Gone Swimming by taffy

Gone Swimming

While we were waiting for the tornado to pass by (and, luckily, miss us entirely), Danbo spent the time practicing his breathing technique -- he knows he won't be able to be competitive until he gets better at it. Then a little later, he went riding in a bubble - http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2013-11-17
Brilliant :)
November 18th, 2013  
Phew, that's good about the tornado!

Danbo is doing great - very cleverly done, Taffy.
November 18th, 2013  
One of the coolest Danbos yet! Thank goodness that tornado passed!
November 18th, 2013  
Cute shot
November 18th, 2013  
keep up the good work Danbo :)
November 18th, 2013  
Love this Taffy! Your a champ Danbo - eye of the tiger! : ) fav
November 18th, 2013  
Great Danbo shot!!
November 18th, 2013  
Ha, cuteness! Totally see those bubbles in that wrap. Glad the worst of the storms are done. Not a fun day for my SO to be driving back from Indianapolis!
November 18th, 2013  
*You're* even!!! Been a long day! : ))
November 18th, 2013  
Caz
Love it ! I'm glad the tornado passed you by, what a relief for you.
November 18th, 2013  
Kev
Cleverly done and love the blue tones.
November 18th, 2013  
so glad you were not affected by it! scary stuff! I was a Red Cross Volunteer and went to tornado aftermath...such devastation!
November 18th, 2013  
cool
November 18th, 2013  
Glad you weren't affected, Taffy! My son and daughter-in-law were in Chicago this weekend for a science and technology tradeshow - they did make it home to Kansas City - luckily reservations were out of Midway and not O'hare. Love the capture!
November 18th, 2013  
Mac
Now that is just ingenious! Bubble wrap?! Brilliant!
November 18th, 2013  
Taffy! You are so clever - I would have loved to have watched you put this one together!
November 18th, 2013  
Kim
Pretty scary weather. How did you do this? It's so clever.
November 18th, 2013  
another clever one. like it.
November 18th, 2013  
So clever! Is it blue bubble wrap?
November 18th, 2013  
Brilliant colors, awesome composition! Clever action looking shot!
November 18th, 2013  
I love your creativity with Danbo, love that blue, what is it?
November 18th, 2013  
@riverlandphotos @jyokota @janine3 @susale
Thanks for visiting, viewing, commenting, and making my evening! Here's what I did:
1. Moved Danbo's joints to mirror the crawl swim stroke
2. "Submerged" him in bubble wrap with really large bubbles so he could 'swim'
3. Shot several photos to try to capture the movement
4. Downloaded and processed using a blue filter
5. Removed the blue from the filter that was on Danbo's face and arm
If I'd had time, I would have imported to snapseed so that I could have used the blur edit to make the "water" look smoother.
November 18th, 2013  
@taffy oh, so this is what you were referring to when you said you learned to "remove" but not "erase" in particular spots. Oh, the things we learn in this project, and Danbo has proven himself very helpful in having you learn new things to create his stories in images!
November 18th, 2013  
Brilliant, very, very clever. :)
November 18th, 2013  
Fun and creative image, I really love the colours!
November 18th, 2013  
Such a good idea! I love the processing.
November 18th, 2013  
Beautiful focus and colours. Well done.
November 18th, 2013  
What a lovely shot. Good old Danbo is game for anything.
November 18th, 2013  
It's very important that he gets a good and natural stroke as well as learn that breathing technique lol Wonderful image :)
November 18th, 2013  
That is excellent. Awesome
November 18th, 2013  
What a crazy but super shot
November 18th, 2013  
love the colours! =)))
November 18th, 2013  
clever - love the colors...
November 18th, 2013  
very cool shot! luckely the tornado missed you!!
November 18th, 2013  
haha....yep! Danbo is growing on me. Didn't quite "get" him at first, but he is becoming very endearing. Glad he is learning to swim. Glad the tornado missed you also!! When I first started 365 someone posted about a tornado. I said I was really glad we didn't have them in the PNW. We were on our way home from our winter trip. No five minutes later I turned on the news and there was a small tornado that did some damage near Salem Oregon just that day!! It was kind of creepy
November 18th, 2013  
Clever idea excellently executed. Wonderful blue.
November 18th, 2013  
Danbo your doing good, keep practising!
November 18th, 2013  
Very clever! Love the use of the bubble wrap (took me a moment to work it out). Creative. Danbo as he has never been seen before!
November 18th, 2013  
Haha! Great shot.
November 18th, 2013  
Such a fun and clever idea.
November 18th, 2013  
@colie Thanks for your visit and comments today Colie! Good to 'see' you and I always appreciate how supportive you are!
November 18th, 2013  
@anazad511 Thanks Ana! I'm looking forward to more of your posts for Costa Rica.
November 18th, 2013  
Lovely shot!
November 18th, 2013  
He's brilliant - Hello Get Pushed partner! I issued this challenge last week and I like it so much you're going to get it too! what gets in the way of your get-Pushed Project?! Can be one thing or lots...just have fun! :0)
November 18th, 2013  
Relieved to hear you are OK. Cute Danbo shot!
November 18th, 2013  
This is so brilliant. My favourite Danbo yet.
November 18th, 2013  
@nicolaeastwood Oh, so many things do get in the way, but how to portray them? This will be fun!
November 19th, 2013  
@danitech Thanks Danielle -- it was scary for a bit but ended quickly for us. We were very fortunate.
November 19th, 2013  
Very creative and seems like it was the perfect thing to take your mind off the weather. Cute- he really does look like he's swimming.
November 19th, 2013  
love the idea! very creative Danbo shot! fav for me! and glad that you are ok!
November 19th, 2013  
hahaha great idea and shot!
November 19th, 2013  
Joe
Awesome! Love the Danbo adventures. :)
November 19th, 2013  
Oh my! That's very clever! you did come with excellent idea! Glad you are safe.
November 20th, 2013  
@michaelelliott Thanks Michael -- it's nice to see you are still on the site even though you aren't posting (I miss your photos!). I appreciate your comments, as always.
November 20th, 2013  
What a great Danbo shot! So creative!
November 20th, 2013  
love the creativity and execution. I like all the processing your are experimenting with.
November 26th, 2013  
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