Slacker

This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

This activity is actually called slack lining, and is quite a challenge (I had a try, but didn't manage to go anywhere).

Pentax K-x - 1/180 sec - f/? - ISO 200 - ~15mm

Backlit by the sun, pop-up flash for fill.

Used GIMP to adjust curves, crop, scale and watermark for web.

I shot this with such a wide angle lens that my flash didn't even cover all of the subject (who only took up a small part of the frame). Have a look at his left hand. That, incidentally, is what the rest of him would have looked like if I hadn't used the flash. In future I'll be more aware of the limitations of flash when shooting wide, and maybe try to get the subject inside the flash zone (complicated by the fact that it isn't in the centre).