The Rio Olympics may be over, but it provided some fantastic images among the drama. So much so that I couldn’t let it pass without showing you some of the incredible images that were captured. I’ll be putting up a post soon on dramatic sporting moments, but I wanted to do one first on the more stylish photographs taken. How much of the Olympics did you see? What was your favourite sport to watch?
Matthias Hangst (Getty Images) captures the seemingly poetic art that happens when Aldo Montano of Italy fought Fares Ferjani of Tunisia.
The incredible backdrop of Rio can be seen in the Windsurfers RSX Womens race taken by Bernat Armangue (AP).
Rebeca Andrade of Brazil really does fly through the air, as seen by Alex Livesey at Getty Images
The background was sensational when Great Britain’s Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow were in the men’s 10m synchro diving competition at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre. Tom Jenkins for the Guardian does the honours.
Sergei Illnitsky (EP) used a slow exposure effect when photographing France’s Lauren Rembi and Emes Szasz of Hungary in the women’s épée individual semi-final.
Tom Daley’s elegant grace when diving off the 10m platfrom as photographed by Francois-Xavier Marit (Getty Images).
David Ramos (Getty Images) shows us a deliberately artistic interpretation of the Women’s Omnium.
The water may have been filthy but Kevin Lamarque (Reuters) was still able to take such a great image of some male open water swimmers.
Alex Raphael 
Awesome shots, brillant captures!
Thanks. I have quite a few spare. I may even do a third post on it.
Amazing photographic techniques too… I could do with a 3rd show!
I’ll see what I can do 🙂
These are amazing pictures Alex! I only made it through the first hour of the Opening Ceromony before giving up because of all the commercials. Sadly, I never tuned back in, although I did follow the daily medal counts. Thanks for sharing these!🙋🏻
There were many cool moments. As a Brit, it was incredible. So proud of them all. I wasn’t that thrilled with the opening ceremony either but it did have the right message I guess.
Amazing captures!
I put a lot of thought into them. I wanted a nice mix.
Lovely thought and beautiful exposure !
and good day to you !!!
Aww thanks. Same to you 🙂
These are cool
Why thank you pretty lady.
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These are amazing! Timing is everything when it comes to photography, but of course technique does matter too!
Thanks. I wanted a mix of beautiful backdrop and clever photographic techniques. I’m going to choose eight more with the focus more on the athletes. I’m curious which you’ll prefer.
Cool, looking forward to it. Speaking of photos, check out my Comic-con recap w/ photos of my fave cosplayers 😉
I had a look. Thanks for the heads up. Funny I missed it. I saw the post before and after it.
Whoa…these are incredible!
Thanks. They did a great job at capturing the beauty within Rio and the grace that the athletes provide.
Great choices, Alex
Thanks Derrick 🙂 Look out for more soon.
I watched most of the sports on TV (especially because Canal + had the rights), but fencing was the most spectacular to me. I didn’t know anything about it, but learned a lot from the commentators, who themselves were former Olympic champions.
I like how there are only two persons on stage, and how quiet it gets when the duel is on; one little touch is enough to win you something! It was even more intense in the Women’s final. There were two Russians and during half time, they could not converse with their coaches because they were trained by the same person! So they were left alone on stage with their thoughts. That was extreme intense, as is the sport itself, with camera shots and everything else. 🙂
I tried watching the fencing but I really struggled to understand the rules. It is very graceful and elegant though. The Russians were lethal. They knocked out the Brits twice on the men’s side.
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That Tom Daley photo was taken just at the right time, what a shot.
Yeah superb. And I love the background colour too. How much of the Olympics did you see?
Not a lot.
There were a lot of distracting off the field stuff going on, but a lot of wonderful performances. And fantastic to see Britain doing so well.
Yeah, it’s nice to see home grown talent winning.
These are great. I watched a fair bit of The Olympics. I really like the gymnastics, diving and swimming.
Great shouts. Did you see the final in the female hockey? Sensational.
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