Smashing Time
The first event of the AUDI MedCup held in Cascais Portugal finished earlier this week, it was great to be back working for the event.
I arrived two days before the regatta was scheduled to begin. The day before the event started was high profile from a media perspective. AUDI SAILING TEAM POWERED BY ALL4ONE and AUDI AZZURRA SAILING TEAM were both being christened. The organisers had pulled out all the stops and we had German model, singer and actress Eva Padberg, actor Jean Reno, (star of Leon and The Big Blue) and Princess Zahra Aga Kahn involved in the ceremony. Apart from the small issue of either Eva Padberg or Princess Zahra Aga Kahn being able to smash the champagne bottles over the boats (and one of the bottles dropping in the water and sinking) the whole proceedings went off without a hitch.
I was keen to try out my new Eye-Fi/iPad set up for wireless image transmission back to the media centre. (I wrote about this in an earlier blog) The initial tests I did in the on land were very encouraging, it was very easy to upload images to an ftp site. When I got on the water things started to go astray, I managed to get two shots back to base but after that the wifi connection between the ipad and the Eye-Fi card dropped I was unable to get any more images from the camera. Before the next regatta will do some more tests. I also think I should be investing in a waterproof case for the iPad!
Anyone who has read my previous blogs will have had to endure my nerdy explanations of my workflow. Well I made a change during this regatta that eclipses all the changes made during the winter. I now edit my images while listening to Spotify (- a music streaming website). This has transformed the whole experience!
