Tis Christmas and I woke up to my 4:00 am alarm. Why??? I got picked up at 5:00 am.
Stan Y. and Richard had rented huge lens to shoot the North Shore waves. As luck would have it Stan shoots with a Nikon and Richard shoots with a Canon hence two large lens. My camera is the smaller one; they were nice and rented a 2x converter for my 70 - 200. Therefore all of us had 400 mm lens. Here you see John and Stan. I cropped out Richard since he was sitting and I only got his knees.
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These shots were at Waimea Bay.
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5 comments:
WOW!! You really captured the pounding surf well.
Pounding is a good description. It certainly was amazing to see!
wow. those were some big waves.. Nice shots! So did you take the stan sheriff and the airport w/ your 70-200mm? that's some awesome zoom from Tantalus....you sure woke up early for this long day of shooting..
SW, thank goodness I never took off the 2x converter until the end. That converter really is awesome.
nice shots! must have been fun; those lenses look like bazookas!!! just massive!
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