Memorial Day Bike Race

Posted by Joe DiMaggio on June 1, 2012

To All The Ships At Sea

For the Last Three years my dear friend Brian has invited me to the oldest bicycle race in the US held in Somerville, N.J. on Memorial Day. Every year I promise to go and cancel because of this that or the other thing. This year I decided I was going to go and am extremely happy I went. Brian was not exaggerating it is an amazing experience. Hundreds of racers and thousands of spectators. Colorful is an understatement. Towards the end of the day, JoAnne and I ran into Dave and Linda. There may be a possibility next year of doing a Sports/Action semi-private workshop. Could be a lot of fun. It’s a great place to hone your eye hand coordination and to tweak your panning skills. Prepping for a rodeo shoot to be continued….

Queue the Rapids!

Posted by Joe DiMaggio on June 15, 2011

I was contracted by the Canadian Olympic Association to photograph basketball, boxing, soccer, track and field, and kayaking. I fell in love with kayaking and proceeded to kayak for the next 20 years and moved to ocean kayaking. One of the things that I used kayaking for was eye-hand coordination and remote photography. Will try to dig out some of the film- Yes, Alice, there was film in those days! I’ll see if I can show you a few examples. But, in the interim, every once and a while I like to take the rust off and go photograph kayaking. Here are a few frames. Hope you enjoy them. Shutter speed ranged between a 500 and 1000, ISO 200. 80 to 200 mm lens. Pick a number- f4.5.