Sat - September 8, 2007

Kayak and Canoe Paddling Video Clips, Movies and Animations - 2007



sticky pod camera mount I made my first paddling video clip when I got my first digital camera, Canon PowerShot S40 with a waterproof case. It was August of 2002 on the Boyd Lake in Colorado with my CLC Patuxent kayak.

Since then, I have been using different cameras for my paddling movies: Canon Optura Xi as a camcorder and as a recorder for a bullet cam, and then Pentax Optio WP and W10. I have been experimenting with different way to mount my cameras on a kayak or canoe including mini tripods, clamp tripods, foam and duct tape mounts, joby gorrillapods, and recently different mutations of the sticky pod.

At the beginning it was a lot of fun just to shoot something in motion ... More sophisticated editing and scripts came later.

You can find my older movies (up to early 2005) on the Mountain Wayfarer site. Newer ones appear in different video posts on Paddling with a Camera and Fitness Paddling blogs. I have a few movies posted on YouTube.com and Gather.com. They may be faster to download there than directly from my server, but a quality will be lower.

This post is my attempt to prepare a central catalog of my movies. I am starting with the current year and will go backward in time in subsequent updates. All recent movies are prepared in the wmv format for Windows Media Player.

kayak canoe paddling video clips

2007
Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon

10 Miles in 60 Seconds


A video animation from 180 frames shot from a deck of my Thunderbolt kayak during the 2007 Colorado River Race in Glenwood Canyon.

camera: Pentax Optio W10 mounted on a front deck with the 3 suction cup mount from Sticky Pod, interval model - picture every 30s
10Mb, wmv, download

paddling Thunderbolt kayak in Wyoming

Thunderbolt on the North Platte River


Video clip shot from the Thunderbolt kayak between Saratoga and Pick Bridge during training run before the 2007 Wyoming Outback Challenge.

camera: Pentax Optio W10 mounted on a kayak deck with the single suction cup mount from Sticky Pod
17.2 Mb, wmv, download

Rapier 20 in Glenwood Canyon

First Four Finishers in 2006 Colorado River Race


A small excerpt from a footage shot by Marcie Nolan at the finish of 2006 Colorado River Race from the Hanging Lake parking area.

8.2 Mb, wmv, download

Horsetooth Reservoir

Thunderbolt Kayak on Horsetooth


Launching Thunderbolt on the Horsetooth Reservoir from Lory State Park

camera: Pentax Optio W10 mounted on the stern kayak deck with the single suction cup from Sticky Pod + some "diving" footage
12.1 Mb, wmv, download

paddling Thunderbolt kayak in Wyoming

Thunderbolt and Ice


My first paddling on the Beaver Pond in Arapaho Bend Natural Area near Fort Collins, CO this year - just playing in a small area of free water and pushing the kayak through a soft ice.

camera: Pentax Optio W10 mounted on a front/stern deck and with the single suction cup sticky pod, no extensions
1 minute, 5 Mb, wmv, download

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