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Photographer captures immense power of stunning Hawaii’s Banzai Pipeline waves

Watching the waves is one of the activities that always leaves a big impression on me. While I find it soothing on the one hand, on the other, watching massive waves crash against a pear or a beach makes me feel humbled in front of nature’s force and power.

Photographer Kevin Krautgartner perfectly captured both the soothing and the powerful nature of waves in his project titled Pipeline. It’s a series of aerial images showing the beauty, colors, textures, and immense power of the world-famous Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii.

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These aerial photos will make you see familiar shapes in the surfs on the shore

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Remember that little game we’d play as kids, finding familiar shapes in the clouds? I still play it from time to time, but Australia-based photographer Peter Adams-Shawn has raised it to a whole new level. His project titled “From the Deep” features aerial photos, taken with a drone above the surfs of his local beach. In the photos he takes, surfs form various shapes we can analyze and recognize something familiar in them. He shared some of his wonderful images with DIYP, so let’s see – can you still play this game?

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These Photos Of Mountains Are Actually Photos Of Waves

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At first glance I thought that these were giant mountains, but then I realized that these were actually waves. Photographer Ray Collins has a unique point of view of waves. And it is not a surprise, he spends so much time in water that he is quite intimate with those watery creatures. We asked Ray about the photos and they are not taken from the shore, they are taken from inside the water, very close to the waves, wearing a wetsuit and a pair of fins.

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