Ferris wheel and fair rides at sunset, blurring due to long exposure.
Image ID: 20872
Location: Del Mar Fair, California, USA
I am readying gear for a bit of diving, so I had to drag the camera out of deep storage and call upon one of my two favorite fitness models for a few test shots. Summer is almost here. I can tell by watching my girls. One was on the beach playing a volleyball tournament today, the other swimming in the pool. Life is good.
(Note to photographers: I am again reminded today that Canon’s 15mm fisheye is the sharpest lens for underwater purposes I have ever used. Due to its curved-field nature, and the fact that a camera behind a spherical dome underwater is forced to focus on a curved-field virtual image, a good fisheye lens holds sharpness further into the corners while flat field lenses break down and go soft. I have been a sucker for very wide lenses since I first picked up a camera — why the hell would anyone waste their time on macro when the big picture is out there waiting to be told? — and the Canon 15mm and Nikon 16mm fisheye lenses are two of my favorites.)
Young girl swimming in a pool
Image ID: 25286
Young girl swimming in a pool
Image ID: 25287
Young girl swimming in a pool
Image ID: 25290
Can you blow a perfect bubble ring underwater? I can. That’s right. This is a bubble that I made, like a smoke ring, except I blew it underwater. There’s a trick to making them, a way to snap your lips in a snarky, La-Jolla-socialite sort of way while exhaling that results in the bubble organizing itself into a ring. Once in a while I get a really perfect ring, a thing of beauty. A bubble ring is a stable toroidal air pocket that maintains its shape — even growing in diameter and rotating along its axis — as it ascends to the surface.
Underwater bubble ring, a stable toroidal pocket of air.
Image ID: 25282
