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Ashwini Kumar Bhat
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I was trying for an image where I am very close to the barnacles and wanted the wave to be hitting the rock and get frozen in air (of course in the frame! ;) ).
Since I was playing with the sea water which is sticky and contains minute sand in it, getting the equipment wet was a costly affair (and which I never wanted to do as well)! So I zeroed in on one position where I felt safer and waited for a slightly bigger wave to come and hit the rock. After deciding on the composition and holding the camera in the desired angle I was no longer looking through the view finder rather than concentrated on how fast I need to take away the camera as soon as the wave hits the rock. I needed to be very very quick in order to save my equipment from the nasty spill.
After about five minutes I got a wave which hit the rock really hard. Harder than I had thought. This was the penultimate frame taken while I was pulling my camera back. The barnacle remained as a hint at the bottom with the hint of the sea in the back.

The image gives the feel that my camera is almost gone, but luckily I was quick enough to take away the camera with only few drops on the front filter.


Baada beach, Near Kumta,
Karnataka, India
Dec 2010

Nikon D300, Sigma 28mm 1.8 macro, hand held
Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:18 am
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Commentby Manjunath on Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:57 am

wo, this looks way too close.. nice to know your equipment was saved :)
wish the barnacle was more pronounced.. liked the top left corner where we can see the other wave.. nice experiment :)

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Commentby nirlep on Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:29 pm

Close shave this Ashwin :)
But such close encounters do have lessons hidden underneath. Thanks for trying for all of us.
:)

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