What NOT to do at the beach

BridgeCityBridgeCity Registered Users Posts: 338 Major grins
edited February 15, 2005 in Holy Macro
This shot was taken on the Oregon Coast. A couple of my friends decided they wanted to get as close to the rocks as possible! Turns out, they got a bit too close, and I was luckily ready with my camera to capture the moment!

Enjoy

http://bridgecitystudios.smugmug.com/gallery/392863/1/15666914/Large

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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2005
    Cool shot... were they hurt?

    look at option 2 in this thread to answer your posting questions.
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  • BridgeCityBridgeCity Registered Users Posts: 338 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2005
    Test!

    15666914-L.jpg
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  • BridgeCityBridgeCity Registered Users Posts: 338 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2005
    Perfect Thanks!

    Just had to un right-click protect my gallery to do it
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2005
    rolleyes1.gif Great capture! They'll treasure that shot for a long time. What a great pose that guy has. lol3.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2005
    Isn't there some reason you could think of to ask them for a redo?

    Great photo, I love it!

    ginger
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  • Steve CaviglianoSteve Cavigliano Super Moderators Posts: 3,599 moderator
    edited February 14, 2005
    We lose a lot of tourists this way....lol
    But, it does keep the Coast Guard busy lol3.gif

    Great timing and a great pic to show your buddies when they try to act smart with you....lol At least you showed enough sense to be away from the water while looking through the viewfinder. You came out dry and with a super shot. They came out wet and, most likely, with soiled undies :lol


    Good one ^5 Thanks for sharing,
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  • digital faeriedigital faerie Registered Users Posts: 667 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2005
    Steve Cavigliano wrote:
    But, it does keep the Coast Guard busy lol3.gif

    Great timing and a great pic to show your buddies when they try to act smart with you....lol At least you showed enough sense to be away from the water while looking through the viewfinder. You came out dry and with a super shot. They came out wet and, most likely, with soiled undies :lol


    Good one ^5 Thanks for sharing,
    Steve
    3 cheers for capturing the unexpected! what a fun shot. thumb.gif
  • BridgeCityBridgeCity Registered Users Posts: 338 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2005
    Just an update:

    Noone was hurt. The gentleman with his arms flailing tragically lost his cell phone in the encounter, but everyone survived.

    There were many laughs and celebrations after we all had realized the potential seriousness of the day's activites :)

    Thanks for the kind words! We all feel very fortunate that we now have documented proof of a presumably unbelievable story :D
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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited February 14, 2005
    a once-in-a-lifetime kinda shot. kudos for being armed and ready. very nice as are others in the gallery.
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  • GSPePGSPeP Registered Users Posts: 3,939 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2005
    Great shot thumb.gif

    They'll think twice before going there again. :):
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2005
    Why don't you darken the people and the rock enough to put it in Fred Miranda's monthly contest as a silhouette.

    I thought it was a silhouette. It easily could be and there is a monthly contest at his site, this month it is silhouettes.

    Great shot, as they say, shot of a lifetime, unless you can make some more friends and talk them into doing it, too. I would show it all I could, enter it, whatever. Blow it up big. Sell it to the Lesser West Coast Society.rolleyes1.gif

    Smile,
    ginger:D
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2005
    We have a spot
    where the waves crash up like that, and people climb down (in this case) to get closer. They stand there with their arms up in the air as if daring the wave to soak them. I only have one shot with a guy in front of the wave, it really helps show the height of some of these waves!

    Sorry your friend lost his cell phone, but at least he wasn't hurt.

    For local bay area people the spot is at Pebble Beach, below the parking lot where the waves hit the reef. Pebble is between Pescadero and Bean Hollow. This is not the famous Pebble Beach golf course :):

    Good catch, and a dramatic photo. It makes it more special that you know the people in it too!
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  • CosmicCosmic Registered Users Posts: 219 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2005
    Wow! Lucky no one was hurt!

    R.I.P cell phone though Laughing.gif. Great capture! I'll bet those guys will be telling that war story forever now... especially with proof of how big the wave really was! :P
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