Photographed with a Canon Digital Rebel through a Kodak Duaflex at the Alameda County Fair in California.
I post processed this in Canon Digital Photo Professional to desaturate and increase contrast.
We call these things Chair-O-Planes in Ireland but I am not sure what they are called in the US. Wikipedia says they are also called swing carousels or wave swingers but I have never heard these terms.
More shots of this fairground ride.
In the interesting pages for for Aug 2nd 2006.
Update 9/7/07
Featured in the Through the Viewfinder Volume one book. This book is available on Blurb.
All photographs shown on Utata are stored on flickr. This photo and text © Dave Dunne.