Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Donal- I remember standing on the flight deck of the USS America CVA-66 during heavy weather. THere was white water coming OVER the bow, across the forward flight deck- which is usually 50' above the water line! I can't imagine tackling the open sea in anything shorter than about 1000' long after that! Scary! Dan ( My pants were wet... from the spray!) Post - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donal Philby" <donalphilby@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 3:47 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: Standalone Still fotos > Alan Hull wrote: > > > I realised many years ago the futility of trying to capture the immense power of the > >ocean in a still photograph. > > >Its the scale of the thing. A still foto of a storm on the open ocean > >looks like boating lake. Honest. > > Truth. I have a painting of Chichester's boat off Cape Horn hanging in > bedroom that does it, but few others. > > There is some video from the around the world racing that begins to > capture the awesome power of water. I've only once been in a storm > (peaking at 65 knots measured on deck) and remember watching the whole > boat disappear in a passing wave and the knotmeter peg at 12 knots in a > 26 foot boat and me up to my waist in water in the cockpit. But the > Leica was below!! > > A friend of mine sailed on Steinlager, the 60 foot New Zealand ketch a > while back in the Whitbread. He did the Cape Horn leg and remembered > driving (15 minute shifts max) the boat with spinnaker up in 50 knots of > wind, 40 foot waves and surfing this 60 foot, 30,000 pound board at over > 30 knots. He said it was the only thing better than sex he had ever > experienced. > > donal > __________ > Donal Philby > San Diego > www.donalphilby.com >