Energy

Thanks for your comments.

Hello Chuck, I hope there isn't a surfer under that. It's a fabulous shot.

 

Regards. Pete

Composition is a difficult thing to evaluate. I can't know what compositive (is that a word?) issues you were dealing with. I love the power of the breaking wave, but I wish I could see the wave in its context, i.e. the rocks and beach that the wave is breaking on.

Great shot. In my youth I loved shooting waves. This is a great one. Here in Alaska there are no road to our outer costline to shoot waves.

Reminds me of Hawaii Five-O. Great catch!

Stunning shot! I love the timing and the sharpness in the photo. Very well done.

SUPER!!!!!!!!!

Just Amazeing. wade

Great shot Chuck. Looks like we are having about the same enormous waves.

Very strong impression. I agree with others.

To me for some odd reason this looks like a modelled miniature wave, perhaps constructed from resin :) Probably due to the lighting, was this shot at night, maybe lit by street lights or headlights or something?? Great shot!

What a great capture. Pardon my posting an alternative here but I had to see what it would look like in B&W.

Jay,

 

This image was taken from a path along the side of Kamehameha Highway on the north side of Waimea Bay on the north shore of Oahu. When a big winter swell rolls in from the North Pacific we get these beautiful hollow shorebreak waves on the inside of the bay. The morning sun shines onto the face of the waves and leaves the cliffs in the background in shadow. It's a great set up for photos. In fact it is probably one of the most photographed waves in the world and is used for all kinds of advertising.

 

I should probably be getting 1's for originality as I am standing tripod to tripod with about thirty photographers on days like this. Many of them are professional surf photographers with their Canon 1DS's and 600mm f/4's. I shot this back in 2004 with a Nikon D100, 300mm f/4 with a 1.4 teleconverter. Still, I like the wild look of this shot.

Tom,

 

Not a bad idea. I will have to give that conversion a shot when I get back to my home computer. Thanks.

Chuck: Love the energy here. Stunning image (for me at least, as I never seen this place)

You sure caught the POWER! awesome shot!

I am enraptured by this image, to me it sums up all the beauty and potential fury of the ocean.

ive personally been out there in some very very bad ocean and coastal inlet storms but only came close once to getting anything close to good on film.

cheers,

evan

Excellent photo you catch the moment and the motion of the waves !

I like the feeling coming out of this shot. Feels really powerful. The B&W conversion is really something you should look at for this photo. I like it a lot in B&W.

Excellent shot - from one who enjoys taking photos of water. The lighting, the colour, the timing - all well done.

 

Personally, I like the colour image...

 

Well done.

Awesome ! Great shot!

An amazing sight to see. The roar that this wave made must have been deafening...

it`s all in there - creation`s force