Brilliant America’s Cup Photos Taken From Land, Sea, and Air

For photographers, the problem with most sailing competitions is that the pictures begin to look the same from race to race – sailboats against a nondescript horizon of blue sky. The America’s Cup is different. Its backdrop is San Francisco’s iconic skyli

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/10/the-americas-cup-from-air-land-and-sea/?viewall=true

“The first week we had three photographers covering the race,” says Shaw, who covered the races starting back in July. “My boss at Getty Images gave us a budget to get up in a helicopter and we would rotate between the helicopter, the boat and land. I went up in the helicopter on the first day and it was spectacular.”