Testing a new camera lens
March 3rd, 2008
For a photographer, it’s pretty exciting when you get a new lens for your camera. All you want to do is get onto the water and start snapping and hopefully get a few shots making spending the money seem worth while.
One of our favourite photograpghers, Greg Mulvaney (Action Images Australia), recently invested in a new Fisheye Lens and recently hit the water to snap a VS.
We sent Greg some LSD stickers to whack on the deck, however unfortunately they were a little small to see from the tip of the mast! But regardless, the image Greg sent to us is awesome, and shows that a decent lens and imagination, as well as trusting the crew not to capsize with your new lens strapped to the top of the rig, really can result in an awesome photo.
Check out the rest of the images here >>
SAILINGphotos.net
March 5th, 2008
Well it’s finally time to launch our new website which will host all the photos that we take in the future. Ignore the past galleries that we have had, this new one is here to stay.
The albums on the site at the moment are:
2008
February
* “Spirit of Queensland” (Formally Grundig/AAPT)
* Fairway Challenge2007
October
* Trailerable Multihull National ChampionshipsAugust
* Hamilton Island Race Week
* Great Keppel Yacht RaceApril
* Hobie 16 Sprint Racing
* 12′ Skiff Australian Championships
* Laser Bilby Easter RegattaMarch
* Etchells Brisbane Fleet Championship2006
February
* Qld Laser Metropolitan Championships
Hope you like it! Updates will be posted here when new albums are uploaded
“Big Boat Knock Down”
March 7th, 2008
joecoolworld is not the guy you want around when it all turns pear shaped! (translation: turns to shit!)
Check out these vids…
Big Boat Knock Down - Part 1
A couple of round up’s and a knock down under Golden Gate bridge off the race deck of the St. Francis Y.C. during a Rolex event a few years back
Big Boat Knock Down - Part 2
Big boat part 2, after the round up of the black boat the boats passing by have a close call. The knock down if you watch closely, you will see the captain fall overboard. He get’s rescued by the race committee. Maybe that will be part 3 so look for it.
Big Boat Knock Down - Part 3
Skipper falls overboard on knock down and the crew does a proper man overboard. If you look closely you will see the sling being thrown. Thanks for watching.
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Another blowy Sunday
March 10th, 2008
The little bay in South East Queensland where LSD spends most of its days saw yet another weekend of intense pressure, again causing damage.
Dismasted yacht - no doubt the crew were a little upset
Photo by LSD reader Craig
Daily Wind High: 23.84 knots at 4:00 on 10/3/08
Daily Wind Average: 8.67 knots
Monthly Wind High: 34.20 knots on 9/3/08
Monthly Wind Average: 8.56 knots
Yearly Wind High: 38.92 knots on 1/1/08
Yearly Wind Average: 8.07 knots
The above figures come from the wind gage on top of the Marina office, which is inside the harbour. There were a few massive gusts that came through, the biggest being the 34.20 knots. But remember, that was INSIDE the harbour.
Everyone was keen to race. The combined yacht fleet headed out, again with a strong following, and were eager as anything to get racing underway. There was talk between competing yachts and the start boat as to how they could make racing happen - after all, there was no warning out. They ended up deciding to move their start inside the bay and attempt to get racing underway. The fleet was keen! But not after too long, Code Flag N was flying and the fleet headed home to begin fixing some of the damage.
The Etchells managed to get in one race out of the three scheduled with their Fleet Championship ending on a four race series. Most of them were pretty relieved to get their boats back to shore!
Team Racing saw only a handful of races for the lower groups, with everyone attempting to get racing happening, however the spikes in the pressure were just too intense and frequent throughout the late morning, and unfortunately racing for the kids was abandoned as well finishing off their competition for Term 1.
So it was an eventful day one might say!
As everyone was packing up, discussing the conditions and enjoying a refreshing ale, the mad crazy Laser fleet decided to head out to the carnage stricken bay for an afternoon of training.
So how was your weekend on the water?
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March 12th, 2008
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