{"id":3542,"date":"2010-05-23T22:35:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T05:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2020-03-08T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T00:04:18","slug":"sun-and-water-beget-th-summer-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/sun-and-water-beget-th-summer-girl.html","title":{"rendered":"Sun and Water Beget the Summer Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ferris<\/a><\/p>\n

Ferris wheel and fair rides at sunset, blurring due to long exposure.
\nImage ID: 20872<\/a>
\nLocation: Del Mar Fair<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(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.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Young<\/a><\/p>\n

Young girl swimming in a pool
\nImage ID: 25286<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Young<\/a><\/p>\n

Young girl swimming in a pool
\nImage ID: 25287<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Young<\/a><\/p>\n

Young girl swimming in a pool
\nImage ID: 25290<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Underwater<\/a><\/p>\n

Underwater bubble ring, a stable toroidal pocket of air.
\nImage ID: 25282<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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