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Enlarged, you will see a second (?) person on this paddleboard. I could not figure it out at first, but the only answer is the HDR, which is built into the Leica, kicked in and merged this picture with two visible figures. This is a sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean, Florida, USA.
Stand up paddleboarding or SUP is getting more and more popular. Here's a zoom of a boy and his dad this morning at Laguna Beach. To see how far out they were see photo below in comments:
We were astonished to see this foursome working in unison to propel the paddleboard along the River Crouch at Hullbridge in Essex.
I've noticed a lot of paddleboard photos lately and I know of at least 3 good reasons why.
1. Paddleboarders start at the shore and paddle out. Surfers start in the waves and by the time they get close enough to the shore to take a decent picture, they're through doing the cool stuff. When surfers turn around to paddle back out, all you can get is shots of their butt crack.
2. Paddleboarders move slowly. That means you don't have to muck around with speed settings and high ISO's and other things that increase your chance of blurry photos. I typically get blurry photos of fast moving items like brick walls so I can use all the help I can get.
3. There's millions of them. Because it's the new cool thing to do, paddleboarders are like mosquitos. If you're in a watery area, it's likely there will be a paddleboarder near you, more likely there will be 20 or 30. They had a guy at my hotel pool who's only job was to keep paddleboarders out of the shallow end. True story.