{"id":751,"date":"2017-04-04T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2017-04-04T12:33:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:33:53","slug":"the-kraken-huge-surf-on-the-north-shore-of-kauai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-kraken-huge-surf-on-the-north-shore-of-kauai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kraken &#8211; Huge surf on the North Shore of Kauai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;that was fun.  Had a last minute private workshop client last Friday 3\/31 and just so happened to coincide with a massive 25-30&#8242; WNW swell.  While waves that size are common in the winter, a swell of that size this time of year is relatively rarer.  What this means is that the sun is in a completely different part of the sky than usual toward sunset.  Knowing this we went down to a favorite spot but decided that it wasnt safe to go any farther so hung out on the rocks and shot a bunch of impact and abstracts.  Being that the sun is far enough north the late afternoon light doesnt get blocked by Mt. Makana.  This is what I was excited for.  This particular capture was just after I pulled out my longer lens and looked up to see this monstrosity stand up headed toward the rocks.  With the strong back-lighting I fired a few shots in hope of capturing the elusive beast&#8230;The Kraken.  <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<br \/>\naF<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"833\" height=\"567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-03-31_008web-TheKraken.jpg\" alt=\"Massive swell at sunset along north shore of Kaua&#039;i.\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-03-31_008web-TheKraken.jpg 833w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-03-31_008web-TheKraken-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-03-31_008web-TheKraken-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-03-31_008web-TheKraken-700x476.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-03-31_008web-TheKraken-30x20.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Kraken&#8221; (unreleased) \u00a9 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;that was fun. Had a last minute private workshop client last Friday 3\/31 and just so happened to coincide with a massive 25-30&#8242; WNW swell. While waves that size are common in the winter, a swell of that size this time of year is relatively rarer. What this means is that the sun is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,144,143,81,219,70],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image-discussion","tag-kauai","tag-princeville","tag-queens-bath","tag-surf","tag-swell","tag-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}