Surf's Up: Clark Little's incredible wave photography

#6 you're looking through the clear water

Can someone explain number 6 to me? I'm having a hard time understanding that one.

Getting hit by a breaking is a little like getting hit by a slow-moving car. It hurts just to look at these because I know what came next.

I would not want to be his health insurance company.

Really spectacular work. Proof that getting close pays no matter what you're shooting.

When a youth I went to Hawaii and me and a friend decide to body surf shore waves on Maui. When the big waves hit near the shore is was amazing, Standing in waist deep water, then bare sand, then crushed and spit up on the beach. Usually followed by the next wave whacking you in the head. Cudos for taking pictures in that type of surf.

Wow, incredible pics. Makes me hurt just looking at them, knowing how hard shore breaks slam you! Brings back good and bad memories :)

awesomely done!!!

fabulous set

All the photos are excellent, with new element in every photo. The efforts to take these photos is great..

Quite stunning, particularly given this subject matter being well traveled.

Yet, I am frustrated with some comments alluding to this work as so much worthy of exposure than yesterday's offering. Despite respect for individual preference, imagine an appreciation, on some level, for both features. And the acknowledgement that neither hurts anyone, quite the opposite as it broadens exposure. Certainly any article on the site is incapable of wasting space, given the structure here. Such attitudes are a bit childish.

Finally I really great gallery of photos instead of the bland stuff we usually get here. Great job!

Excellent!

Some stunning shots here. Great!

You can tell this guy really loves the water and the waves (who wouldn't in Hawaii??). These are very nice photographs...he has captured some special images that are interesting both creatively and technically.

Excellent and unique.

Gnarly bro, right on!

Theses are something special.

But there's always "Blue Crush", either the feature film or the documentary which came before.

The dry tubes in the shallow water are simple amazing !!!

These pictures of natural sea water splashes are much more interesting than those artifical paint splashes over the fields...

Much more dynamic and appealing than yesterday's post..... thank you for sharing this.

Imaginative, creative vision, great technical execution.....darn am at a loss for superlatives so will just say.....fantastic!

Fantastic images! I love photography that takes us to places we otherwise wouldn't have the chance to see. If it wasn't for the tropical background, I'd have thought #3 was an ice formation.

First came yesterday's paint photos and now this; keep posting these great works DPR.

Awesome shots. Keep up the great work.

Wonderful images.

I can't believe he can get these shots...shore break is a very powerful wave, sand in your pants time.

Thank you for sharing....and it looks like DPR will be posting on the weekends...

Sometimes i couldn't understand DPR's choice of photographers to present on weekends. Here, i don't scratch my head.

Beautiful set.

Amazing series!

Wow, fantastic images.

This is Photography, thank you dpreview staff!

This is Photography, thank you dpreview staff!

This is Photography, thank you dpreview staff!

Great images! I saw this guy on TV and as surfer myself, I can confirm than he is a bit crazy and sometime must take some very, very hard beating.

That's an impressive set. Quite a lot of stuff that I've not seen before. Particularly waves breaking against the sand and the view towards the palm tree through the waves

Superb moments indeed. As for EXIF,can we for once not turn everything into a gadget discussion? If you think you'll have a use for those settings, you can work them out yourself.