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When I found out there was a huge swell battering Sydney, I put the family in the car and headed for the Northern Beaches.

CC is welcome and appreciated...

Cheers

Mike

#1. At Avalon a surfer carving it up...


#2. Whale beach rock pool


#3. A huge wave from one end of the beach to the other

The first two are great - although they appear a bit small on my monitor.

#2 is a great capture of the water explosion, I think the shutter speed is just perfect.

I think #3 suffers from a lack of perspective. I'm sure the wave looked long and large in the flesh, but without anything to compare it to in the photo I think it loses its impact...

hi

the middle shot is great, what a wave!!! maybe with a nice sunset at the back could have even better..

thanks for sharing

christian

Those are impressive waves there, great shots

Greats shots,, I just finished watching these waves on the news.

Suzanne

Great shots Mike. After church this morning I went down (several times) to a few nearby beaches to get some shots, but it's just like a washing machine. Hopefully by tomorrow the swell will build up here on the nrth coast and maybe clean up enough to surf.

Great powerful subjects. I love the impact in #2

Cheers for commenting.

Mitchell, for the first one I was pretty far out (perched on a cliff about 2m off the ground next to the Avalon pool) so I went for the pano crop look. I cropped out the previous wave in the set...

As for the last one that was @ Whale Beach with no surfer in sight. It would have been great if there was someone out there...

christian...I like it but I guess we will have to wait a long time for a sunset over Whale Beach...I must have had my head stuck in sand because the first time I heard about the huge swell was this morning. If I knew last night I would have gone out really early...ahhhh well...next 30 years...

ozimax, lot of the beach breaks in Sydney looked like that as well. I should have checked out some reef brakes....dog