Commercial and Editorial Photographer » Freedom http://www.thomaspickard.com/blog Blog of Photographer Thomas Pickard Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:40:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Jump http://www.thomaspickard.com/blog/2011/06/jump/ http://www.thomaspickard.com/blog/2011/06/jump/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:03:45 +0000 Thomas Pickard http://www.thomaspickard.com/blog/?p=3020 ]]> I took this photo last Wednesday, while treading water for 45-minutes waiting for paddlers to paddle past the Boiler (that’s the shipwreck sticking out of the ocean in the photos below), when a man swam past me, climbed the Boiler and leapt off it. Just like that.

That man turned out to be Sonny.

At 57 years old, Sonny is the oldest ocean paddler in Rarotonga. Having missed the start of the Vaka single paddling race, Sonny decided to swim out to the Boiler, climb it and jump off it. Something he does each time he swims to the Boiler.

If that isn’t living, then I don’t know what is.

Man jumping off the Boiler, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

Sonny jumping off the Boiler, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. © www.thomaspickard.com

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Sail Away Cook Islands
“Sail Away”. Cook Islands. © www.thomaspickard.com

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Just add you…

Infinity Pool at Lily Beach Resort, Maldives.

Infinity Pool at Lily Beach Resort, Maldives.

Pool side Lily Beach Resort, Maldives.

Pool side Lily Beach Resort, Maldives.

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