Tubing-or-You Can't Beat Fun for a Good Time

[Darsk47]

Just some horsing around on the water over the weekend. Lots of fun shots - colours look pretty good IMO. C& C always welcome.

1. Tubing

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3080/2628403716_f473b00f51_o.jpg

2. Happy kids with the dogs watching from the dock

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/2627625123_ae5144f334_o.jpg

3. Piggy back

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2627619351_737923242c_o.jpg

4. My daughter took these next two of this middle age dude who sometimes thinks he still has what he did when he was 24. :-o

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2628410138_6d51561d9f_o.jpg

5. It's why my arms and shoulders are still sore today......

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/2628539744_bc6c4de9c9_o.jpg



Cheers!!

[kgauger30]

great shots, were you in the boat?

[Darsk47]

Yes I was in the boat, some standing, some in the spotter's seat.... except for the last two of course.

[manutd101]

Great shots, really convey the feeling of being there.

[HauntFreaks]

#2 is just a great photo... prefect DOF... great stuff

[cstewart]

My daughter took these next two of this middle age dude who sometimes thinks he still has what he did when he was 24.
Cheers!!

Darsk:

My last and most likely final attempt at water skiing two years ago exactly (and my first attempt then in about 20 years) resulted in a torn hamstring, more pain then I ever care to feel again, and a trip to the local hospital in Port Alberni here on the Island. :oops: All the day before I had to start coaching my summer baseball all-star team in a tourney.

I will stick to tubing from now on, or like you, taking pictures of tubers!

Cheers!

Chris

[Tigershark]

great shots love the water spray pictures

[Darsk47]

Great shots, really convey the feeling of being there.

Cheers - thanks! Great way to spend an afternoon.

[Darsk47]

#2 is just a great photo... prefect DOF... great stuff

Thanks HF - I really like the dogs on the dock. They both want so badly to be in the boat everytime we pull out.

great shots love the water spray pictures Thanks Tiger - I can still manage to carve it up.

[Darsk47]

My last and most likely final attempt at water skiing two years ago exactly (and my first attempt then in about 20 years) resulted in a torn hamstring, more pain then I ever care to feel again, and a trip to the local hospital in Port Alberni here on the Island. :oops: All the day before I had to start coaching my summer baseball all-star team in a tourney.

I will stick to tubing from now on, or like you, taking pictures of tubers!


Hey Chris, thanks - I'm still at it as you can see by the pics. No doubt though that as with most things the older I get, the better I used to be. ;)

The form is not what it was, and the inside elbow comes nowhere close to the water like it used to, but I still have a larf.

Man-o-man was I sore Monday though!! Good news is there's more to come this weekend.

Darcy

[jdando]

Great shots, 1 and 2 convey, FUN and summer. Glad your daughter got some pictures of you. All I get when I give my camera to my kids is beheaded or pictures of the cat's butt :(

[fatcat2000]

what mode were you in? A? How about metering? thanks. Have same gear and want to shoot kids and watersports.

[manutd101]

what mode were you in? A? How about metering? thanks. Have same gear and want to shoot kids and watersports.
According to the EXIF, the first is shutter priority w/ spot metering ;) The kids changed it up and used aperture priority.

[namasste]

Darcy, I think one of the more impressive things on these is the sharpness. Shooting from a boat is not easy even in calm water and you managed some very crisp shots here. Well done!!

[Darsk47]

Great shots, 1 and 2 convey, FUN and summer. Glad your daughter got some pictures of you. All I get when I give my camera to my kids is beheaded or pictures of the cat's butt :(

Thanks - the daughter who took these is pretty keen and confident with the camera. Cheers!

[Darsk47]

Darcy, I think one of the more impressive things on these is the sharpness. Shooting from a boat is not easy even in calm water and you managed some very crisp shots here. Well done!!

Scott - thanks - I was standing for most of them, braced between the dash and the back of the spotter's seat. That stance, a fast s/s and the 70-200 doing what it does best. Cheers !

[Darsk47]

what mode were you in? A? How about metering? thanks. Have same gear and want to shoot kids and watersports.

Fatcat - I replied to your email. Also - for exif data, provided it's left intact, you can view it with a right click....provided you have Firefox as you browser and the appropriate add-on software. It's all free at the mozilla site. If you're going to hang around here for a while, you'll find it comes in quite handy.

[REXTi]

get your daughter to start taking more pictures number 5 is great haha.

[manutd101]

Fatcat - I replied to your email. Also - for exif data, provided it's left intact, you can view it with a right click....provided you have Firefox as you browser and the appropriate add-on software. It's all free at the mozilla site. If you're going to hang around here for a while, you'll find it comes in quite handy.
Look up Opanda - can also be used w/ IE.