HB Cliffs Surf Photos
Welcome to my
personal HB Cliff's Surfing Gallery
My passion is the ocean and the surfing lifestyle. In this surf town, the surfing Ohana is ubiquitous.
When I am out shooting subjects with my camera, I try to frame a single moment in time. This frame, if I capture the moment properly, will be preserved in time. When I press the trigger, the surfer and I are adjoined in a moment in time.
Once captured either of us can look at the
photograph and in an instant be transported back in time to that
place, moment and feel the experience and feeling of that moment.
The beauty of it is we can both look at it repeatedly and relive
the moment as many times as we wish.
Can you feel the power in this or am I just a simpleton who is lost in two art forms. Without a doubt, surfing and photography have been adhered to me for many years. Surfing for me is an art form when watching the surfer surfing a wave. The surfer, surfing atop of the surfboard, perched atop of the wave hurling toward the beach is an art form.
Think about that for a moment. The surfer is balancing, standing on top of a narrow floating device riding a moving, oblique, volume of water, and negotiating the crowd of other surfers trying to catch the same wave, maneuvering around the assorted marine sea life and ultimately trying to anticipate where on the wave the next maneuver will take place.
Even the novice surfer, self-absorbed in just trying to stand-up occasionally has that "moment in time!" The narrow moment when they transcend inexperience and engross themselves in the art of surfing.
"Reading an ocean wave" is in itself is an art form which takes years of practice and experience to master.
The experienced surfer is the one to watch!
They have an unique understanding of and relationship with the
ocean. They know what
the ocean is going to allow them do and how they will make it to
that special place on the wave to make the move they want and how
far the wave will allow them to ride for.
The decisions the surfer makes are derived from sensory
input. A surfer senses
the wave and feels the ocean.
Input observed, heard, felt or even sensed is processed in a
nanosecond and reacted to by the surfer based solely on experience
or lack there of. A ride
on a wave lasts a measly five to fifteen seconds and then it is over
and they paddle out for some more.
This is repeated over and over until they have had their fill
or have been handed their pride on a bad wipe-out.
In any event, after the wave is over that wave is etched
forever in the mind of the surfer.
We need your help!
Please
browse and check the photos of local HB
surfers which we have not been able to identify.
If you are looking for your photos, check out the month(s) in which you were surfing and if you were surfing, send me an email to ask me to post them.
Shooting as many frames as I do, it is easy to get overwhelmed. Also, not all of the photographs turn out well. I can remedy some of the photos by using software to clean them up.
Note to Surfers: Photo's are posted in groups only after they have been edited. It can take anywhere from Three to Five weeks from the date I shoot the session to when I post the photo gallery.
Do you know any of these Surfers?
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Holy Sheet! Take December 5th for instance "Off the Hook!"
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Paying attention to your surroundings...
Locally, everyone has an effect on the environment and it matters that the imprint we leave has the smallest impact possible while still enjoying your surroundings. Dog Beach is such a place. If we take care of it politely educate visitors about our efforts for everyone to leave the smallest imprint possible, this beach could be here for all of us and our four legged friends in the future.
When you walk back up the cliffs have each of you in your group look for a piece of trash to pick-up to place into the trash can or in a recycle bin. This solitary, unselfish act alone would make a huge impact on the beauty of Dog Beach. This would really reduce the amount of trash on the beach, the path and up on the bluff.
Globally, all of us must understand the real meaning of living in each of our own habitat and how fragile the environment could actually be. There is nothing wrong with practicing a conservative environmentally conscious lifestyle.
I am not talking about drinking your pee and eating your poo:o. I am just saying you are buying something at the store or tossing something away into the trash, take a look at a second time and wonder...
Nice Yule log!
If your dog goes and you forgot to grab some spare Doggie Defecation Bags (DDB)'s, you can ask nearly anyone on the beach if they have a spare and more often than not they can obliged you.
The hot tip is to grab some spares. I take three because they are small. If I get to my car after my dog run and I have spares I try to find a person heading down to the beach to pass them to.
Martin and the Dog Beach.org Organization have taken great strides to help dog owners curb their dogs. In fact Martin has purchased over one million doggie bags and they are available in the Blue dispensers located all over the place.
Over the years, the incidence of uncurbed dogs is not the typical scene at Dog Beach as it once was.
In the past few years I have seen a measurable improvement of people picking up after their dog and even pointing out to wayward owners that the big brown steamer in the sand belongs to Fido!
Titus Naluamoa
Contributor