Oahu, Hawaii, 21 February 2015

Day three of a surfing photography workshop with Michael Clark and Brian Bielmann.

Anyone for a quick sprint through the surf?

These are the second half of the day’s images, from about 1:45pm. There is no good dawn light on the North coast of Oahu because the beaches are then in the shadow of the mountains.  We started about 10:30am and continued through to about 6:30pm.  I had a break for lunch from about 2pm to 3pm.

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When the lip of the wave comes down in the centre like this, you can surf either way.

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The tunnel is forming…

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This is Robin cleaning her tripod with sand and seawater to remove the smell after a dog shat on it.  Normally you keep tripods well away from seawater (and sand) but she did rinse it in fresh water later.

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Sometimes I just photographed the waves without the surfers…

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It is now 4:30pm, the light is getting lower and the reflections of the sun are coming across the water.

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Twenty minutes later, looking in the opposite direction to the far distance, this is a very different view.

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And back to the surfers…

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The contest was still going on though there were also surfers further over who were not in the contest.

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That is another wave behind him, not clouds.

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And the final image with a very translucent wave in the late afternoon light.

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