Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles
History in Color: July 1984, Los Angeles, CA, USA – 29-year old light heavyweight Robert Kabbas of Team Australia is performing a snatch lift in the training hall before the beginning of the weightlifting...
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In Black and White: The Time Has Come,’ the Walrus Said…
The time has come,’ the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter...
Fedor Bogdanovsky (USSR): Split-Style Snatching in Stockholm, 1958
History in Color: September 19, 1958, Stockholm, Sweden – Fedor Bogdanovsky, 28-year old middleweight of Leningrad, Russia performs a split-style snatch in the 75kg class at the 1958 World and European Championships in Stockholm....
Group Hug of the Heavyweights (1961)
History in Color: March 11, 1961, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Yury Vlasov greets the strongest heavyweights after the end of the 90+kg weight class competition at the 1961 Prize of Moscow invitational tournament...
1972 Summer Olympics: And the Middleweight Winners Are…
History in Color: August 31, 1972, Munich, Germany – Best middleweights receive their awards at the medal ceremony in the 75kg weight class at the 1972 Summer Olympics (left to right): Mohamed Traboulsi (Lebanon,...
Viktor Kurentsov (USSR): Preparing For the Press Lift
History in Color: April 22, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania, USSR – Middleweight legend, Olympic champion, 5x World champion, 7x European champion, 9x USSR champion, Viktor Kurentsov competes for the Soviet Army Club of Khabarovsk, Russia...
Fasten Your Seatbelts, We Are About to Fly To Russia (1955)
History in Color : June 1955 –American Olympic weightlifting team is about to take off on a plane to Russia for the USA vs. USSR Olympic weightlifting meet to be held in Moscow and...
Rafael Chimishkyan: Vienna, 1954
History in Color: October 8, 1954, Vienna, Austria – Olympic champion Rafael Chimishkyan of Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR wins both World and European titles in the 60kg weight class at the 1954 World and European...
Daphnea C. Says Her Word
Daphnea C. patiently reviewed the new pictures of birds and then chimed in with her take on birds: “Enough of these birds! Don’t trust these guys…” Everybody is entitled for his or her opinion,...
Birds of Florida: Yellow-Rumped Warbler
As seen in Ponte Vedra, FL in December 2019. This is the first time yellow-rumped warblers appear in my birds photo showcase. It’s not easy to capture warblers on camera. They are tiny, fast...
