August came to a close this year in New York and in the sports world that means only one thing. The U.S Open is about to start!!!

This year, like every other year for the past few decades staffers and stringers for Getty Images have converged on the USTA Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens with one thing in mind. Do what we do best, make pictures at the United States’ biggest and baddest tennis event.

For those of you not familiar with the U.S. Open, it is 14 days of tennis at one of the sports most famous venues (maybe not the MOST famous but one of them!). The U.S Open isn’t just about the tennis, it is also a showcase for New York and the stands are usually filled with many A-list celeberities.

Below are some behind the scenes pics of the event and also some link to a multimedia piece I put together.

Wait for it Clive wait for it!!!!!

Any chance????

Down here dude!

May I see your ticket sir?

Only four more sets………………

Jonathan and wife Debbie, adjust to their new surroundings.

Trust me it looks WAY bigger on TV.

Victorious!!!

Sometimes it takes a village!! (not pictured Elsa, Jim and Janey)

If you’d liked to see what an event like the U.S. Open does to a person over 14 days please click the image below.

(Make sure to turn up your volume)

To view all of the images posted from this years U.S. Open click here

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

National League all-star Barry Bonds #25 stands in left field during the 78th MLB All-Star Game at AT&T Park on July 10, 2007 in San Francisco.

After attending this year’s Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop, I decided my next blog entry would include some multimedia material. The Kalish Workshop was a great experience for me and I would highly recommend it to anyone in the photo business. It opened my eyes to  to how good this “new” form of media is at telling the story.

I attended this year’s MLB All-Star game armed with my computer a - M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 2-Channel Mobile Digital Recorder in the hopes of putting together a multimedia slideshow.

This is my first attempt at putting together a multimedia slideshow since attending the workshop. It was put together using Soundslides Plus, which is a great program for a beginner like me but has its limits. I also found that the M-Audio MicroTrack, while good at gathering sound, took forever to boot up after turning it on. The batteries (which are rechargeable, not replaceable) died after about an hour and a half, which I found frustrating.

If anyone has a suggestion about good sound recorders, I would love to hear them. I am still new to the sound recording game, so I apologize in advance for the quality. It was hard to record good sound at a sports venue, so much of what you record is not allowed to be broadcast or used and it is very hard to collect “clean” sound as there is a lot of background noise to deal with.

While surfing the net for info on multimedia, I came across this blog: http://www.multimediashooter.com/. There are some really good posts on here and if you have a minute or two, check it out.

The piece below was made to try and give you an idea of what it’s like to edit an event on-site when the game gets close and you are not sure which way it’s going to go. In case you weren’t watching this year’s All-Star game, it came down to the final inning. The National League who hasn’t won in 11 years almost came back to tie it at the end. Our worst fear as on-site editors is EXTRA INNINGS! Enjoy!

Click the photo below to start: