I hope this is okay with a separate thread, as it's not really about the Olympics, but just how amazing this photo is. It was shot during the Olympics, although the surfing is being held thousands of miles away in Tahiti. This is real, no photoshop.
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July 30, 2024, 05:52 PM
trapper189
That picture looks funky, but it is really cool. That’s Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina.
July 30, 2024, 05:54 PM
kkina
I've heard of walking on water, but walking above water?!
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July 31, 2024, 11:46 AM
bendable
Raise your hand if you know what the loneliest number is.
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July 31, 2024, 01:24 PM
Zecpull
It says not photoshopped but that perfect rectangle cloud looks pretty fake.
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July 31, 2024, 02:14 PM
12131
It's not photoshopped. All those who have imagined something out of the clouds raise your hand.
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July 31, 2024, 02:48 PM
kkina
Just watch the video that Gearhounds was good enough to post.
I'm more amazed at his ride through the tube, wow.
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July 31, 2024, 03:40 PM
fritz
Gabriel's ride on that amazing wave was just stunning. His exit from the wave was pretty darn amazing, too. The photographer who caught that precise moment, from that great angle, documented the proverbial once-in-a-blue-moon moment. That kind of shot in major competitions sometimes makes a person's media career.
I still recall the photo of Hermann Maier's ski crash in the 1998 Olympics. The photographer caught him in mid air, close to being upside down, with a look on his face of "Oh shit, this is gonna hurt."
August 01, 2024, 08:25 PM
wrightd
I didn't believe it until I watched the video. Amazing shot.
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August 02, 2024, 06:25 AM
bendable
Hand up
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August 03, 2024, 01:15 AM
SigSauerP226
quote:
Originally posted by trapper189: That picture looks funky, but it is really cool. That’s Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina.
Funky cold* Medina started playing in my head after reading your post and looking at the awesome picture
...Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, was just a freight train coming your way...
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