One of BC Ferries newest ships in their fleet, the Coastal Celebration.
A coastal celebration indeed. Indeed. Spent a couple days in Victoria knocking out some photography for the 2009 Swiftsure International Yacht Race. Timing was excellent having my first go at sailing photography a week prior during Jamie & Cathy’s wedding day, so I was experienced here – how much, however, is completely irrelevant. Swiftsure is a pretty huge deal over here on the west coast of North America as far as sailing races go, and the entire city had a buzz to it all weekend long. My most gracious thanks goes out to Jamie & Alex for getting me involved and having me so well tended to all weekend.
Here I am (front) on my little boat for the day, using a zoom. EWW!
All our photography from Swiftsure 2009 is now available here.
I’m still thrilled Anna decided to join me for the event, she has some spectacular photography of her own from a press boat she was taken out on, and trooper she is – rocked just the 135L on the water. She also is one of those people who love to deny any sort of talent for being in front of the camera, at all, so I’m on a mission to prove her wrong until she leaves in a week. Check out the HD video of her on Coastal Celebration rockin’ the west coast. LOVE IT! And please, Canon, just release the firmware update for manual video controls already, it’s killing me!
Great shots Sean! I’m so jealous. Wish I was there. Where did you acquire the 70-200 from. Played with the 4.0 IS version this past week. I know you hate zooms, but man is that thing sharp.
Cheers, M.
Okay, fine! I kinda like these photos… so that’s it, you don’t have to take any more of them. :) And your Swiftsure photos are just amazing, seriously, love all of these!
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Wow… 5D2 + 70-200/2.8… jealous! Nice and sharp photos! Oh, and nice photos of Anna, cute!
My gosh Sean these are beautiful!
Very cool! I love the light coming through the sails in some of these images. And the glassy water. And the snow-capped mountains. Stunning! The sixth from the bottom is my favorite, it has it all! :D
Truly breathtaking Sean. My favorite is the 13th one down with the 2 yachts (#582 & #46724). Oh and that video of Anna is CRYSTAL CLEAR! It’s like I’m right there on the ship.
Stunning shots!!! seriously beautiful, I LOVE every single one of them Sean! Great work!
Wow!!! #13 is perfection! And I love how line of the boats reflection in #14 draws your eye towards the boat. Love these!
Nice work again young man! Tough shooting off a boat isn”t it?! Good horizons and great composition!! Nice abstracts on the Coastal Celebration too!
You came by and took several pictures of our boat (a light blue, Ranger 33) with a young girl steering. If you can find any I am interested in buying.
I love the rippled reflection of the single sail on the water. Also the mountains in the background.