this has been the most challenging open ceremony I think in the history of the Olympics it’s taken up 50 AP photographers 15 photo editors and also massive pool operation so in total we got the work of about 85 to 90 photographers we had photographer stretch along over 6 km of the river s all the way from the Pont to ellites up to trodo in places like the Eiffel Tower on the roof of the Lou pretty much any landmark in Paris we were on we had a total of 18 boats where they allowed press photographers that was divided up with the pool Partners we ended up doing five of them we had the boats from the USA and those photographers did the whole trip along the S we received 16,000 images we got that down to 2,000 I got to say the biggest challenge was was the weather it was torrential rain pretty much from start till finish I’ve covered 18 Olympics and I I’ve seen nothing nothing like this and I don’t think I’ll ever see anything like it again I think this is this is a once- in a-lifetime event