Gunillocentrism – web diary of a freelance journalist

Here’s my picture (mentioned below)!

DN - Sport - Världens största motorspektakel

It looks cool, I think, to see my byline as “Gunilla Kinn/Pressens bild”, doesn’t it?! (If my name is not there, they have replaced the picture somehow with something from the parade – which I think I will be very late for.)

Gunilla

I have been hanging out at the stadium today as well, taking pictures of the 33 race drivers when they signed autographs. Lots of people! Most of them queued up for Danica Patrick, of course, but Kenny Bräck was also quite popular. And that was of course where I took my shots as well…
I also hang out outside the garage again, and at the Drivers’ Meeting at the tracks, where the drivers queued up for the parade.

And then I had a great e-mail from my friend Kalle, who is a picture editor at Dagens Nyheter. Apparently they haven’t had as many pictures of Kenny Bräck as there were demand for in Sweden, because Kalle wrote something I just have to brag about (especially on a blog called Gunillocentrism):

“……såg på pressens bild din total dominans du har verkligen scååpat ut alla andra byråer..lite häftigt.”

Wow! Who would have believed. Not me. Apparently one of the pictures will be in Dagens Nyheter’s sport section tomorrow, at least in the first edition. So now I am not just a sports reporter, but also a sport photographer…

The weather is perfect today - warm and sunny, with beautiful clouds. Let’s just hope for equally nice weather tomorrow, then the race day will be fabulous.

Now off to downtown Indianapolis and the Parade!

/Gunilla

Now I have submitted no less than four texts from Indianapolis! Acknowledged, they are short, like wire texts always are, but nevertheless - my first sports texts.

Yesterday, I also gave sports photography a shot. Somehow, I have managed to get ackreditation as a reporter as well as a photographer, so I have access to the pits. Which meant that I could try taking pictures there. Then I realized it’s quite difficult to shoot racing vehicles… I cannot imagine how quick a camera has to be to keep up with the 360 km/h speeds of the indy cars! Well, I had some nice shots outside Kenny Bräck’s garage, too - at least that stood still.

/Gunilla