One of the vastly underappreciated sports out there is rowing, a beautiful and graceful sport with an underlying reality of brutal training regimens, early-morning practices and harsh weather. The Washington State University team is one of the best in the Pac-10, and hence in the top tier nationally.

I shot this with a standard-def Sony DCR-SR200 and edited it in Final Cut. A major challenge was just getting steady shots, being whipped around in the coach's chase boat and bouncing over waves. Sound was another challenge, but engine noise was unavoidable.