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Lens Artists Challenge #362 – Sports and Sporting Events

Lens Artists Challenge #362 – Sports and Sporting Events

This week’s Lens Artists Challenge comes from Beth at Wandering Dawgs. It’s a good one, but alas, for me, a double or triple challenge – I have no sporting events to show. This surprised me, since I’m a huge sports fan, but after trolling through all my libraries I could find little. Then I hit on this idea: One of my favorite places is Newport, Rhode Island, on America’s eastern coast. Newport is widely regarded as the world’s sailing capital. I photographed a visit several years ago to what was once the International Yacht Restoration School, and is now the IYRS School of Technology and Trades. Students learn yacht building and carpentry, materials and composite science, yacht design (including digital design), and marine technology and engineering. So I’ve included some photographs below.

The feature image above was created with the aid of a generative AI (Adobe Firefly). It took a good number of tries to get the prompt right and to produce just this image (so I can claim a bit of my creativity in the process).

The Coronet, an 1885 schooner, is the largest and oldest grand schooner yacht. It is being rebuilt and restored by the IYRS School of Technology and Trades. Below are a couple of images of the hull being rebuilt.

Each student is responsible for designing and building a sailboat. The day that I visited, the school was on a midterm break, and so the pictures don’t show students at work. Nevertheless, here are some images around the work areas of the school.

So that’s my (albeit limited) offering for this week’s challenge. Thanks to Beth for her challenge and thoughtful ideas and images. Next week, Anne will bring us a challenge. If you would like more information on the Lens Artists Challenge, go here.

Joanne

14 responses to “Lens Artists Challenge #362 – Sports and Sporting Events”

  1. Wandering Dawgs

    Joanne, thanks for this great response to the challenge. The boat designers and builders are an important part of the sport of sailing. It must have been fun seeing all of the different. boats.

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    1. Joanne

      Thanks, Beth.

      Reply
  2. Steve Hyde

    What an interesting blog. Build a boat, that must be quite something. Loads of transferable skills there as well. I’d love to have a go at that 🙂

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    1. Joanne

      Thanks, Steve. The interesting thing about the school is that students get trained for so many different trades, all of which go into boat building (the focus is on yachts).

      Reply
  3. Anne Sandler

    Very interesting Joanne! Nice images.

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    1. Joanne

      Thank you, Anne.

      Reply
  4. photobyjohnbo

    Joanne,
    Yachting is a competitive sport, and many competitors start by building their yachts! Certainly an interesting facility. I bet that rebuilt boat will be fast.

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    1. Joanne

      Thanks for your comment, John. So true.

      Reply
  5. Sofia Alves

    Nice take on the challenge and such an interesting subject. Your AI image is better than most, I took it for the real thing 🙂

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    1. Joanne

      Thanks for your reply. This image is with Adobe Firefly, one of the newer ones; it’s amazing how “good” the AI renders are getting. Appreciate your note on the rest.

      Reply
  6. Ritva Sillanmäki Photography

    Joanne, love the first image. I have a thing for sailboat…always works for me.

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    1. Joanne

      Thank you, Ritva!

      Reply
  7. Leya

    Interesting and beautiful, Joanne!

    Reply
    1. Joanne

      Thank you, Leya!

      Reply

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