Just Surf - Santa Cruz California Surfing
by Mark E Tisdale
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Just Surf - Santa Cruz California Surfing
Artist
Mark E Tisdale
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
I haven't yet chucked it all to follow the surfing scene, but I have to admit that it has an attractive ring to it. While I have never surfed myself, it's the only sport I've found I enjoy as a spectator. There's just something beautiful and poetic about watching people ride waves!
This picture was from my first time watching the sport, on the beaches of Northern California close to Santa Cruz. I had a very short time to drive up the coast, but I spent literally hours sitting on the rocks at Santa Cruz watching the surfers do their thing. And it felt like minutes! I truly felt like I understood the concept of surfing zen for the first time.
It also caught the eyes of the visual artist in me, and a lot of that time watching the surfers was spent with a camera pressed to my face as I sought to capture the moment. This moment of a surfer breaking over the top of a wave was my singe favorite moment of the morning. The lighting, the colors of the sea, the stance of the surfer.. it all just came together for a scene that I felt was pretty iconic.
Every time I look at this picture, I'm taken back to that moment, the sea breeze, watching the surfers paddle out and ride the waves back in,the calm sweet zen of living in the moment... And I invariably want to head for a beach to watch it all play out again. Some day!
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October 14th, 2013
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