It ain’t over til it’s over.
While shooting an assignment for United Airlines I had gone to Ho’okipa Beach on the north shore of Maui to photograph windsurfers. Ho’okipa is regarded as the best place in the world for this sport. The international championship was just a couple of weeks away, so all the best windsurfers were there practicing.
It was late in the afternoon and incredibly overcast; about as gray a day as it gets in Hawaii. As a result, all my fellow photographers standing all around me had decided to leave. Since one of my long time favorite Personal Pearls of Wisdom is, “It ain’t over til it’s over”, and one I’m always sharing both with my online classes with the BPSOP, and in my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshops I conduct around the planet, I followed my own advice and stayed.
I had My 600mm F/4 Nikor lens and body mounted on my tripod and I was watching these three windsurfers go through their trial run. I was basically watching them as though I had a pair of binoculars; purely for interest.
As I was following them, the sun poked it’s face out for just a couple of minutes, and during that time the windsurfers moved around to create a triangle, while being backlit. Since I teach my fellow photographers how to incorporate the basic elements of visual design into their imagery, and Shape is one of them, I’m always on the lookout. FYI, the four basic shapes are: squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles.
I was very lucky to get this shot, and as Eddie Adams ( a Pulitzer prize winning photographer) once said, “When you get lucky, be ready”. So, the next time you’re out shooting and the weather isn’t cooperating, stick around and see what happens because you just never know. Always remember that “it ain’t over til it’s over”.
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