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Earlier this month there were some storms that crossed Tasmania associated with a significant low pressure system.
I happened to be at Rocky Cape on the northwest coast when the worst of it hit that area.
I was set up on the rocks with my tripod taking photos and nearly getting blown over.
When I looked up after taking several, there was a wave right in front of me - a significantly large and threatening wall of water, just held there with the wind, not progressing, spray tearing away from the top of the wave as its substance was stripped by the wind, reduced to nothing more than a small whitewater turmoil. A most amazing sight and one that told me to get off the rocks!!
Here's one I took before I looked up, that I thought I would share.



Comments / critique welcome.

Very nice photo,

the longer shutter speed gives a nice effect.

Did you take any with a faster shutter speed ?

andrewt wrote:Did you take any with a faster shutter speed ?

1/25" is the fastest I got, but they're mostly blurry. Even though I was on a tripod, the wind was buffeting me and making the camera vibrate. It was quite incredible how strong the wind was.
Strange / lucky, but all the good images I got were slower exposures.
I was looking for a bit of motion to capture the dramatic effect of the wind, hence no faster ones.