U.S. Figure Skating Championships
January 12-18, 2003
Dallas, Texas
Description of my week at the Championships.
Photo Pages
Except for Michelle Kwan and Sarah Hughes, the photos of skaters on the ice are not arranged in any order, and in many cases, I don't even know, or I am unsure of, their names. I'm terrible with faces. (Please don't bother sending names to me because I don't have the time to caption them all. If you know who they are, great.)
Please be aware that I used the 2003 National Championships to field test my new digital camera, and my photos got better as the week went on. You should know that in all the photos I took during the first five days, the ice has a dirty gray hue and the skaters sometimes look like they're in shadow. This is because I didn't know enough about what I was doing to set the exposure compensation. In all the photos I took during the last few days, the ice looks nice and white. (Click here for a complete technical report of working out the kinks in my digital camera.)
In all the earlier, darker photos, I have tried to compensate by brightening the image on my computer. It's not a perfect solution, so you will probably still be able to see the difference. My apologies for the lack of quality.
These pages do not have thumbnails, but they shouldn't take long to load. If your screen has a low resolution, they'll be a little large. The number after each page is how many photos that page has.