Wave – One Word Sunday Challenge

Paul

Jun 5

While browsing through blog rolls a wave washed over me. Debbie Smythe's One Word Sunday and the subject, "Wave."

I have hundreds of photos of waves so the most difficult part of the challenge was to cull the archives to find a handful of photos for this topic.

I've always lived within a short drive of the ocean and for a time I took the ocean and the waves for granted. That changed with the pandemic. During the winter months, a wide open lonely beach was one of the safest places to be. I visited the beaches of San Mateo County, California almost weekly.

It was a good opportunity to experiment with slow shutter speeds and a tripod.

It's during the winter months when the wave action in California is at its peak.

Rockaway Beach, California

Waves pound the rocks at Grey Whale Cove Beach.

Shorebirds are oblivious to the violence behind them.

Grey Whale Cove

Just yesterday I took a drive to San Francisco's Fort Point, located beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. There's a surf break here that curls sharply from underneath the bridge towards the rocky shoreline. I stopped for a bit to watch surfers ride the frigid waters beneath a world famous landmark.