Waveriders นักโต้คลื่น
In Huntington Beach, California, the third annual multi-faith Blessing of the Waves event was held to honor the ocean and protest coastal pollution. Several thousand reportedly attended the event, in part to recognize a spiritual aspect of man's relationship to water, the coastline, and the surf. Whether it's massive rolling ocean waves, or standing waves in rivers, or wind-driven lakewater, people around the world find a way to get out and ride on belly boards, kiteboards, longboards, wakeboards and more. As summer rolls to a close, find here a collection of recent photographs of these waveriders around the world over the past several months.
เมืองฮันติงตันบีช มลรัฐแคลิฟอร์เนีย มีการจัดโต้คลื่นเทิดเกียรติภูมิของมหาสมุทร พร้อมกับประท้วงการสร้างมลพิษในแนวชายฝั่ง รายงานว่ามีผู้คนเข้าร่วมมากหมายหลายพันคน
Former three-time Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Champion Andy Irons from Kauai, Hawaii rides the tube of a wave Friday Sept. 3, 2010. Irons captured his first ASP World Tour victory in three years defeating CJ Hobgood in the final. (AP Photo/ASP, Kirstin Scholtz)
อดีตแชมป์สามสมัย แอนดี ไอออน จากฮาวาย
อดีตแชมป์สามสมัย แอนดี ไอออน จากฮาวาย
Luke Davis of the US competes in his heat during the US Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach, California on August 4, 2010. The event celebrates its 51st year beside the historic Huntington Pier which is considered the birthplace of California's surfing culture. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) #
ลุก เดวิส จากอเมริกา
ลุก เดวิส จากอเมริกา
5 นักโต้คลื่นเพื่อทำสถิติกินเนส
Surfers ride a wave in the annual Earthwave event, where the participating surfers try to break the Guinness World Record for the number of surfers surfing a single wave on September 26, 2010 at the Muizemberg beach, Cape Town, South Africa. Unconfirmed reports are that 95 surfers simultaneously rode a wave together, not enough to break the record of 103, set the previous year, at the same beach. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images) #
Reverend Matt Munoz (center) heads to the surf with Reverend Christian Mondor (left) during the Blessing of the Waves ceremony at the pier in Huntington Beach, California on Sunday, Oct. 3,2010. Hundreds of Californians joined surfing priests and religious leaders from multiple faiths Sunday to honor the ocean and protest coastal pollution. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) #
9 การโต้คลื่นนอกฝั่งตะวันออกของออสเตรเลีย
A surfer rides a wave as a low pressure system creates large swell on the east coast of Australia at Bronte Beach on September 18, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. Swells of around 3 meters occurred off the coast of Sydney, causing hazardous conditions along parts of the East Coast. A new record was set off of Tasmania on September 16 with one wave reaching 18.4 meters, a new national record. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) #
Surfers ride waves in the water off of the Montauk lighthouse on September 3, 2010 in Montauk, New York. Much of the East Coast was preparing for Hurricane Earl, a category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 miles per hour that passed by with little effect in September. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) #
Belly boarders run into the surf at Chapel Porth in the first warm-up heat of the 2010 championship on September 5, 2010 in Cornwall, England. Over a hundred belly board surfers of all ages and all on traditional wooden belly boards, gathered for the annual belly board world championship charity event organized for the National Trust and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The event was started in 2002 as a celebration of how surfing began in Britain more than a century ago. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)#
The Minneapolis skyline rises in the background as Chase Hazen of Discovery Bay, California, practices in the surf division during the World Wakesurfing Championships on the Mississippi River as part of the part of the Aquatennial Festival, Thursday, July 22, 2010 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wakesurfers start with the aid of a tow rope which they release from and surf a boat's wake. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) #
Andy Irons of Hawaii places 9th overall at the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay Saturday, July 17, 2010. (AP Photo/ASP, Kirston Scholtz) #
A surfer enters the waters off Long Beach, New York on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/David Goldman) #