Surfing Snapper Rocks Superbank, Gold Coast, with a Surprise Too!

Hi all

Main Link: My photo gallery on surfing the Snapper Rocks Superbank, Gold Coast.

I was lucky enough to spend an hour on Friday photographing surfing at Snapper Rocks, Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Australia. I had heard that the swell was up due to a low pressure system in the Coral Sea. More on the ‘surprise’ later…. Here are some pics:

Young surfer / senior ‘grom’ being photographed

The surprise? I had heard that Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson and others had been there the day before. When editing the pics, who comes up on my screen? None other than ten times World Surfing Champion Kelly Slater! Yep, I had taken snaps of him and not realised he was there:

Take a closer look at that pic – Kelly Slater is wearing a GoPro Hero HD waterproof video camera on his right hand/wrist (10×8 crop to emphasise the camera):

Steep throw tail action

Slower shutter speed ‘speed blur’

Here’s the photo gallery.

GOOD NEWS: There is a 25% discount off the price of prints and personal use downloads (not shipping) for this gallery until 19 May 2011. Use the coupon code

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in the Smugmug checkout.

Thanks for looking!

Des
PS: Blast from the past – To celebrate unexpectedly snapping Kelly Slater, I’ve added 39 pics to this Snapper Rocks gallery I shot in 2007. Thanks for having a look :). Des.

PPS: Monday (Labour Day) gallery here.