Friday Night Photos More Body's In Motion Edition
Happy Friday everyone. Well, we made it through another week of endless wars, rising inflation, a collapsing economy, and a country on the brink of financial disaster. Not to mention an environment that's slowly burning up the planet. As bad as it is, it's not all doom and gloom 24/7. Tell us what you did this week to put a smile on your face and forget about the doom and gloom. My go to is to get out with the camera and take photos, What's yours?
Other than photography, I love SciFi, supernatural, quirky crime and dark humor (books, tv, movies) and sports as diversions from the doom and gloom. Right know I'm on the 8th book of a nine book scifi series (The Expanse series) written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, collectively published under the pen name James S. A. Corey. Governments from around the solar system must come together to stop an ancient alien artifact from destroying the human race.
I wasn't sure what photos I was going to post tonight but since these guys have been hanging around for the last month dripping salt water all over my desk I figured it was time for them to make an appearance.
These were shot on three different days at three different beaches. #1 & 5 were taken at Moonlight beach in Encinitas, #2,3,6,7 were taken at the Ocean Beach jetty and #4 & 8 were taken south of La Jolla Cove.
Now that the surfers have come and gone I can get all that salt water cleaned up.
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Junior Brown!
Great pick. Otc and I saw him a couple of years ago at Gruene Hall, New Braunfels Texas, near Austin.
It was a great show by a great artist and an icon here in Texas. His wife plays rhythm guitar in the band.
Here's a video I took back then:
It's not the best video in the world because I had to stand up on a bench a long way from the stage to even see him because of standing room only and I was using my phone to record. Gruene Hall is an iconic venue, the saying among performers is; "You haven't made it until you play Gruene Hall", which has served as a dance hall since 1878, it's the oldest dance hall in Texas.
We got to meet him after the show, he's a cool dude, and that guitar of his is a custom made instrument that's both a standard electric guitar and what's essentially a lap style steel guitar fused together so he can play it in an upright position.
The dude can play.
Hi, JtC
Thanks for the Junior Brown clip. What a great opportunity to meet him after the show. That is quite the rig he has and plays real well.
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Have trouble understanding the rush
of surf against the rocks. More than a few injuries must have been the consequence?
Anyway, you captured their overtures quite well. Call me a wus,
but the adrenalin required to pull-off those feats is beyond my ken.
Prefer to maintain an injury-free body at this point.
Do you surf? Thanks for posting!
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Hi, Q
They're not surfing into the rocks, they're surfing parallel to the rocks and were in no danger. I played around with skim boards and boogie boards when I was younger, but I never tried surfing.
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The backwash off of the rocks helps to keep one off of them.
be well and have a good one
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Hi el
Does it always work?
Hi Social
Thanks for the ride. The action and moment caught in the 5th image is especially captivating.
I haven’t any photos to add, as my computer has been acting psychotically the past couple of days. I hope it’s not in its last throes. I’m useless on my phone.
At least you only
have a psychotic computer. We have a whole psychotic government. The really sad part is we all know it's psychotic but we can't get anybody to fix it.
Thanks for the Surfaris tune.
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Tried surfing in hs
It was too much a project for me to get someone to drive me to the beach with the board. Didn't have a car. Alternatively, I always took a bus to Jones Beach to just swim. I compromised and became a body surfer which I became quite good at. Plus little risk of hard collision or pearling. Later I used to swim a km to a mile along the beach depending on my condition for exercise. Didn't get to swim this evening more thunder and rain.
Son in law got these heic files to convert. He uploaded something called imageglass. These pics not great but the rainbows were quite striking at the time. They occur very much in the same place when they appear- in east while the sun is getting ready to set.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
Hi, soryang
I did a little body surfing, skim boarding and boogie boarding when I was younger. Never tried surfing. Nice shots of the rainbow.
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Pic 1 has a "ghost double"
Just the faintest hint of a second, outer rainbow with the colors reversed. Double rainbows are rarer, and harder to photograph, than single ones.
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Yes, TOM
It was extraordinary to see. I'm glad Ms. So caught it. I couldn't get it on my android phone.
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Thank you soryang
There are probably few better skies to see rainbows in then in S. Florida. They are so level and wide open lands.
A very late thank you, SP. Great pics and music.
Oh yes, OB!
be well and have a good one
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Thank you, EL
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Very good pics, you two photogs.
I've always been a huge water bug, but never got into surfboards. I could swim like a fish especially under water. Also body surfed. In fact, I had a copy of the original teaser promo poster for the classic documentary The Endless Summer. It was a good piece of poster art, and I wish i still had it. Oh well....life. Actually, I loved looking at surfing pics cos I love looking at the ocean waves. The nuts who got into extreme surfing the huge (30-50-plus feet high) waves were asking for it. It's that remarkable that the death toll from that type of surfing is so low. Here in my neck of ECFL, we have been lucky weather-wise. No storms, no massive rain events, no brushfires. I'm not complaining!
You can't end a surfing thread without this classic. Thanks, jb. Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Hi, obf
Like you, I never got into surfing but did try my hand at body surfing, skim boarding, and boogie boarding. Hope your good weather continues. We had a week of mostly sunny skies and temps in the mid 80s.
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More mood music
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When it comes to surfing and music
you can't go wrong with the Beach Boys. Thanks for the BB mood music, otc.
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I can't even swim
more than a few feet. Maybe 10 to 15, then I'd be dead. Long childhood illness has left me with lifelong lack of strength, plus ear problems, if water gets in them. One drop, and I will fall flat on my face the next day.
I am a wader, as long as JtC is close by and can grab me, but my admiration for the sea, the waves, the dolphins...I can sit on a beach all day long, stare it from a balcony for a week.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981