More stormy weather

Just some more stormy weather photos taken on Venice Beach over the past week. I was hoping to find someone out there surfing, but the surf was too rough. I don’t know what it’s called, but the shot of the crashing wave after the jump is something that happens when a wave coming in from the ocean collides with a wave that’s coming back out to sea from the coast. I think it’s caused by a steep incline near the shore that forces the water back out. On a smaller scale I found myself in that spot in El Porto, a beach a couple miles south, while surfing a couple weeks back and was pretty close to getting hit in the head by my own board by the force of it. On the scale seen in this photo I’m not surprised no one was out in the water! The fire spinner is Ricky Otterstrom, who was out practicing atop one of the winter dunes on the beach. A few days ago I complained on Facebook about getting sand in everything. This was when that occurred. Despite the wet sand from days of rain the wind was strong enough to dry off the top layer and send it whipping across the dunes. I shot him for a couple minutes until I couldn’t take the beating anymore and called it quits.