A few days ago I helped Chris Barr cover We Fix Ugly Pools' attempt to break the world-record for the fastest built swimming pool. Bet you didn't know they had a record for that, did you? Me neither.
To cover it, we set up two synchronized cameras on roofs overlooking the pool area and took 4 bracketed shots every 10 minutes. In between climbing a sissor-jack onto the roof to check on a time-lapse camera (wrapped in a ziplock bag and shaded by a gobo), I did the event photography. Got quite a work-out, and sweated like a pig the whole time.
We got to the site at 4am to set up the time-lapse cameras. It was to become a brutally humid & HOT day.
6am:
Shooting the gunite:
A frame from one of the time-lapse cameras:
One of the time-lapse cameras.
Plastered...
The Phoenix Fire Dept filled the pool from a hydrant in minutes.
After a beehive of activity and six manic hours later, the pool was full of water and we were spent.
12:30 pm - the homeowner and just SOME of the workers who made it happen.
1 comment:
Great, but did they break the record????
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