Website to waste time: Leisure Dive

They might look like extremely professional photoshop jobs, but the collection of brilliant pictures published on Leisuredive.com are the product of a little bit of imagination and excellent timing.

Flick through your holiday snaps over the years and you’re bound to come across plenty of images of you or your buddies jumping, diving or cannon-balling into a swimming pool somewhere.

It’s great fun at the time, but then you look back at yourself pulling a ridiculous face, cringe a little and think that you were probably better off sticking to taking pictures of the sights and the attractive women you more than likely encountered during your time abroad.

Pool photos don’t always have to be embarrassing or cringeworthy, however, particularly if you have a photographer with brilliant timing and a subject with enough athletic ability to suspend themselves in mid-air for the fleeting time between the initial leap and the time they hit the water.

That might sound a bit hard to understand, but a few illustrations might help us to get a better picture across.

The classic one person lounging on the couch pose is most common...

But there are also group efforts...

And people prepared to be that little bit more imaginative...

The best efforts are featured in the top dives section of the site, while in the Nice Tries section there is also appreciation for some worthy attempts...

And some not so worthy...

Visitors to the site are invited to submit pictures and videos of their own to add to the impressive collection there already and judging by the lack of pasty white bodies on show, we can only guess that there have been no Irish entries so far.

Something to think about if you’re due to go on a holiday of your own in the coming weeks and months; just try your level be not to get hurt while you’re at it.

To have a look at the sort of standard you'll have to reach to merit inclusion, check out the site for yourself here.