©Mark Jardine

Apologies to Sven Forense (CRO 142) for using this photo ! Mind you, what a lovely paint Job on your VISS, Sven !! Fabulous contrasting fin-job!

We’ll look silly if this was taken by somebody other than Mark Jardine of Yachts&Yachting fame. Mark took many brilliant photos at the IOM Worlds and this one photo captures it all for me. Very low elevation, up very “close”, camera down at surface level almost, from the RIB I’d guess. brilliant action and depth of field. Our sport is very challenging to photograph well, but go looking for Mark’s IOM photos in the Worlds Website gallery. (www.iomworlds2026.com)

So just how did Mark take that photo? I had to ask him.

I was expecting to see some big Nikon with spectacular long zoom lens, maybe in some kind of waterproof case?

Not a bit of it. Mark reached into this pocket and pulled out one of these.

https://www.dji.com/ch/osmo-pocket-3

Lean over the side of the RIB, close to the surface – view the little screen – and shoot.

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