Olympic Insight: “My parents took my sisters and me to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, and I immediately knew then, while waving my American flag cheering for our athletes, that the Olympics would always be part of my life. Little did I know that I would cover seven Games.”

This photo: Chinese triathlete Zhang Yi exits the water during the Women's Triathlon at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. To get a watery foreground, Don Miralle mounted his Canon EOS 5D and 14mm EF on a boom and extended it over the water.

Photo: Donald Miralle