Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Dropping into the pocket of a massive Pipeline break. Professional big wave surfer Bianca Valenti carves left, gets barreled, and scores points at Da Hui Backdoor Shootout 2022.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Aerial sunrise seascape with good size waves at Killcare Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

We're counting down the days to the start of the 2025-26 ski season.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Processed with VSCOcam with kk2 preset

Taken with Samsung Note2

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surfers enjoying the good sized waves at Avoca Beach on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Just after sunset at Croyde Bay.

"You can take a surfer out of the surf, but you can not take surf out of surfer."

-- Bob McTavish (Australian surfboard designer and member of the surfing hall of fame)

Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):

Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)

Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom

ISO – 640

Aperture – f/8

Exposure – 1/1250 second

Focal Length – 145mm

The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11

The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/

This was photographed from the La Jolla cove area using my converted infrared camera. We get bigger surf in the winter, and it was fun to watch yesterday morning.

I used channel swapping to turn the sky blue. I do use a polarizing filter with infrared because I think it accentuates the effect. Here is a link to a tutorial on playing with infrared images. www.lifepixel.com/photo-tutorials/infrared-photoshop-videos

I've been taking infrared images for at least 15 years with a total of 3 different cameras. It's much easier to take infrared images digitally that it was in the film days. If you like this look, I have an album of infrared photographs, creatively named Infrared.

www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157600507865146/

Other San Diego picture can be seen in my San Diego album.

www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157623536348425

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Gold Coast, AUSTRÀLIA 2023

Sunrise seascape with large waves washing ashore at Killcare Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

Sunrise seascape with good size waves at Killcare Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Gold Coast, AUSTRÀLIA 2023

Sunrise seascape with large waves washing ashore at Killcare Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Happened to have my camera and long lens on, when we walked Ruby along Lunan Bay Beach. I don't know who the guys are, but they were spectacular, the waves were awesome and hey, the sun was shining too. I took hundreds of photos, but here are just 5 of my favourites.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Aerial sunrise seascape with good size waves at Killcare Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Aerial sunrise seascape with good size waves at Killcare Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

I love a good snow wave photo. Alta had 17 inches of fresh snow yesterday morning and I did a few laps with fellow action sports photographer, Steven Lloyd. I wasn't on the clock but I did take a few pictures of Steve getting barrelled in the pow. There was another 9 inches last night but I skied the last four days and I have office work to do :-(

I headed down to Bovisand beach hoping for a sunset and surf at high tide.

A clean 2ft wave gave me a few ideas for the "Surfs Up" comp. this month. After a few attempts at capturing the surf on the beach I noticed a curved rock catching the sun. This wave from one of the bigger sets gave me this shot....Phew... Dodgy!

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Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Aerial sunrise seascape with good size waves at Killcare Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

A wave hitting the shore of Brighton in Hove, England. A close up crop and black and white conversion of the wave itself from a recent upload.

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Surf's Up Sunrise with rain clouds at Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Sunrise seascape with large waves washing ashore at Killcare Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

Autumn days at the beach in Umina Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

Gold Coast, AUSTRÀLIA 2023