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I was out recently playing with my new camera mounting rig doing self portraits.

Fast boats

Chasing fast boats all day started with running offshore with the new 99ft Speedboat and ended in Narragansett Bay with A Cats.

Sneakers

The new Puma VOR boat was out this weekend doing some around the buoys training. Great paint job- note the orange cat starting to show on the very bottom of the boat. I'm trying to create some sensation of movement in a few of these shots using slow a slow shutter and a gyro stabilizer. This boat moves fast in not alot of breeze and flat water so my driver has to be money-

Fire

This afternoon's excitement in the neighborhood. Got a chance to try out my new point and shoot, an Olympus 850 SW, supposedly waterproof down to 10 feet. We'll see. The fire chief told me to get back when I got close to two fireman aiming a hose thru a window- I told him not to worry cuz the camera was waterproof! Some of these shots even made it up on Boston.com.

Carving

I scored plenty of powder the final days of the season on Vail Mountain. No fresh powder on this day though....I used a Superclamp and a lot of duct tape to fasten the camera to my ex-racer friend's ski tip. Unfortunately the heavily weighted ski caused him to wipe out 3 turns in. Luckily I was able to get several shots after that during the second try but on the last run the whole rig vibrated off and I had to chase down the tumbling taped ball of Superclamp and Canon camera and lens. My friend hiked back up the piste to retrieve the remote trigger which was trashed. Fortunately the camera was fine.

Velo

I shot some of the local fast guys yesterday at their weekly Sunday morning race. I got as close to the curb at a corner as possible with a 17-35 on my Canon using fill flash as well. The high shutter speed shots weren't particularly interesting so I slowed the shutter down and tried speeds between a 15th to 100th of a second while furiously panning the riders only a foot or two away. No Photoshop was used.