Michael Phelps, Olympians galore at swim meet

We’ve said from the beginning that this would not just be a business blog but also a news blog about interesting things we’re involved with.

So here are some oustanding photos I managed to capture this past weekend at the Santa Clara International Grand Prix swim tournament down the road in Silicon Valley. It was my third straight year with a photographer’s media credentials, and I have to say I got some shots that were better than what I’ve seen from the Associated Press and Getty Images.

I’m releasing them all under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Attribution license — something you won’t see from AP or Getty. :~)

Among those on hand: Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Leisel Jones, Summer Sanders, Ricky Berens, Kirsty Coventry, Stephanie Rice (Olympians all) and an amazing crop of talented up-and-comers from Cal, Stanford and around the world.

I’ll be adding to this set after I return from New York, where I’m attending the 140 Character conference on Twitter culture and the Open Video Conference.

JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.