Olympics day 11

An early start to the day, an hour long drive south towards Slough via Abingdon and tickets to see the canoeing and kayking sprints at Eaton Dorney. Very exciting!

Being a paddler of the more stable kayaks and knowing how easy it is to end up in the water, I have to admit that I was slightly disappointed not to see any capsizes.

Here a few photos of the day. I did try messing with various elements during the morning, so hence so photos are 'better' than others. But, please bear in mind that my motivation is still not where it should be, but it is slowly, slowly increasing.

Mens K4

The underdogs for the C2 were very much the Angolan team.

Spot the Swedish supporter

Womens K2, slow shutter speed

Mens K4

Mens C2

Must be a Brit on the water

It was a great morning out and a fantastic atmosphere. Thanks to my navigator (who would now like to try her hand at sprint canoeing) and the people that didn't take up the offer of a free tickets. 

I would like to suggest to the BCU, that perhaps we can hold the Hasler kayak marathon finals here, I am sure we can find 25,000 people to cheer us on!

Motivation?

Due to recent situations I haven't updated this blog in a long while. I have to admit that I lost all motivation to take photos and wasn't sure when any would return. I think that slowly, slowly it is coming back.

I now have my very own GoPro and have been trying to think of new 'angles'. There are plenty of good photographs (and videos) taken with sports cameras from a variety of positions: body cams, helmet cams, boat cams, pole cams, so I tried for something 'new', a paddle cam.

I have taken the camera out twice and mounted it on the center of my paddle, on my first attempt the battery ran out half way through my trip, on the second attempt I ended up getting my paddle stuck in a tree (ie, I moved in my boat under tree, my paddle didn't move with me), thankfully, I now know that a paddle with a GoPro still floats!!!

(My apologies for the poor layout of some of these photos, I still become very frustrated with Blogger for not allowing me to do exactly what I want with this blog)

'Is that a camera on your paddle?!'

View looking towards bottom of River Thames

Time trial start (yes, a bad start from me)

On the hips

Sometimes, just sometimes, when you feel the need to try/do something different, give shooting from the hip a try. Ignore the quizzical looks, the non discrete noise of the shutter and the wonky angles that you may get, give it a go and see what results you get - oh, I do love autofocus (even though sometimes it doesn't quite work as I hope).

Uni Times

I have put together a short clip of some of the photos that I took whilst at Oxford Brookes University.

Inspiration for this comes from a post in this blog: http://potatosaladheather.blogspot.com/

I love taking photos, just sometimes need some ideas and how to make them memorable.

Canoeing fun

I have been meaning to put these photos and videos up for quite some time.

I took photos on the way to the pub and a video on the way back. In this video Jen Clough demonstrates how fantastically her DW training is going.

Bouldering

I saw this link http://www.photographyblogger.net/bouldering-pictures/ somewhere on the web and remembered that I had some 'ok' photos that I took a few years back in Font, France, so here they are.