Wipe Out!!!! by beachzz
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Sometimes you get a shot that just defies all explanation. I was on the pier in Huntington Beach one early morning and there were these surfers in the water. This guy just happened to wipe out at the moment I thought I was just getting another surf shot. How kind of him!!
Comments (16)
SunriseGirl
WOW!!! That is amazing.
blinkings
I think you must have distracted him. ;) 5/5
sharky_
I could imagine if he was under the way....lucky him. Nice capture... Aloha
durleybeachbum
Brilliant catch!
MrsRatbag
Oof! Better him than me, I'm not a very good swimmer. I'll stay on the shore and wet my feet in the wavelets! Great action capture!!!
Meisiekind
You lucky fish - this is EPIC!!! I love it Marilyn!
goodoleboy
Wow, what an awesome capture of this most bizarre scene, Maz! You caught that dude, right in the center, in the throes of all that wave and foam action, reaching up to snatch what I believe is his surfing equipment. I thought it was a fish at first. Look like clouds at the upper right.
jocko500
wow you got the action
wysiwig
Spectacular capture! Rare to get something like this unless you are filming. Love the waves.
auntietk
This is spectacular! What a perfect shot!
whaleman
Great action shot!
blondeblurr
This looks almost surreal, if we didn't know any better ... my son used to surf, but I never got a capture likes this one, kudos to you! BB
kgb224
Perfect timing. Superb capture. God bless.
iborg64
Great capture at the perfect moment
danapommet
A spectacular action shot and fantastic wave action too!
anahata.c
ok, first of all the waves behind him--esp on the right---are almost sculpted; wonderful collision of two big wave-forces. Second, the man looks almost like he posed for you. (No chance of that, I realize!) He almost seems in bas relief to the shot. Have no clue how you got that in a split second. Third, while I know nothing of surfing, I really appreciate the moment you got---the perfect moment. I assume regular surf photographers would be using their burst modes like crazy to get a shot like this, but you got it by just shooting. As far as getting this when you were after something else, I have a conviction that intuitive photographers somehow get to the right place at the right time---not always, but enough to get shots like this. (Like that 'Plink' shot.) So maybe your inner eye was watching while your outer eye was looking for something else. (I tend to believe that, with artists as intuitive as you: Your inner eye makes choices, in other words.) In any case, it's a hell of an action shot! And real separation of the person from all around him. Fine work.