My favorite place to shoot is from the water. I love the underwater world, shooting images below the waves or even just duck diving on the way out to catch them. It is a transition between the noisy, cluttered surface and the surreal, silent, sublime underworld. It’s a transition from being on the ocean, to being in the ocean – fully immersed. It is this symbol that is used in baptism, transitioning from your old life above the water, then dying as you are submerged. All this only to rise again renewed, resurrected, and reborn. This symbol is a metaphor for so much in life. This is what I feel when I duck dive and swim below the waves. It’s a “little death” to the worries of the world, as the water washes me clean, the old runs away as the water fills my senses. Then I rise again refreshed, renewed, reinvigorated and alive again.
Here in this series of images I have captured the silent side of surfing. There are many disciplines of surfing captured here but all have two commonalities: the ocean and the wave.
I think this is how the ocean watches us surf.
