Bit of winter windsurfing.

gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
edited July 11, 2005 in Sports
We only get a few weeks winter a year & believe me we are smack bang in the middle of it. I dont know how they do it for hours on end.

These were all with my 400mm. Not as easy as i thought it would be thats for sure. With high winds the lens actually acts like a sail & i had to brace it against a tree !

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This guy just took off under wind power alone !

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Had to keep back of the bays edge as the sand blast was huge from the wind & i didnt want it on my lens.

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  • 4labs4labs Registered Users Posts: 2,089 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2005
    Great series Gus. I especially like the one with the city skyline in the backround.
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2005
    4labs wrote:
    Great series Gus. I especially like the one with the city skyline in the backround.
    Ta mate...what you see is it. Big country town.
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2005
    Wind Sufers
    Humungus wrote:
    We only get a few weeks winter a year & believe me we are smack bang in the middle of it. I dont know how they do it for hours on end.

    These were all with my 400mm. Not as easy as i thought it would be thats for sure. With high winds the lens actually acts like a sail & i had to brace it against a tree !

    This guy just took off under wind power alone !
    Had to keep back of the bays edge as the sand blast was huge from the wind & i didnt want it on my lens.
    Hi Gus, we see a few Wind Surfers down this way too, but gawwd it's so wind and cold when they do that Sport, same as those ones that use those little Paracute to Wind Surf with........amazing acrobats aren't they, must be a great thrill for them to fly with the wind like that.

    Great Series Gus.......... Skippy (Australia)
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  • ehughesehughes Registered Users Posts: 1,675 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2005
    Great shots gus, that water is looking pretty rough..

    I really like this one

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2005
    Thanks skip/ed...yep it was cold/rough & i couldnt do it. If it wasnt for the sand blasting i could have got closer but sand is our enemy.

    Gus
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2005
    Afternoon Gus
    #1 & 2 for me, up up and away :D
    looks really windy
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  • luckydogluckydog Registered Users Posts: 396 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2005
    I was trying to pick out the skyline in your shots...Where is it? Nice shots though and I can understand the protecting the lens statement in the current weather we're having.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2005
    Thanks guys...LD its brisvegas off in the distance.
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