The Beijing Olympics offers many photo opportunities for sports photographers from around the world. Adam Pretty is a photographer from Australia and has been living in Beijing for about a year.

Adam is a chief photographer at Getty Images, which the International Olympic Committee appointed as official Photographic Agency for the Beijing Olympics.

He has been taking many pictures of Chinese athletes.

Adam, who is 30 years old, shot the past two Olympic Games and two Winter Olympics. Underwater photography is his speciality and he has already visited the "Water Cube" several times.

This photo of the Chinese National Synchronized Swimming Team is one of his favorite.

Adam says he hopes to capture a memorable shot of China's 110-meter hurdle champion, Liu Xiang.

(From china.org.cn July 23, 2008)