I'm a bit behind in both posting and commenting at the moment so I'll quickly whack this one up before hitting the sack, and catch up with everything else in due course.

Yesterday we had some howling winds and waves to match. Naturally, I didn't go out to shoot yesterday, sigh. Naturally, today both wind and waves had abated.

Nonetheless there were still some impressive enough breaks around. In this case a surfer stands on the edge of the Austinmer rock pool while the ocean blasts a warning in front of his face to stay out.

He ignored it, and had some pretty good rides when he did.

The ocean is of course currently plotting its revenge, as it always does.

Obviously I'm violating the rule of thirds pretty severely here, but I think that this is one of those cases where dead centre is warranted. (Particularly as it allowed me to line up both the surfer and the point where the waves were breaking.)