That does look photoshopped without the foreground in view. I can definitely see it being authentic in this particular case.
I briefly took up surfing when I was stationed in Hawaii. I made the naive mistake of starting out at North Shore because why not. Long story short is I would of drowned if not for an observant 20 year-old surfer girl who rescued me, dragged my lifeless body to the beach and performed CPR on me...then gave me a lecture on the facts of life in big wave surfing. That night I bought her dinner. I never went surfing again. Well...I did but only at Waikiki...baby waves. I never stepped into the North Shore again except on the beach to take photo's of her on the monster surf. A few years later I got married. My wife heard about my near death story from a social butterfly girlfriend. She later found my stash of photos (surfer girl) and burned them, the negatives too! Oh well.
Here's a cool pic, imo, by Peter Lik:
Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona
I briefly took up surfing when I was stationed in Hawaii. I made the naive mistake of starting out at North Shore because why not. Long story short is I would of drowned if not for an observant 20 year-old surfer girl who rescued me, dragged my lifeless body to the beach and performed CPR on me...then gave me a lecture on the facts of life in big wave surfing. That night I bought her dinner. I never went surfing again. Well...I did but only at Waikiki...baby waves. I never stepped into the North Shore again except on the beach to take photo's of her on the monster surf. A few years later I got married. My wife heard about my near death story from a social butterfly girlfriend. She later found my stash of photos (surfer girl) and burned them, the negatives too! Oh well.
Here's a cool pic, imo, by Peter Lik:
Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona
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