“We organize an annual swim across Lake Champlain and are looking for paddlers to escort swimmers,” said the post by Christophe Lissarrague on the Lake Champlain Kayak Club Meetup.
The 4th Annual Lake Champlain Open Water Swim took place on August 19, 2017 and I decided to join them. I ordered a waterproof stuff-sac for my camera and a deck compass just in case it got foggy.
Here’s a collection of the photos that resulted…
These images are reduced to 1024 pixels at 72 dpi for the web. Feel free to copy and share them as you like. Full-sized images, suitable for printing at 300 dpi are available upon request and with a free-will donation, a portion of which will be shared with Lake Champlain Committee.
Email me at sjk@designwise.net with any specific photo requests using the title number(s) below…-
Stephen Kastner is the founder of DesignWise Studios and Green Mountain Writers. His work spans storytelling, digital publishing, documentary filmmaking, photography, AI visibility strategy, and human-centered marketing. Beginning as a newspaper photojournalist in the 1980s and later building websites and online learning systems during the early internet era, he writes frequently about authenticity, media, communication, publishing, and the evolving relationship between technology and human identity.