I had the pleasure yesterday of doing some backup photography for a run on Randall’s Island - a relatively large recreational island situated between Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan.

What you might notice about my page is that people is not something that I typically take photos of and certainly not action shots. As such I don’t really have the equipment to do this type of photography - I have a series of primes, more than half of which are manual focus. As you might imagine, shooting folks running with a manual lens is not easy. However, I was just played backup to another photographer so it wasn’t a huge issue.

And of course I got a couple keepers:

I did get a chance to do some other photography while I was out there, as the island has been nicely maintained and they have a great variety of plants and flowers. So as I was walking back from taking photos of the runners, I took a couple shots for myself.

You can see the results below: