Waimea Bay High Surf

theprincereturns

Ok, so here are some pictures from Waimea Bay (North Shore Oahu), during a recent high surf. biggest challenge with these pictures was dealing with the salt spray. Constant cleaning, using a polarizer, and waiting for breaks in the clouds and braking waves helped. Anyone have any other tips for conditions like that?

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#4 The Lone Thril seaker in the waves (kite surfing)



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#6 Looking along the shore was the most difficult as you were shooting into more depth of salt spray. I had trouble getting a clearer picture of the waves on these rocks :-(

zoomer

Fun stuff.
I need an ocean fix obviously .
I like 4, puts the wave size into perspective.

theprincereturns

Yeah, actually another problem I had that day was that no one was out in the waves!! I was hoping for a bunch of surfers, but the waves were too rough. So I had large waves, and large waves hitting large rocks, or using my zoom to get people in the forground with waves in the background (compressed some to make them look closer, but i still didnt' feel like I was getting a true size comparison).

zoomer wrote: »

Fun stuff.
I need an ocean fix obviously .
I like 4, puts the wave size into perspective.

torags

You gotta wait for a contest. Did the "Eddie" get off?

theprincereturns

torags wrote: »

You gotta wait for a contest. Did the "Eddie" get off?

No, not that I saw. Have you been to the north shore during one of the events? It is a mad house and can take hours to get in and out (there is only one two lane road). I haven't ventured up there during any of the big events yet for that reason, but I know I need to before I leave ;-)