Rowing Pix & links to Pix! Post 'em here...

Alissa · Post by **Alissa** » March 17th, 2006, 12:28 pm

I'm reposting something I posted on the old forum to get us started. These are still beautiful images for those of you who are interested:

Posted by: Alissa Feb 15 2006, 10:25 PM

Especially for those of you going to Boston soon...

I saw a wonderful gallery of images titled: "Rowing on the Charles" with lovely morning & evening photos of (surprise) rowing on the Charles. I got in touch with the photographer and got permission to post a couple of them here:

©2004, Joseph Provenzano

but I encourage you to go to his gallery and see all of them...they're really something!

When you get to the gallery, be sure to click on the thumbnails so that you can get the full impact of the images in a larger size. Below the first one you open, select the image size that's best for your monitor. Once you've ID'd the best size for your viewing, you can then move from image to image with the "previous/next" links at the upper & lower right of each image in the gallery, and you'll be presented with the comparable size from each subsequent image.

While the two examples are of singles, not all of the images are...

Enjoy!

Alissa

ancho · Post by **ancho** » April 25th, 2006, 10:22 am

Hi, here I found 24+.

Try to flip in this one!

ancho · Post by **ancho** » April 25th, 2006, 11:00 am

Ever got a crab?

or want to complain about wind/waves?

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Jim Barry · Post by **Jim Barry** » April 25th, 2006, 11:01 am

www.nlroei.nl/Fotoboek-display-2235.html

I've always liked this picture of Derek Porter rowing. Great mental image to remind us to be firmly engaged when on the drive.

Byron Drachman · Post by **Byron Drachman** » April 25th, 2006, 1:24 pm

Here's one of my favorites. It's Teams A and B of the Pink Ribbon Crew during a regatta last fall in Lansing, Michigan. The photo was taken by Carol Johnson:

For more about this fabulous group of athletes, go here:

http://www.sass.msu.edu/PinkRibbonCrew.html

Byron

ancho · Post by **ancho** » April 26th, 2006, 9:57 am

Jim Barry wrote:www.nlroei.nl/Fotoboek-display-2235.html

I've always liked this picture of Derek Porter rowing. Great mental image to remind us to be firmly engaged when on the drive.

Incredible picture, no muscle fiber with no tension!

ancho · Post by **ancho** » May 15th, 2006, 11:37 am

135 years ago: rowing in the 19th century buy English realist artist Thomas Eakins:

Hasn't changed that much, has it?

csabour · Post by **csabour** » May 15th, 2006, 12:00 pm

picture 1 http://tk.files.storage.msn.com/x1pIuxx ... q88e419hfw

picture 2
http://tk.files.storage.msn.com/x1pIuxx ... FDSbk43Tlc

picture 3
http://tk.files.storage.msn.com/x1pIuxx ... fD6bzz34i4

these picture were taken may 2nd by my brother in the coach boat.

sorry about the urls... msn doesnt like to be linked

im in 3 seat by the way.

Alissa · Post by **Alissa** » May 15th, 2006, 12:02 pm

Ancho, I love your pictures...in this day & age of photoshopped pictures, it's lovely to see the symmetry in the "24+" and realize that it's the result of human coordination. But my favorite is the one you've ID'd as the "crab"...the intensity is beautiful!

Jim, when I was looking at that Derek Porter picture, all I could think about was the muscle tone (and the build-the-muscles-in-clay anatomy class I took...he could almost have been the model

). I hope the web site leaves that one up for a long, long time!

Byron, some pictures can't be separated from their backstory, once known. Thanks for sharing that picture and the story behind it with us.

csabour, thanks for sharing those pictures. Where are you rowing? The light was great.

Alissa

TPMcT · Post by **TPMcT** » May 15th, 2006, 12:30 pm

ancho wrote:135 years ago: rowing in the 19th century buy English realist artist Thomas Eakins. . .

Ahem [sound of foot tapping in the background]. That's American artist Thomas Eakins, from Philadelphia, some of whose rowing pictures are on display in the National Gallery here in Washington. A repro of The Biglin Brothers Racing was on display in just about everyone's dorm room way back when.

ancho · Post by **ancho** » May 15th, 2006, 12:40 pm

TPMcT wrote:
ancho wrote:135 years ago: rowing in the 19th century buy English realist artist Thomas Eakins. . .
Ahem [sound of foot tapping in the background]. That's American artist Thomas Eakins, from Philadelphia, some of whose rowing pictures are on display in the National Gallery here in Washington. A repro of The Biglin Brothers Racing was on display in just about everyone's dorm room way back when.

Sooo sorry, thought America hadn't been discovered by then...
Why did I think Biglin Bros were Belgians?
Memory sometimes betrays oneself tremendousely... I owe you a beer

ancho · Post by **ancho** » May 15th, 2006, 12:43 pm

One of my favourite ever rowung pics is a double scull race somewhere back in the 80's, Norway racing against German democratic Republic (DDR).
I used to have it on my school map.
Does anyone know the picture I'm talking about? (appeared in the FISA 1984 calendar), or better could anyone post a copy?

TPMcT · Post by **TPMcT** » May 15th, 2006, 1:01 pm

ancho wrote:
TPMcT wrote:
ancho wrote:135 years ago: rowing in the 19th century buy English realist artist Thomas Eakins. . .
Ahem [sound of foot tapping in the background]. That's American artist Thomas Eakins, from Philadelphia, some of whose rowing pictures are on display in the National Gallery here in Washington. A repro of The Biglin Brothers Racing was on display in just about everyone's dorm room way back when.

Sooo sorry, thought America hadn't been discovered by then...
Why did I think Biglin Bros were Belgians?
Memory sometimes betrays oneself tremendousely... I owe you a beer

I'll collect on that beer when you come to Princeton in September.

Here's something from the NGA Web site on the picture: http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/g ... 575.0.html

Actually, one thing has changed, and thank heavens for it. What you can't see from the Eakins pictures is that the rowers were "sliding" up and down on a smooth wooden board, with a leather seat on their shorts. It's hard enough these days with a rolling seat, don't you think?

TPMcT · Post by **TPMcT** » May 15th, 2006, 2:36 pm

Nacho got me thinking about depictions of rowing in art. Here's another one, and by a proper English artist, too:

Alfred Sisley, Regattas at Molesey (1874), in the the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

Kinley · Post by **Kinley** » May 15th, 2006, 3:03 pm

I have a Seurat poster in my erg room.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... at_026.jpg