Request for header image photos
evmo
SydneyAdmin
Thanks to the magic of PHP, we now have rotating banner photos at the top of the main MSF homepage, marathonswimmers.org at the top of each Forum page.
Currently there are just four Wikimedia Commons stock photos (see below). But we can do better!
I am not much of a photographer, but I know some Forum members are - including my partner in crime @loneswimmer. If anyone has any good marathon swimming-relevant landscape panoramas, please consider allowing them to be featured on the MSF homepage! The dimensions requirements are as follows:
minimum 1920 pixels width * 240 pixels height
OR a larger image that can be scaled down to 1920x240 (e.g., 4800x600, 4320x540, 4080x510, 3840x480)
OR a larger image that can be cropped to 1920x240
Please do not distort or scale-up photos beyond their original resolution in order to fit these dimensions!
If you have any good candidates, shoot me an email at evan at marathonswimmers dot org. Any contributions will be credited, of course.
Thanks!
Dover Harbour:
Point Vicente & Catalina Island:
Brooklyn & Manhattan Bridges, East River, NYC:
Strait of Gibraltar:
North Ave Beach, Chicago
Aquatic Park, San Francisco
Currently there are just four Wikimedia Commons stock photos (see below). But we can do better!
I am not much of a photographer, but I know some Forum members are - including my partner in crime @loneswimmer. If anyone has any good marathon swimming-relevant landscape panoramas, please consider allowing them to be featured on the MSF homepage! The dimensions requirements are as follows:
minimum 1920 pixels width * 240 pixels height
OR a larger image that can be scaled down to 1920x240 (e.g., 4800x600, 4320x540, 4080x510, 3840x480)
OR a larger image that can be cropped to 1920x240
Please do not distort or scale-up photos beyond their original resolution in order to fit these dimensions!
If you have any good candidates, shoot me an email at evan at marathonswimmers dot org. Any contributions will be credited, of course.
Thanks!
Dover Harbour:
Point Vicente & Catalina Island:
Brooklyn & Manhattan Bridges, East River, NYC:
Strait of Gibraltar:
North Ave Beach, Chicago
Aquatic Park, San Francisco
Comments
Evan, grab it from source if you want it. It's neither as bright nor as sharp as I'd like, but the difficulties of shooting off a boat in Dover combined with the 8:1 ratio...
loneswimmer.com
We now have 18 images in the header rotation on the marathonswimmers.org main site. You can see all of them, including credits, here:
http://marathonswimmers.org/forum-banner-photos
My original request remains active going forward. Please send along any good photos. I can take care of the cropping as long as the dimensions are large enough.
http://marathonswimmers.org/forum-banner-photos
Cap Griz Nez & south to Boulogne
Cap Petit-Blanc, both Shipping Lanes & The Separation Zone
Calais and English Channel Traffic
Also managed to get a bit more brightness out of the previous Channel Fleet pic. (Nothing I could do about the cropping).
loneswimmer.com
23 header images now in the rotation:
http://marathonswimmers.org/forum-banner-photos
Triple-Crowner Jim Neitz, swimming from Anacapa, escorted by Tom Ball:
Anacapa Island at sunrise, as viewed from the east end of Santa Cruz Island, with California mainland in background:
http://notdrowningswimming.com - open water adventures of a very ordinary swimmer
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
I believe that's this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/princesspolarbearcapri/7959036522/in/set-72157631473099738
I drove from ME to NYC for that (non) race.
Donaghadee Harbour in Northern Ireland, at dawn, with @Quinton's North Channel ex-RNLI boat The Guy & Clare Hunter just barely visible underneath the lighthouse.
Killantringan Lighthouse, north of Portpatrick (the Light isn't operational any longer).
Squall in the North Channel (Yes, I'm getting a bit arty with this one).
loneswimmer.com
I shot this one last weekend while on the way down to Sandycove for the Torture swim. (The full size panorama pic that I extracted it from is pretty large and is on my Flickr stream).
loneswimmer.com
Thanks Zoe and Mark!
All 30 of the header images can be viewed here:
http://marathonswimmers.org/forum-banner-photos/
@evmo, I submitted one, but have no idea if you ever got it. Is there a way to tell, without bugging you? I tried the link above, but it is no longer active.
We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams
@IronMike, I don't think we received anything from you, but thanks for bumping this topic in my mind. I've been meaning to put out another call for Forum banner photos.
The current rotation of Forum banner photos can be viewed here:
http://marathonswimmers.org/forum-banner-photos
To submit a banner photo to be added to the rotation, please PM me.
Thanks! It will be great to add some fresh pics to the top of this page!
The gorgeous new banner image you see at the top of the Forum today is courtesy of our resident photographer, @loneswimmer:
Tramore Bay, Copper Coast, Ireland
Banner images change daily at random. There are 31 currently in rotation, and you can view them all here:
http://marathonswimmers.org/forum-banner-photos
To submit one of your own, please PM me.
Another new banner photo in the rotation, courtesy of @AnthonyMcCarley. This is the east side of Santa Barbara Island during a relay swim he was involved in earlier this year.
Thanks, Anthony!
Thank you @FlowSwimmers for submitting today's banner photo of Flathead Lake, Montana.
Thank you @peterray61 for submitting today's banner photo - featuring @wendyv34 swimming in Quartermaster Harbor, Vashon Island, Washington.
That was last Friday, I hadn't seen the photo until now. It was such a lovely evening, one of our last summery days and the water was so perfect. I was definitely experiencing swimming nirvana at that moment.
It's always a bad hair day when you work at a pool.
Thanks @Copelj26 for submitting today's banner photo - taken at the Border Buster swim in Lake Memphremagog by his kayaker James Vanzant.
Wow, that is a beautiful image.
We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams
Thanks to my Kayaker from Border Buster for an awesome shot.
WOW! AMAZING picture! When I did the Border Buster a few years ago, it was foggy like this and really beautiful swimming. It makes my heart happy that someone captured what it was like on that day (and apparently other days, too). So good!