Paraglide by the Dashboard Light

Late yesterday morning I was just finishing my Arnold Palmer at one coffee shop and had two hours to go before meeting my cousin at another coffee shop in Cannery Row. As I took my last sip, Muse knocked. It was at the door telling me to drive up Highway 1 toward Santa Cruz for a quick image capturing session. I had no idea what I was looking for; I just got in the car and started to drive. It only took about 4 or 5 miles until I spotted some paragliders over the the Fort Ord Dunes.

I made my way over there (not as easy as one might think), parked and grabbed my camera. When I got up to the dunes, two paragliders came gliding up the coast. One of them - in the video below - gave me a 20 minute show. As a result, I captured 127 images and this 1 minute video. The images are done in HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. For more on HDR Photography, I recommend Trey Ratcliff's Stuck in Customs site.

Here are some of the top images and beneath them is the You Tube video (the rest of the images can be viewed at PulseImages.net):

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Images and video were captured with my Canon T3i. © Heather Hummel/Pulse Images