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Breaking wave, fast motion and blur, The Wedge.
Image ID: 14355
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | Two blue whales, a mother and her calf, swim through the open ocean in this aerial photograph. The calf is blowing (spouting, exhaling) with a powerful column of spray. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on Earth.
Image ID: 02304
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad.
Image ID: 17679
Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA |
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A great white shark opens it mouth just before it attacks its prey with a crippling, powerful bite. After the prey has been disabled, the shark will often wait for it to weaken from blood loss before resuming the attack. If the shark looses a tooth in the course of the bite, a replacement just behind it will move forward to take its place.
Image ID: 19452
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | 2006 Mavericks surf contest champion Grant Twiggy Baker of South Africa. Final round, Mavericks surf contest, February 7, 2006.
Image ID: 15299
Location: Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, California, USA | Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad.
Image ID: 17680
Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA |
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A green wave breaking, with sunset light filtering through.
Image ID: 19395
Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA | Breaking wave, fast motion and blur. The Wedge.
Image ID: 14354
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | Surf grass on the rocky reef -- appearing blurred in this time exposure -- is tossed back and forth by powerful ocean waves passing by above. San Clemente Island.
Image ID: 10237
Species: Surfgrass, Phyllospadix
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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A large, powerful wave breaks with offshore winds at the Wedge in Newport Beach.
Image ID: 18706
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | Breaking wave, tube, hollow barrel, morning surf.
Image ID: 19553 | The bisons massive head is its most characteristic feature. Its forehead bulges because of its convex-shaped frontal bone. Its shoulder hump, dwindling bowlike to the haunches, is supported by unusually long spinal vertebrae. Over powerful neck and shoulder muscles grows a great shaggy coat of curly brown fur, and over the head, like an immense hood, grows a shock of black hair. Its forequarters are higher and much heavier than its haunches. A mature bull stands about 6 1/2 feet (2 meters) at the shoulder and weighs more than 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms). The bisons horns are short and black. In the male they are thick at the base and taper abruptly to sharp points as they curve outward and upward; the females horns are more slender.
Image ID: 13120
Species: American bison, Bison bison
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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Blue whale and San Onofre Nuclear Power generating station, raising fluke prior to diving for food, fluking up, lifting its tail as it swims in the open ocean foraging for food.
Image ID: 27337
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Dana Point, California, USA | Ponto, South Carlsbad, morning surf.
Image ID: 17718
Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA | Ponto, South Carlsbad, morning surf.
Image ID: 17720
Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA |
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A wave, breaking with powerful energy, at the Wedge in Newport Beach.
Image ID: 16988
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | A wave, breaking with powerful energy, at the Wedge in Newport Beach.
Image ID: 16992
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | A tube, the inside of a breaking wave.
Image ID: 17007
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA |
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Dawn patrol morning surf, hollow wave.
Image ID: 20797
Location: Cardiff by the Sea, California, USA | Breaking wave, tube, hollow barrel, morning surf.
Image ID: 19534 | Tube, Cylinders, the Wedge.
Image ID: 16996
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA |
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Ocotillo Wind Energy Turbines, at night with stars and the Milky Way in the sky above, the moving turbine blades illuminated by a small flashlight.
Image ID: 30239
Location: Ocotillo, California, USA | Breaking wave at the Wedge.
Image ID: 14370
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | Ponto, South Carlsbad, morning surf.
Image ID: 17783
Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA |
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Breaking wave, early morning surf.
Image ID: 19404
Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA | Breaking wave, early morning surf.
Image ID: 19405
Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA | Breaking wave, early morning surf.
Image ID: 19406
Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA |
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Breaking wave, tube, hollow barrel, morning surf.
Image ID: 19532 | Brock Little, final round, Mavericks surf contest (third place), February 7, 2006.
Image ID: 15300
Location: Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, California, USA | Blue whale fluke, powerful tail that propels the huge whale through the open ocean.
Image ID: 01910
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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