Surfing

California (Nov 5, 2006)

Another photo of Southern California surfers. These two girls were sharing a single board, learning to surf under the vigilant supervision of their father on the beach. They actually spent most of their time in the water, but seemed to have a lot of fun anyway. They stayed alway close to the place where I was standing, where the waves were breaking on the surf, which worked well since I didn’t take my tele lens with me (silly me, but I wasn’t programming to take pictures of surfers). They were almost in the direction of the sun, which was reflecting quite nicely on their wet suits, making for an almost ideal backlight. The original photo is of course in color, but the contrast was so high that in’t much different from this B&W.