John Vander Ploeg

Diffraction

January 5th, 2021

NIKON Z 7

300mm · f/8.0 · 1/1250s · ISO 720

My favorite wave from our trip to the coast!

Nature

14 Comments

Keith Patrak January 7, 2021 - 4:43 am

Wow! That is an amazing shot, such a scary wave too!

Patrick Snitjer January 7, 2021 - 9:14 am

The water looks kinda like the Dutch masters used to paint it in their seascapes!

John Vander Ploeg January 7, 2021 - 11:58 am

Patrick Snitjer

Thanks man, I’m actually of Dutch ancestry myself! I’m going to have to get in touch with my roots and look at some of the Dutch masters work, any recommendations?

Chris Jablonski January 8, 2021 - 2:33 am

John Vander Ploeg

Willem van de Velde the Younger is the Jimi Hendrix (another Dutch name!), Coltrane, Cartier-Bresson, or Ansel Adams of these, if you get my drift.

Check out "‘De Windstoot" for instance.

John Vander Ploeg January 8, 2021 - 12:35 pm

Chris Jablonski

thanks for the info!

Patrick Snitjer January 9, 2021 - 9:03 am

John Vander Ploeg [Edited]

I'm Dutch myself too :) But I don't know many old masters, I just like to watch paintings in musea, and there are many of those here with large collections of many known, but also unknown painters.

iris-imaging January 7, 2021 - 5:00 pm

First-class shot thanks for sharing it here.

masahiroikeda January 7, 2021 - 7:18 pm

Wow, nice shot.

Chris Jablonski January 8, 2021 - 2:22 am

Fantastic! Great image, John, powerful and just plain beautiful. Love those greens. Well-deserved POTD.

BTW, it's not literally diffraction, is it? Looks like a wave reflected back off a steep beach break, and colliding with an incoming one. That causes these steep vertical explosions. No criticism intended - just curious.