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Kate In Light

            So Kate, who is a local Bronte lass, was turning 60 in December and approached me to do a series of shots of her.  She is a tri-athlete, super super fit (time for me to stress that I am most definitely not ;)) and a big swimmer.  Kate was also off in early January to volunteer with Medecins Sans Frontiere, as she is a specialist in Infectious Diseases, for a year .....in Sudan!.

So I thought we had to do some in the ocean and she wholeheartedly agreed.  We had a short time capsule before she left and with underwater shots with people around here you got to be sort of prepared.  The tide has to be right, the light has to be right, the water temperature has to be right so swimmer/photographer can take lots of shots and be comfortable, water clarity has to be right with no rain for days before etc etc. 

We had a 2 hour window before she flew out one morning and she arrived down to Clovelly Beach, as triathletes often do, on her bicycle. It had been raining for a few days prior - the water was murky,  there was a north easterly...the water was the coldest in summer in years...totally freezing.  It was too early in the morning, lightwise for underwater, and the tide was too high.

I had a crazy sort of frozen smile on my face saying 'don't worry Kate, we will be fine', inside I am thinking this is a disaster.  We went in and the shots were not great...not great at all. A few moments later she said 'Rosie, I cannot do this - its too cold'.  I wrapped her in my big blanket towel and said we have to try one  more time in there.  Kate then started to do some advanced yoga movements to warm up...needless to say I did(nor could not) join her and proceeded to share with her, while she downward dogged, my secret to staying warm which is eating lots and lots of butter.  

In we go a few minutes later and for a few rare moments the sun shone through the murky waters and I got 'the shot' and gave her the thumbs up. I reckon because she was off to do such saintly work the gods shone on us for those few minutes to allow her to have an image of herself in cold cold water whilst she is camped out in the hot hot desert of Sudan. 

My cameras are amazing not just for the coolness of taking images but also they have have brought me in to contact with such amazing inspiring people like Kate.

Taken on: December 17, 2018

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Camera: LEICA CAMERA AG LEICA X-U (Typ 113), f/1.7, 1/800 sec, 23mm (=35mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	LEICA CAMERA AG LEICA X-U (Typ 113)
Lens:	23.0 mm f/1.7
Aperture:	f/1.7
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/800)
Focal Length:	23mm (35mm equivalent: 35mm)
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Light Source:	Unknown (249)
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Contrast:	High
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 7.0 (Macintosh)
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