Half of The Swimmers was shot from the shore. The other half needed me in the loch, at eye level with the people in it.
I used a soft housing made for snorkelling, a 35mm camera with a wide lens and a borrowed kayak for the deeper water.
What actually went wrong
Not the camera. My hands stopped working after fifteen minutes in January, so every swim became a fifteen-minute shoot.
Cold water edits for you. You only keep the frames you had time to make.
The kayak tipped once. The dry bag held.
Noor Halden
Portrait and documentary photographer in Glasgow, mostly on film.
