Gybing

Just a few gybe pictures from last week...

Volvo Ocean Race Boston Stopover

The seven open 70s still competing in the volvo ocean race left for Galway (Ireland) today, ending their almost three week stopover in Boston. The race is a highly competitive nine month race in some of the most advanced boats in the world. Currently, Ericsson 4 is leading overall, but Telefonica Blue is winning the current leg.

I went down to watch the boats leave and also got to see a pair of Moths (one of them being Anna Tunicliffe - gold medal laser sailer) sailing around. Moths are cool because the whole hull lifts out of the water, and the boat is sailed on a hydrofoil, which means there's hardly any drag. Check out this clip of a moth sailing.

I shot all these photos from shore, would have loved to be on a press/spectator boat but no such luck. You really don't realize how fast the open 70s go until you actually see them in person. Click on the photos to see a bit larger versions. Enjoy.

Chi Phi Live

Old pictures, from Chi Phi Live back in November. There were 7 or 8 bands from various fraternities playing on two stages.

RPI Autocross

It's been quite a while since I've taken any photos, and the weather is getting nice so I went out to see the RPI sportscar club run laps around a course they set up in the parking lot behind North Hall. It was pretty exciting to watch, and there were a bunch of nice cars there. I only took a few pictures - it was just so bright out, and here they are.

I've got another very busy week of school and then summer. This past semester has been really busy, and I lost a lot of photos when my hard drive crashed but I'm going to try and get some more pictures up in the next week or two.

Duxbury - Shipyard and the Newport boat show

I went home this past weekend to see some people and go to the Newport boat show. I got out saturday evening to take some photos (below). I went to shipyard because I didn't have much time and wanted to go somewhere I haven't shot before. I got a couple shots but I was too late to get any real nice light.

The boat show was awesome - the forecast was for rain but we arrived at about 11:00, when the rain stopped. We got to see all of the boats in the water, from small sailboats like the Dyer dinghy to much more expensive boats including the $2.4 million motorboat M2-60 and the Friendship 40 - my favorite in the show. After the boat show we got to walk the docks of the Newport Shipyard. There were a bunch of very nice boats in the water such as Speedboat/Virgin Money and a dozen or so huge custom wooden cruising yachts. After this, I had to make a stop at Onne van der Waal's gallery located right on the waterfront. He is an incredible photographer and specializes in sailing photography. I recommend checking out his gallery in person, but if you can't do that his website will suffice. Newport is a great day trip if you're interested in sailing. Just walking down the docks at the Shipyard is an experience.

I'm currently working on changing my website to be a bit easier to navigate and update. I hope to have that updated by tomorrow.

Edit: I have updated my main site. Changes include an easier to navigate galleries section with more content, and a larger button for the blog, as well as a few minor changes.

DBMS Photos: Top 10

I have finally picked out my 10 favorite photos from this summer.

I had a great time coaching and taking photos, and some of the pictures made it in here just because I thought they were funny...

11. Scotty flipped during thursday race day

10. Thunderstorms rolling through in the beginning of the summer


9. Throwing down serious windward heel

8. Haha...

7. Rounding the downwind mark at the DBMS regatta

6. Pram Power!

5. Keeping the boat flat in 25-30 knots at thursday race day

4. DBMS Regatta

3. Big roll tack

2. Intensity


1. Hiking hard in 25+


Once again, if you have any interest in prints or contacting me see the post below this one. Thanks.

An update on what I'm doing

So I've been back at college for a week now, and everything is going pretty smoothly. Unfortunately, we don't yet have any internet/TV set up at our apartment yet - that won't be done until as late as Thursday this week, so I am only able to access email and the internet from campus, which is a pain.

I am going to be doing a DBMS wrap up blog post with 10 of my favorite pictures from the year. It's going to be tough narrowing down the 300 or so photos that I like to only 10.

To parents of DBMS students - I have a LOT of photos from this summer (I submitted around 200 or so to the slideshow, but I have at least a thousand photos total). If you want to see photos of your kid and possibly order prints, just send me an email. I have actually categorized all the photos by student, which means that if you email me their name I can host a private gallery of their images for you to look through (categorization is only for the kids I know/have taught). Alternatively, you can just look through the photos I took this summer (these are the ones I submitted to the slideshow).

I am currently working on an update to my site to make it easier to view galleries and order prints, as well as for me to update. Currently its a bit tough to navigate and was really just created to showcase some of my images as a sort of online portfolio. Now I'm trying to transition into more of a print ordering and gallery based site which will be easier for me to update and categorize.

I haven't really been doing any major editing of my photos lately, but I did used to be pretty into graphics design and photoshop. I was playing around with a windsurfing photo the other day and am pretty pleased with how my edit came out (see the end of the post - you can click to enlarge them).

I really enjoy sailing photography and hopefully will get the opportunity to do more of it next summer. If I could find a boat to shoot from I'd be interested in doing a few regattas and hopefully some big boat racing next year.