Stops 3 and 4 -July 12th and 13th - Winlock Waters, WA.

Stops 3 and 4 are in the book, and if you can't wait to see some of the pictures, link to this site and start looking.

Barb and I arrived a little before three PM on Friday afternoon, but of course, Mike Johnson had beat us there. Will have to try harder the next time. We got to talking to Bill and Kathy Strom about Barb's secret desire to compete and not tell Karen that she was going to. At this point, Barb had not yet managed to stay up very long on one ski, but Bill assured her it was a piece of cake, and before we knew it we were on the lake trying to get Barb up. After only a few attempts, Barb was up and flying, and now the decision had to be made if she really wanted to compete on Saturday morning.

The rest is history, and with the help of Mike Johnson, and the whole INT crew, Barb followed Karen on Saturday morning, and Karen didn't have a clue. In fact she headed strait for the Coach after her run, and Mike had to page her that she was needed on the docks, so that we could get some pictures of her expression. If you want to read about the whole experience in Barb's own words, link to this site.

It was a busy weekend for me taking pictures. The count was a bit over 5000, with over 2000 and Saturday and 3000 on Sunday. I'm using a different camera this year, and it was really the first time that I got to really put it to the test. I must say that I was very happy with the results. The camera I got was a 3 year old Canon 1D Mark II, which is the professional sports model. It has 3 record modes. One shot, low speed (three frames per second), and high speed (8.5 frames per second. Low speed is ideal for skiers and high speed is awesome for wake boarders. The buffer is over 40 pictures, which gives me 5 seconds of continuous shooting. Of course, if you hold it down for that long, then you lose the buffer and have to wait to shoot, but by taking short bursts, it was awesome.

I got most of the skiers on Saturday AM, and all the wake boarders in one boat in the PM. Then On Sunday I got all the skiers up to the point that I missed on Saturday, and all the wake boarders in the other boat in the PM. In all, I think that I got at least one sequence of each person that competed.

I do not know all the names of the competitors, and have used some generic terms to describe them. If you will e-mail me with the generic term and the real name, I will make the necessary corrections on the album descriptions. At this point, (Monday PM), I have all of Saturdays pictures posted. Hopefully by the time you read this, Sundays will also be on line.

I will be selling pictures and CD's again this year, so check out the side bars to see what specials I might be running.



Dick Borden