But here I was last January covering a fashion show held on the ice rink on the Plaza at Tysons Corner Center.

If any of the models look like they are cold, they were! I know because I was extremely cold. And with the large buildings going up around the Plaza, the wind was also a player in the extreme weather! These models were definitely troopers going through with the show in these conditions like they were out on a beach in the Caribbean.

While the models were changing and getting a little blood back into their extremities, the audience was treated to some talented ice skaters! They have a similar look to the ballroom dancers that I have a lot of experience covering, but they move so much faster! They have beautiful lines and lifts that look so daring from the sidelines. I tried to keep up with the skaters, but I would love the chance to photograph them again now that I know a little more of what to expect.

When I was given this assignment, I definitely went in with only a small amount of confidence that I would be able to pull it off. I had a few more frames that were not worth keeping. I should not think of it as a failure as I know my percentage of ‘keeper’ photos was much smaller from the ice skaters. That is the challenge of doing action photography. There are so many difference conditions and circumstances that you would not have the opportunity to set things up perfectly for the camera. But you bring as much knowledge as you can as the music starts to play, and you do your best. I’m still looking for the next time to be much better.

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