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Working the foamy streaks created by swirling waves

Working the foamy streaks created by swirling waves

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Working the foamy streaks created by swirling waves

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- All right, I'm working really fast. On the walk back, I'm coming across all these rocks that, as I came, the water wasn't quite coming up to them. Now it is, and there's just fantastic foam on the water, and getting about a half second, sometimes six-tenths of a second, eight-tenths. It's giving me these wonderful streaks, and I've got sea stacks in both directions, so what I'm doing is I'm lining up the rock, shooting the sea stacks in the back this way, and then coming around and shooting the sea stacks there, giving myself different backgrounds. I'm in continuous low burst mode so that I'm taking multiple shots, holding the shutter as the wave comes. You hold it down and continue to shoot throughout that experience. I had a pretty nice wave come up and get me about waist high, but I kept shooting through it. I think that's going to be cool because you're going to actually see the waves over the rocks splashing towards me. So I've just been moving in and out of these rocks. Any…

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