This is JR, one of the kite surfers. He's very exciting to watch.
This afternoon, around 1530, I went outside to take Bevo for a walk and noticed the wind was picking up. I loaded up my gear and went straight to Chapoquoit where, as I expected, I found several kite surfers - probably more than ten. The wind was over 20 mph, and the tide was coming in. I had to retreat to the elevated parking lot after about an hour of shooting because the surf was lapping at the legs of my tripod.
The surfer in this photograph is JR. I don't see him that often, but I love to photograph him; lots of energy! Capturing the kite of another surfer in the background was a happy accident.
The world outside my little town by the ocean is crazy and escaping to the beach to photograph the surfers is a good way to leave all the nonsense behind, at least briefly.
Monte