#JGPRiga

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And so it ends. 2017 was a lot! 💛 Massive thank you to everyone who supported me, talked to me and whom I had a chance to meet. You made it special. 😊 Now on to 2018! Happy New Year! See you at Worlds! ✌

Note: all photos are my original work. Reposting is stealing and totally not cool. 🙁

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ISU JGP Riga Cup 2015

ISU Junior Grand Prix Riga / LAT 26.08.2015 - 30.08.2015

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Results ｜

8th - Sena MIYAKE (JPN) = SP 55.88 + FS 112.85 = 168.73 13th - Kazuki TOMONO (JPN) = SP 51.78 + FS 96.15 = 147.93

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ISUジュニアグランプリ 開催期間 ： 2015年08月26日 ～ 2015年08月30日 開催地 ： ラトビア・リガ

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Yuna Aoki is, once again (I mean, just like last season), assigned to the second Junior Grand Prix of the season but hopefully this year proves to be a lot more successful for her. She's a lovely skater and on August 28th last year I went to photograph figure skating for the first time hoping she would get to skate her long program well. It didn't happen that time but I sincerely hope she enjoys two clean programs in Ostrava this year.

The photos were taken using a 1971 lens and focused manually, so all of them are very much imperfect but I hope you like them. Drop me a note either on Tumblr or Twitter to get bigger or not watermarked photos.

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Before ISU competitions of this season start, here are a few of my very first pancakes in figure skating photography from the very hot days in Riga at the end of last summer.

In my manual focusing, I tend to rely on my eyes for the very last focus corrections, so the dress really matters and Xiangning Li was very helpful with that blue because the brighter, the better.