Abingdon Spring Head

Abingdon Spring Head 2012-Div01 - Images by Rob Bowker

I just worked out (assuming I get my decimal points in the right place) that yesterday I spent 8 hours on the banks of the Thames to produce less than 3 seconds work. That's 1576 photos at roughly 1/500 second each. This got whittled down to 852 photos, so the fruits of my labour amount to under a couple of second's worth of action. Then there's the next 8 hours editing, uploading and marketing...

Just goes to show how your mind wanders between divisions. Mental maths doesn't keep you warm, but it takes your mind off the biting North wind.

Speaking of which, Divisions 2, 3 and 4 will be live online before noon today.

Results on Abingdon RC's website

PS: 10% of all profits from the sale of these images goes to Wallingford RC's Weights Shed Appeal.

Thames Valley Trial Head

Marlow Thames Valley Trial Head '12 - Images by Rob Bowker

 Divisions 2 and 3 coming soon - click to shop

500 crews braved the water at Dorney on a day when the sun failed to make any meaningful appearance. Lots of wooly hats, red noses and a frozen photographer or two. Hope the weather improves for the Olympics.

Wycliffe Small Boats Head 2011

Another weekend, another head. This time between the banks of the Gloucester-Berkley Canal, Gloucestershire. Competitors rowing towards the weak winter sun.

Hundreds more photos from this event here.

Wallingford Head of the River 2011

STOP PRESS: Photoshelter WRC-HOR11 galleries get 4,438 image views in first 24 hours - 6,465 image views in first 60 hours!

 

Oxford Brookes University's Mens elite coxed eight. Hundreds more photos here.

 

 Shiplake College's Novice coxed eight. Hundreds more photos here.

Wallingford Head 2011-Div1 - Images by Rob Bowker

Small boats

Photos of rowers in extremis on the River Thames on Sunday. Approaching and then disappearing at speed. Full set here.

 

Fame at last

...well, anonymity, at least.  Some pics I donated on request to Thames Valley Park Regatta website. A picture credit would have been polite, but that's a big ask.

The full set from the June 2011 Thames Valley Regatta in Reading is available here.

Wallingford R C Long Distance Sculls - photos available

Wallingford LDS 2011-boats 002-129 - Three more volumes available in my PhotoShelter galleries

Wallingford Rowing Club Long Distance Sculls

01 October 2011 - watch out for the full set, coming up on PhotoShelter by Monday morning right now!

Thames Valley Park

Abingdon School's eight boating at the junior regatta in Reading. Print available