He calls himself a “troglodyte” with his brushes, oil paints, and large canvas among the photographers with expensive cameras and long lenses. They’re all aiming to capture beach volleyball during the ...

PARIS — Peter Spens has the best seat in the house. Spens, a London-based painter, has spent the past eight days at the Paris Olympics in a perch atop the media standard high above the beach ...

Will Spens spent 30 years reporting and anchoring on radio and television, earning two Emmys and a New York City Civilian Heroism Award. When he moved to Santa Barbara in the mid 1990s, Spens told his ...

That was 62-year-old London artist Peter Spens, providing one of the more unexpected and endearing moments of the games—and also documenting the competition’s volleyball tournament from the top row of ...