W - Whitewater kayaking
Jun 25th, 2008 by Juha Ylitalo
In Mrs. Nesbitt’s ABC Wednesday, we’ve reached letter ‘W’. W could be used for wide range of topics: Winter, White, Wildlife, …. and at the sametime it seems that I’ve used quite many of those options within last couple months in this blog. As a result, I have to come up with something new and I finally chose W for Whitewater Kayaking.
This photograph was taken in iceBREAK 2007. iceBREAK is yearly event in Helsinki, where whitewater paddlers gather together in April, when the water is high, so that they can have fun in Vantaa river “delta”. In delta river is split to eastern and western branch. Western branch of river has old dam, which creates nice vertical drop, while eastern branch has more natural flow with rocks, etc. These rapids are classified to be III or IV+ depending on how much water is flowing in a river and whether you are going to paddle through the eastern or western branch of river.
I don’t have any personal experience from paddling these rapids, but it sure is fun to photograph paddlers, who are brave enough to go there in kayaks.
Technical information: Canon EOS 20D & Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM (109mm, 1/500s, f/5.6, ISO200)
great W wow wet shoot
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Wonderful for those who dare go kayaking. A very good shot!
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Well, this is the third whitewater shot I’ve seen this morning!
And a great and exciting shot it is… Looks terribly perilous.
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I’ve not seen these sport very often although they do it on an urban river not too far away from here. It looks good but personally appeals even less than potholing.
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Phew!
How exciting!
Couldn’t see me doing it now, maybes a few years ago!
LOL! I sound like my mother!
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Gorgeous pic.
White water kayak is very popular near Bourg Saint Maurice on the river Isere.
Great shot, looks fun, too!
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Great and very special W-choice! Awesome photo.
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