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Bell's Beach, Australia, has just experienced the biggest surf for many months. Taken at 7am just on sunrise. Image is as shot with levels adjustment and slight colour correction to 'cool' it down a bit.

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mohammad mahdi shaghayegh 11 months ago

nice shot

Bernie Zajac 2 years ago

Thought this looked familiar :) Won Photo-of-the-Month back in May 2009 on my "other" home @ POTD.com.au, how could I forget? :) Fantastic capture Heather, one to be printed BIG, framed, and put on a wall for ALL to see...

Nice to see it here @ 1x too!

Drew Hopper 2 years ago

Great capture! Any use of filters for this shot? :)

Kevin Stokes 2 years ago

Great surf capture.

Mel Brackstone 2 years ago

This would have to be my all time fav of yours, the power of the wind and waves is so evident here!

Heather Hartkamp Thanks Mel. It's my all time fav too. Mainly because it is a capture of random chance - won't happen again. Also because it is the first image I've managed to get on 1x - not easy - total 2 so far. But I keep plugging away! Nothing like a challenge!

Mel Brackstone Indeed, the challenge is what keeps me going :)

Ian Damerell 2 years ago

Well done on your capture Heather. For me the composition and lighting are brilliant. I like the surfer too. He gives a good sense of scale and also portrays our insignificance in the face of nature. Lovely stuff.

Buffo 2 years ago

Top !

Ali Shokri 2 years ago

Wonderful

Codrin Lupei 2 years ago

Somehow, I've missed this beauty :( a really wonderful moment captured here, golden! Love it!

Oyvind Hansen 2 years ago

Wow, this is amazing, just the right Australia feeling, calm but yet wild. Wonderful :)
I'm counting the days till me and my familiy is traveling to Australia for vacation... just some 360 days left :(

Heather Hartkamp I do hope you manage to get to Australia Oyvind. I can show you just where this shot was taken if you get down my way!

Eric Dufour 2 years ago

Hi Heather
Beautiful shot, great timing and very nice lighting!
Congrats!

Heather Hartkamp Thank you Eric and all the people below who have commented on my photo. I'm a bit overawed by the sheer talent on this site and have not really had the confidence to participate very much until now.
This is not a 'perfect' shot. I've had some very constructive (and welcome) feedback - 'too much foreground', 'the surfer is distracting', 'pity the wave on the left is cut off'. I agree with all of these. I noted these imperfections when I first downloaded the file and they would be easy to 'fix' in an editing program. But I decided to leave the shot as it was taken. To me it is one of those captures that will, most likely, never happen again for me. I can easily return to Bell's Beach - just a 20 minute car trip from my home - but to get the same set of conditions as there was on that morning would be virtually impossible. That's why I like it - a unique moment that I was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time for. It is one of many shots that I took that morning standing on a rock metres from the pounding sea in a very strong wind - but I chose this one because I loved the light of the early dawn, the power of the waves and the little surfer relegated into insignificance by the huge sea. It's the thrill of the capture that gets me every time!!!

Ursula I Abresch 2 years ago

Excellent water picture!

Gordito73 3 years ago

I am speechless, this is absolutely mind blowing capture of the wave breaking, surfer paddling and the sun crawling out to sprinkle it's light on this beauty. You managed to capture it all in this one amazing shot. Thank you a million times for sharing.

mm767cap 3 years ago

Wow!!!! This is brilliant. I've been to this beach, and it sure is beautiful. Thanks for showing it at its very best.

Chet Dailey 3 years ago

Right place . . . right time . . . and the skill to capture it so beautifully.

Nicole Goggins 3 years ago

wow! that's amazing! that light is incredible!

Paolo Giudici 3 years ago

Wow!

Wulff 3 years ago

Love the light in this :-)
/Wulff

Paul Kimber 3 years ago

Fabulous! Nice to see a shot of waves with serious drama going on that draws my eye back to it again and again.

Anna Hurtig 3 years ago

Awesom light. The best wave/water image Ive seen on this site. Great work!

Claudio Solera 3 years ago

Amazing shot! Ciao,Claudio.

Jody Miller 3 years ago

Lovely, perfect light!

Ricky Siegers 3 years ago

like it very much...well captured

Giulio Cedrone 3 years ago

Beautiful!!!
Bravo

Angus Macpherson 3 years ago

Just Glorious!

Allan Wallberg 3 years ago

Great capture in beautiful light.

Piet Flour 3 years ago

Welcome in the 1X club Heather. superb shot!
Piet

emresinanoglu 3 years ago

very nice capture

ibranoglu 3 years ago

very beautiful, congratulations

sofianwangsa 3 years ago

great capture..very nice

Magdalena Wasiczek 3 years ago

wow!!!

Robert 3 years ago

WOW! Incredible mood! Well done!

Robert

KPK 3 years ago

Absolutely amazing!

Carolien van den Brink 3 years ago

In one word...FANTASTIC Heather!!

MaxHamish 3 years ago

Wow, I'll have to have a drive down there soon to check it out, hopefully see some great waves.....this is the same beach as seen in the film 'Point Break' if my memory serves me well......Wonderful image, thanks for sharing.....Darren