While I’ve never been one to glamorize the old days or go on about how much more difficult photography was in the era of film, I do feel there were some challenges we faced back then that today’s young shooters can tend to take for granted.

At some point during the race, my editor caught me completely off guard. He handed me a 500mm lens—no small piece of glass in the film era—and casually instructed me to head up into the blimp to photograph the race-leading Porsche 935, driven by A.J. Foyt, Bob Wollek, and Derek Bell. Just like that, my perspective on Sebring was about to change—literally.

OM System didn’t just offer a smaller camera—they packed it with features that genuinely changed how I work.

In the years I spent covering NASA's shuttle launches, this particular one always stand out in my memory as one of those times when everything came together perfectly.