Sunday, August 26, 2012

I'm lazy!

today we saw some guys jumping off the roof of the ICA (institute of contemporary art) into the boston harbor. some 90 feet if i remember correctly. before they were down in the water, they did some nice turns and flips and what-not. but it went so very fast i missed many of the jumps (i guess a jump took 3 seconds?). also, i did not want to sit ready with my camera, until they would finally make the jump. and the few times i did, i didnt see anything of the jump as i was too busy clicking..., or seeing that i held my camera wrong and he jumped a little to the right, or left... most shots that i did manage to take were blurry, or just empty... 
i guess this is the only one that worked out... :)
it was super- supercrowded! but the weather was nice, and we had a good spot (thanks to our friends who were there much earlier than us; we somehow managed to miss the stop while on the subway, and had to go back, and it all took forever and ever). ah well... i dont think i want to become a cliff diver (they were all wearing tiny speedos), and before people realize what you are doing is amazing, its already over. besides, i prefer to be in the water, rather than jumping into it all the time....

3 comments:

biebkriebels said...

The photo is very well done! It is very difficult to catch a moving object indeed.

Nellies said...

Cool photo Cat!

Kay said...

It looks like this fellow has good form but I'd pass on doing it myself.

My camera takes multiple fast shots, so I get lots of them and sooner or later one is good. I love this feature but it means going through dozens of pix to find any worth keeping. That's how I got the rodeo shots I'm posting now.