G'day Frank, An absolutely stunning shot. You've caught the action at the perfect moment, composition, focus DOF are all spot on. I also really like the expressions of the people watching in the background.
What really blows me away is that you have beaches. When I think Canada, I see prairies, mountains, bears, brass monkeys...that sort of thing. <VBG> My views are probably coloured somewhat from only having been there in winter :-) Seriously though, that's a cracking pic. Dave . On 8/14/05, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had planned a "proper" PAW for today, but now I can't. It looked > cool in the viewfinder, fine on the neg on a light table under a > loupe, but when I got the 8x10 back today, I had to file it under > "what the hell was I thinking?!?" > > Sigh... > > But, I also got back a roll I took at the beach with the kids a couple > of weeks ago. We went to Sandbanks Provincial Park, near Kingston, > Ontario, Canada. Lovely place: natural sand dunes right around where > Lake Ontario empties into the St. Lawrence River. It's quite a large > place, and we beached at a spot where a sand dune of several hundred > feet falls right into the water - the beach is only about 5 or 6 feet > wide between the sand dune and the water (which was pristine and a > perfect temperature). > > There were a bunch of teenagers there who had set up an inflatable > mini-tramp, and were running at top speed down the dune (half falling, > mostly out of control), then jumping onto the trampoline and into the > water. They looked like they were having a great time, as were the > spectators. I snapped a few, including this one: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3631907&size=lg > > Comments are always encouraged and appreciated. > > Thanks! > > cheers, > frank > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > >
