Sep 09 2008

Photo of Shark at Ocean Beach

Published by Evan at 9:48 am under Sharks

Shark at Ocean Beach

Here’s a photo from a couple days ago of a surfer blasting the top of a wave at glassy, beautiful Ocean Beach, San Francisco… oh wait, there’s a fin in the background?!

Ocean Beach, San Francisco is in the Red Triangle, or in case you haven’t heard is one of the sharkiest places in the world. There have been a slew of recent great white sightings at Ocean Beach and Stinson Beach, further north in Marin. Stinson Beach was closed over Labor Day Weekend because of shark sightings.

10 Responses to “Photo of Shark at Ocean Beach”

  1. # Ocean Beach Surfer & Shark Picture | The Fear Beneathon 13 Sep 2008 at 9:04 am

    [...] Source: SurfThereNow.com [...]

  2. # tkane2000on 13 Sep 2008 at 5:58 pm

    do we know for sure this wasn’t photoshopped?

  3. # markuson 15 Sep 2008 at 9:25 am

    holy crap!

  4. # Evanon 15 Sep 2008 at 9:33 pm

    we don’t know for sure that it’s not photoshopped, probably would require a digital photo expert to determine it. it completely believable considering the number of sightings up in san francisco and marin county in the last month. i surfed ocean beach for five years and there were at least a couple sharks sightings a year.

  5. # j2on 18 Sep 2008 at 4:48 am

    It seems odd that the surfer is not the center of the photo and luck that the shark just made it in the shot…the sharks are always out there crusing just outside the line up but rarely at the surface like that so close…looks fake to me

  6. # brittanyon 20 Feb 2009 at 5:04 am

    now, honestly dont you think if he was going to photoshop this, he would make it much more dramatic then what you guys think he did to it. seriously…. if you have nothing good to say, dont say anything.

  7. # brittanyon 20 Feb 2009 at 5:05 am

    and also, with the comment right before mine… it seems odd the surfer isnt in the middle? well considering hes riding a wave.. you try taking a picture of a surfer and put the surfer in the middle….

  8. # sumdum surferon 07 Apr 2009 at 3:23 pm

    shopped or not, it’s not a fin. it looks like a muir in flight. no wake in water. not triangular. let’s move on.

  9. # rogeron 22 Apr 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Dolphins

  10. # Johnon 21 Aug 2009 at 8:07 am

    # j2on 18 Sep 2008 at 4:48 am
    It seems odd that the surfer is not the center of the photo and luck that the shark just made it in the shot…the sharks are always out there crusing just outside the line up but rarely at the surface like that so close…looks fake to me—

    I am a photographer and it looks to me that the photographer here was following the rule of thirds, that is you never position your subject in the center of a frame, and ask any world famous photographer out there that is honest and they will admit that some of their best shots were lucky shots. The front dorsal fin however does look a little like a bird in flight though and the rear dorsal fin a bird chillin’ in the water.

    Just my 2c

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