Parker Seidel is a young photographer living on Oahu. He likes to make images and edit videos. He’s pretty honest, too. The up-and-comer recently released a video of himself getting destroyed at Pipeline while trying to capture photos from the water. Reality YouTube at its finest.
In the video above, you can see Parker start in the channel, getting a few shots as the shutter can be heard going off. But at around the 3:15 mark, you can see he’s drifted deeper into the proper Pipeline impact zone, where he then gets thrashed around like a rolling stone on the reef beneath the water. He eats a wave and is under for nearly 15 seconds with a camera in his hand, getting beaten, he says. “I’m about to crap my pants,” he wrote in a caption. “I’m panicking and almost out of breath.”
You can see the fear in the young man’s eyes as he tries to get back inside. Videos like this surely give one respect for the likes of Zak Noyle and Clark Little and all the other water photographers capturing glorious imagery to stoke our collective fires. Oh, and Parker was able to get some stellar imagery himself. Check out some of his work, below. You might recognize the surfer.
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