Ray Giubilo is an Australian-Italian sports photographer (born in Adelaide, Australia, moved to Italy when he was seven, moved back to Australia in his mid-20s and opened his first photography studio, in Sydney, in 1987. Here's Ray). Yonex is a maker of tennis racquets. Jasmine Paolini is an Italian tennis star who was a finalist at both the French and Wimbledon last year and is currently ranked world No. 8. All you need to know is that Yonex's symbol is two circles and two triangles, and when Yonex strings Jasmine's racquets they color the strings except for the circle and triangle shapes. And look what happened to Ray....

Freaky. 

Following the publication of the shot (taken with a Nikon), according to The Guardian, Jasmine was on the court for a second-round match. Ray thought she was going over to hug her coach at one point, but she came over to him, gave him a high five and a grin and said, "great shot."

Mike

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Every now and then a regular TOP reader gets attention from the outside world, and I feel a totally unwarranted sense of pride and connection! This has been out for nearly a year now, and I'm just now catching up to it, thanks to my friend Barb H. Last September, Kristine Hinrichs was the subject of a feature on the statewide Spectrum News 1 in Wisconsin. The two minute feature, reported by Megan Marshall, shows her working before dawn by the lakefront. A retired city worker and former marathoner, Kristine has been sharing a PAD (photo a day) project of Milwaukee on social media for 14 years. (Here's her IG account.) She's also a longtime commenter on TOP, with 73 comments logged since 2014, many of them "Featured." Congratulations Kristine! We're proud.

Mike

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Kenneth Tanaka: "Excellent profile...and excellent work, Kristine! Indeed, Milwaukee is full of lens-ready scenes and subjects. Bravo!"

John Krumm: "Love that. Amazing persistence too. I glanced at her Instagram and enjoyed the variety, with some real classic shots in there. Of course I was trying to identify her camera, being a nerd. Looks like one of the pro level OM System cameras, I think."

Kristine Hinrichs: "WOW! Thanks for the feature! Imagine my surprise seeing my own face. Approaching 5,200 days straight. This explains the sudden interest in my Instagram feed."

I've been ill. Spent the whole night on Monday in the ER. Not serious, not chronic, and not important, but it was an ordeal. I'm recuperating. 

Life happens.... 

Meanwhile, Oren and Carl (old friends, of each other and, later, of me—Oren can be seen here and Carl here) have discovered the Chris Killip Foundation website. There's a beautiful brief selection of photographs from each of several of his projects. Go to the site and then to "Images" and have a look. I think this work deserves extended viewing, even meditation if that's not too much to say. His great 1988 book In Flagrante is hard to obtain, and I've never actually seen a copy. It would be nice to have more of the work online if the presentation were as good as it is on the website. (Why can't whole books be presented online? I guess it's not done because then no one has to pay, and photographers need money too. But when the books aren't available and the photographer is no longer with us....)

I never quite had a handle on Chris Killip while he was alive, I'm sorry to say. So I've been reading bits and pieces of biography from here and there. The Wikipedia article on him is a good place to start. 

Back soon.

Mike

P.S. I'll be working on catching up with comments today and tomorrow.

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