Friday Night Photos Surfs Up Edition
Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.
Just got back from a week on the road and haven't had time to go through all the photos I took (500+), so until next Friday, lets go surfing.
These are from last month when I went to the Wavecrest woodie meet in Encinitas. After photographing the cars I changed the wide lens for a long lens and spent a little time photographing the surfers. There were a lot of surfers in the water that morning but not much surf.
Last but not least, thanks to Captain Q for hosting in my absence last Friday. Nice shots of the northern lights.
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Super shots!
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The first one with the hand reflection and the upside down surfer.
Where did you go and what did you shoot?
I got a brain tick last night and decided that next year I’m heading to California and my old haunts. Bodega Bay, hopefully camping at Wrights beach and up to Patrick’s Point and the redwoods. Last time I was there it had a heatwave and so no pictures of the trees in the fog. I went up the coast to escape the heat in the Central Valley and boy was I bummed.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Hi, snoopy
I took these at Moonlight beach in Encinitas, Ca. It's about a 40 min. drive northwest from where I live. The camera was a Nikon Z9 with a Nikon Nikkor 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 lens.
I hope you're able satisfy your brain tick and come out to the coast next year. I'm not sure yet, but it's possible I will passing through that way this time next year on a trip to Oregon.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Wave Ho!
Fun stuff SP.
Never had the balance to
last much on the long board.
Tried a few times in OB CA
but ended up with face plants and lots of
saltwater up the nose. Glad you are back.
Cheers
Hi, Q
Thanks for filling in while I was away. Those were some great shots of the Aurora Borealis. Wish I could have been there to see that. I've body surfed and boogie boarded, but I've never tried surfing. Kudos to you for trying.
Thanks for the link. I'd love to have the chance photograph the Earth from the ISS. That's a bucket list item.
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Heh, grew up in OB. :-) n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
there in early 70's
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someone had just killed a couple cops
so there was a lot of heat on the street
but the burgers were cheap (White Castle?)
5 for a buck
Ah, I was out of there by mid sixties n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hi pixelators
Hi all, Hi SP,
welcome back to the mad mad world. Great surf shots. I never shot any surfing, That type of action is tricky and hard to do. I miss the ocean more than anything here in landlocked central Texas.
Dick Dale Miserlou - which could maybe be called the first surf song, before surf music... and an early example of a lefty playing a right handed Stratocaster 'upside-down and backwards'a la Hendrix.
Here are a couple pixels... more moths. my maxim is shoot first, ask ID questions later. I only know the easy fancy moths. Though love all their endless variation.
Many call these accrea moth, accrea being the specific epitaph of binomial. They are one of the Tiger Moth group, which means caterpillars are wooly bears..
Candy-striped Lichen Moth - over a dozen species where I am, hard to tell. The cats eat lichen.
One of the 'bird-dropping' types
Space Moth (not really, I have no clue what it is)
Hope all are well!
happy trails!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi, dystopian
I've always lived less than an hour from the coast. I can't imagine living somewhere where the ocean was any farther away than that.
Nice selection of moths. It may not be it's real name but Space Moth works as well as any.
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Good Morning SP, thanks for the column. Great pics.
Encinitas used to be a cool little town, probably still is.
Like you, I've pretty much always lived close to the ocean, can't seem to leave.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hi, EL
I don't get to Encinitas very often but the times I have been there it's been a cool little town.
I grew up in the Santa Clara valley. A quick hop onto hwy 17 and we were in Santa Cruz in 45 mins. Loved going to the boardwalk there.
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Excellent images as usual and it makes me wonder....
Since taking action images are not easy it makes me wonder how many how many shots that you would take before you could gather ones that you consider keepers?
Hi, humphrey
The number of keepers varies. Some days are good and some days not so good. I shot 128 frames of the surfers the morning I took these. The eight posted here were the best of the bunch which is about average for that many frames.
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