Psychedelic Surfer

Portrait of a Psychedelic Surfer

Portrait of a ‘Psychedelic Surfer’ was chosen as the ‘photo of the week’ at photographyblog.com. The portrait of Ian Pace posing with his board at Compton Bay is a wide angle ‘Vertorama’, a digital composite stitched just like a panorama but vertical instead of horizontal.

The surf wasnt very good that day and i’d been taking shots of the west wight landscape with the wonderful ‘cirrus fibratus vertebratus’ sky and it struck me how perfect the setting would be for a shot of ‘Pacey’ in his natural element with a bit of whooshing from the clouds and the waves surging up the beach.