After a brief burst of summer, today's wild and windy weather was a cool reminder that although summer is over the fun never stops - as this dude was happy to exemplify.
I have always been frustrated taking photos of kite sailors. The large distance between sailor and kite means it is very difficult to get an image that shows it all in one frame. From the beach it is hard to capture the action so the logical thing to do is get in the water with them.
Wearing a nice warm wetsuit, a pair of fins and my camera safely protected I could get close to the action and take wide angle shots. My biggest fear was being run over in the process. In amongst the action it all happens very fast and I found that I really needed fast shutter speeds to avoid blur.
Perhaps 1/8000th of a second was a little overkill but I do love that frozen in time effect of water spray in mid motion.
Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 97 - Blown Away'. 1/8000 sec at 40mm f/5.6, ISO 800