Miramontes Paddleboard
These paddleboarders are a follow-up to an earlier post, Miramontes, in which I mentioned that standup paddleboarders came by while we were on our New Year’s day walk.
This picture features some of those paddlers. It is an interesting sport, though not one I expect to be participating in. One ad for paddleboards that I looked at asserts that it’s almost like walking on water. I think that comment might explain a lot about the zealotry of doing this on a freezing cold winter’s day, with a serious risk of hypothermia if you fall into the water.
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Canon EOS 5Dmkii, Nikkor-N pre-AI 24mm/f2.8 lens (view), ISO100, merged from three exposures – two at 0.0 E.V and one taken at +2.o EV. I thought it was a proper set of brackets, but I had maxed the camera out at 1/8000th and two images were taken at that speed – I decided to let Photomatix handle them as three exposures, and it came out OK. Advantage was it gave me three versions to choose from for deghosting each of the paddleboarders.
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It feels summery right down to the sun spots. Well done!
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Thanks! It felt summery, for a few hours.
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Lovely. I especially like the capture of light.
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Thanks Ryan. It was a fantastic day – this low angle winter light is delightful, when the sun is out which is not often enough sometimes.
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Wow! Nice sky, nice reflections, nice silhouette and definitely dramatic.
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Thanks Joseph! It was a perfect day for a new year’s walk.
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This is a first for me. I’ve never seen standup paddleboarders before. You sure have some dramatic skies out your way, too.
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Hi Ken. They are a fairly new thing, at least to me. I first noticed them a couple of years ago, but last year they suddenly seemed quite common around here. That is the paddleboarders I am talking about. I have been appreciating the skies for a very long time – a nice winter day around here very often means sunny breaks with some very nice skies.
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You’ve done it again, seascape with clouds providing high drama, and a touch of human interest off to one side. If only we humans could confine our impact on this magnificent environment to a few ripples on the water.
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Thanks Val! I agree completely – ripples rather than splashes, or as we seem to be up to the equivalent of a large meteor strike.
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