I shot the following series of images in a few seconds’ worth of action down 200m of a tropical seaside river-lagoon the other day with my buddy playing on a monoski. He complains that his weight is too far on his back foot, but it all looks pretty fun to me. The frozen water-patterns are one of my favourite features- the ones in the last shot are my favourite, it’s too bad that you can’t see his face. At any rate, I’m hoping to head out with the guy again in the next couple of weeks, especially as it looks like I’ll be out here a little while longer, so maybe get some more shots…
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The pics were all taken with my Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM. For those that know the lens, it’s a macro lens that works great as a portrait lens on the 1.6x crop-factor sensors like the EOS 400D, but certainly isn’t a custom-built sports-lens. I found myself wishing I had the 70-200mm f/2.8 L that I’ve got my beady eye on, but which is stretching the budget a little right now, especially if I hope to find a place to live when I get back to Australia. I reckon though if I’m going to keep up some of these water-sports I might just have to bite the bullet. After all, my round of kite-surfing shots were pretty disappointing, but that promises to be a good avenue for some fuuun photoshoots.
