Did You Have Fun? 😊

 

After seeing countless photos of epic barrels in surf magazines, I couldn’t help it anymore. I had to try getting one myself. 

This was one of the first barrels I’ve managed to get a photo of. At the time, all I had was a Panasonic TS3, a waterproof compact camera. I remember this day as a rare offshore wind day at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica, California. There was a weird sand bar close to shore and there was glassy barrels in waist high water. I immediately suited up and jumped in with my camera. It was the most fun I’ve ever had. It was so much fun trying to position myself just in the right spot, stick the camera inside the wave, and time it perfectly with a limited 1/3s burst mode. It was so much fun that my surfboard was left dry in the car!

I remember how stoked I was trying to capture this photo. Looking back, I can’t believe I even saved it! This photo is trash! 😂 If I saw this on the back of my camera now, I would delete this photo immediately.  

During my first quarter in college, I printed this photo multiple times and presented them in my photography class. People loved it! 😳

“Wow this is such an amazing photo”

Me: “Really? It’s kind of blurry” 🤣

This photo misses all the technical checklist items: it’s not sharp at all, there’s motion blur, not to mention the giant water spot smudging the image. 🤦🏻‍♂️ None of that mattered to me at the time, because I had no idea what I was doing. I was simply enjoying myself and having fun. 

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Did you have fun? 

Oh yeah, that was so much fun! 😊

Then that’s all that matters.

 

October 13, 2017 | Photography & Art