There is no way to describe how you feel when this happens… he has been working so hard to finish the slalom close to his final race of last season (which he won)… So perhaps this image will help you understand.

This photo has now become "the most interesting" photo on Flickr when you seach for "Kobe Bryant."  Amazing.  Volume up especially as Kobe recently reached the 20,000 point milestone (before age 30). I heard on SportsCenter this morning that Wilt reached this point in five fewer seasons…

VitalStatistics.info politely asked to use this photo on their site for an article on Kobe. A first for me. Very cool.

Here’s the original photo:

I use LucisArt, www.lucisart.com, the "exposure" filter, on a background copy layer (usually) to get the effect. I also play with HDR, but only when I can get proper multiple exposures, for the reasons you rightly cite.

The Kobe photo is a lot more complicated (and not very well executed, as I look back on it now a few weeks later). In the original, you couldn’t see Kobe without really looking hard — he was lost against the background. (http://flickr.com/photos/ddwise/2058844301/in/photostream/)

So I created a selection of Perkins, Kobe, and Ray Allen — and the Parquet Floor — and reduced the brightness on everything else. It kind of looks like a strobe shot (it wasn’t — all available light and there was plenty of it) — but you can at least see Kobe.

Davids-Large-Mouth, originally uploaded by TimDD.

I call this one "David’s Large Mouth," which requires some explaining.  David is my brother, and probably my best friend.  He loves fishing (something I’ve struggled to understand and share, though my son hasn’t and does), and sorted out a charter to take the kids out I think four years ago… Here’s a shot.  The camera was a 3mp Fuji of some kind (long since stolen), so forgive the quality, but the expression is priceless!