Backwash in surfing relates to the energy of a spent wave that rebounds from a solid object, like an inclined sandy shoreline, a seawall or wave breaker thus sending that partial band of energy wack towards the incoming waves. When they collide, backwash happens. At this point the two meeting forces of water create an amazing array of shapes and forms depending on whichever body of water has the greater energy. Every backwash creation is different, some look like rooster crops, others like demented sheets of molten metals. Each one is unique.
Like any liquid body the formation and body of the entity is totally unique. No two backwash elements are ever the same, it’s impossible to replicate one to another. This particular one happened as if by accident. I was tracking water coming in from the Ocean knowing I was in the zone for some backwash action. As it was also very early morning and I was shooting on the west coast of the island I could get the morning sun reflecting on the face of the rising vertical elements of this backwash result.
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