January 10, 2021 — San Francisco, California
More big surf at Ocean Beach. Weather Service said 20 to 25 feet and they were right.
I shot 1,946 frames with an eight-pound camera/lens in a little less than three hours. Good upper-body exercise. Some of those shots used fast shutter speed and some slow. Some with camera held steady and some with intentional camera motion. Interesting phenomenon: Some ICM shots of heavy insane surf end up looking very calm. That could possibly become the basis of a philosophy if one needed some intellectual exercise.
(Nikon D850, Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR zoom. RAW processing in DxO PhotoLab 4.1; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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The rough and the calm are one: sounds like something from Buddhism.
One photo frame less and you’d have paid homage to my birth year. As it was, you celebrated my wife’s.
It seems strange for a Pacific beach to be called Ocean Beach, as that name could equally well apply to all other Pacific beaches.
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I am working on a theme: calm and chaos. And I’m happy to have celebrated your wife’s birthday. It is interesting that Ocean Beach could really apply to any beach on any ocean. San Francisco, being the head of a peninsula, has beaches on the bay as well. So, in theory, to reduce ambiguity one would say let’s go to Ocean Beach rather than simply saying let’s go to the beach. Just a guess.
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I’d thought about San Francisco Bay as an alternative but there are still a bunch of beaches on the ocean side of the peninsula that would make Ocean Beach ambiguous.
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But not in the city of San Francisco.
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I’ll take calm…. in 1,946 frames of joy! 😉
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Thank you. You’re going to see the rough too and I think you’ll be impressed.
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I’m pretty sure I will be! Can’t wait!
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Can’t believe how many frames you shot!!! And I know that 200-500, its chunky. Wow! 🙂
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A lot of them more ICM sweeps at about 10 shots per sweep. And my arms and shoulders definitely felt it the following day!
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Looks like Steve beat me to the thought, by chance are you really Michael Confucius? Isn’t Digital just wonderful? Oh those days of that stuff called Film…1946 frames! I hope many were from Burst setting. Anyway, keep up the good work
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Thanks, Chris.
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Never could’ve done this with film. A lot of the shots were in 10 or 12 shot ICM sweeps. This is one of those shots. Thank you. Stay tuned. More to come.
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You had a good time out there, didn’t you? 🙂
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Indeed! Thank you.
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Calm in the middle of a storm, yours and the hurricane’s eye. If you were tired from all that shooting imagine all the loading of film to pull that off plus 1946 cock and shoot actions. I imagine not all of the ICM was intentional. 🙂
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Never would’ve happened with film. Never. Actually all the ICM was intentional.
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I understood that but figured the eight pounds had a little to do with it.
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I definitely felt it the next day. No question about that.
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I really enjoyed your ocean pictures !
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Thank you!
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