Victory at Sea

Well with the hurricane swell coming in from Bertha it was time to head down to the beach again, this time sans surfboard. Mikes friend was going to let me try his daughters boogie board and I brought my 20D with the 24-105 in it's very bulky Ewa-Marine housing. Boogie boarding was a blast, but the current was fierce and it pulled us waaaaaay down the beach by the time you could say Rip Tide! Mike got worked pretty hard even once he got out past the surf zone and he got pulled nearly into "surfers end" from the tide and had to keep walking back to paddle back out. I finally stopped having fun on the boogie board (what an absolute blast!) and took the camera out and learned a very valuable lesson, which perhaps to some would have been pretty self evident...never hold a camera to your face to look through it when the surf is crashing on your head. Lets just say I saw stars and my nose is black and blue across the top but it's not broken.

So staying more inshore I did get this fun one of our friends daughter riding her boogie board:



I got one of the guys after they got out, you can see the major downfall of using the camera in the water and then taking it out-the beaded water on the lens in the blur that covers Jas' hand and the blur to the right of Mike's hand going up the beach:



It will take a lot more use to get used to that enclosure. Notes for next time include setting it for aperture priority at something like f16 or f22 instead of shutter priority at 1/250th to maximize my depth of field. As long as it's a sunny day it shouldn't be a problem. I will also need to get used to just pointing it and shooting it with it away from my body something that isn't all that intuitive to me.