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During the Gold Medal Sledge Hockey game between Japan and USA, I shot just over 2200 still photos. I posted a number of them on Flickr but thought stringed together, they all made a pretty neat video:

To make this video, I used a very similar process to how I make my still photo based timelapse movies although instead of my point and shoot, I was using a Nikon D3. I simply exported all the photos in the appropriate size and imported them as an image sequence in Quicktime. I think the resulting video pretty turned out pretty cool.

Easily one of the busiest pavilions, the Royal Canadian Mint had fantastic crowds of people for one simple reason: they let you touch the medals!

A coworker waited 9 hours in line to get his photo with the Gold medal!

The Million Dollar coin (now actually worth about $3.5Million)

Of course, I had to hold a Gold medal myself too

The main pavilion closed at the end of the Winter Games but I’ve heard they are moving to a different location for the Paralympic Games so you’ll still have a chance to handle the medals. The lineups might even be more manageable.

UPDATE: The Mint has announced it’s new location during the Paralympic Games – The Vancouver Public Library.

My view of the win from Robson Square…a perfect close to an amazing Winter Olympic Games for me.