Friday, March 16, 2012

Tubing

Rows of River Tubes, Whitewater River, near Harrison, Ohio  © Doug Hickok
(Click on image for larger view.)



Have you ever been tubing? When it is summer time, and the living is easy, and the fish are jumping, and the cotton is high, somewhere there is a quiet river for your tubing pleasure. Jump in a tube, guide it carefully into the river, and float on the cool, soothing waters, move lazily with the calming currents, as though you had not a worry in the world. It is the perfect way to cool off on a sunny summer day.

If you don't have a lazy river near you (or if it's still too darn cold) here are a few photography links to explore indoors.

Odd and quirky sums up these images from Poland.

See the amazing undersea work of Wayne Levin, especially his fish schools series.

Finally, we present the incredible minimalist images of Matthias Heiderich.


23 comments:

  1. It seems so fun!
    Cool colours. ;-)

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  2. The foto makes me happy.. !
    Greetings.

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  3. I love tubing down the old lazy river, great color Doug. Thanks for the links, great fish,,,M

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  4. No I haven't. Not on a river... On the sea, yes! Love the bright colours!

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  5. My tubing memories are from the original inner-tube days when we were kids, Doug...and we had none of these hi-falutin' fancy jobs. HA! Nothing like the lazy good ol' days. :)

    The links are fabulous. WOW. Thank you.

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  6. Very cool. Beautiful colors and composition.
    Agustín.

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  7. i'll have to add tubing to the bucket list.

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  8. Lovely colorful work...... nice done Doug.

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  9. Bonjour Doug,
    This is a very nice idea...ahhh Summer tubing! :)
    It is in my list of dreams for sure!
    Léia

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  10. Great image Doug. Wonderful fun colors!

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  11. good photo, great contracts and colors!

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  12. Tubing is a hoot summer or winter zipping down hill.

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  13. Love tubing on the Colorado with an extra tube tied to me to hold a 6 pack :) Much fun!

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  14. Lovely vivid and attractive colors

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  15. i can hardly wait the season for that

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  16. You really do have this talent for seeing the potential in absolutely any scene, Doug. Brilliant!

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  17. Yes, you mean YouTubing?
    I do it most days, not only in the summer.
    Hey, I saw this crazy Tube few days ago.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plIwegXI69I

    Have a good weekend!

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  18. I have NEVER been tubing! Wonderful colors in this image, Doug.

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  19. Love the repeating elements here. Another repeating element I love? Your weekly photo links. Awesome!

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  20. NIce find with this repetition; look like bubbles!
    Have a nice day.

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  21. nice shot! i prefer to go tubing in a waterpark, no crocs or other weird creatures lurking around.. ;D

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