Beth Parker-Rowing 2009

"There is no better full-body workout than rowing. Not even swimming or cross-country skiing requires the expenditure of more kilojoules. But the same thing that makes rowing beneficial and beautiful also makes it difficult and frustrating: the stroke."

Source: Healthy Lifestyle-The Preferred Online Resource

I have never seen one person desire and achieve things quite like Beth Parker. Last winter she decided she wanted to learn to play the banjo and play it in the Christmas concert at Crosspoint. She did. The same thing happened with rowing. She thought of rowing as not only pretty to watch but as a great workout so...
...within weeks she had the art of rowing mastered. Early this year she attended a rowing camp in Florida and in April asked me to photograph her on the water.

I've tried to desire rowing...but its not my kind of workout....to say the least. I'll just enjoy it vicariously through Beth.