Untitled (Bondi Baths, Sydney, Australia) 2007
by Carlo van de Roer

Is it Spring yet? It just might be. We're being teased mercilessly here in NYC, where it's been brilliantly sunny, yet not quite warm enough, for seemingly forever (and today.) I have a feeling that it'll switch over to swelter overnight, and swimming season will be upon us.

Untitled (Bondi Baths, Sydney, Australia) 2007, our second offering from Kiwi shutterbug Carlo Van de Roer's Swim series, is a well-suited accompaniment to this line of thinking, wouldn't you say? (Note: I just can't help myself with the puns, it's practically a sickness. Brace yourselves, there's more.)

Carlo's first edition, Untitled (Astoria Park, Queens, New York), made quite a splash when we introduced it just before Christmas. The entire edition sold out in short order; clearly, everyone was into the pool.

20x200 collectors have been thirsting for more ever since, so while Carlo and I were hanging out at Fotofest in Houston, we fished out another fine specimen to offer from the series. We chose Untitled (Bondi Baths, Sydney, Australia) 2007 because aside from having pools and swimmers in common, this image is clearly the best mate to Astoria's composition.

Ok, basta with puns. I've got a huge backlog of email to dive into and schedules to synchronize. I set sail for San Francisco on Tuesday, so the crew and I are rushing to get everything ship shape before I go. (Of course I'm not sailing, but you know...)

Ahoy till next week, mateys!