Unlike climbers, who give routes clever names like The Sound of One Hand Slapping or Tammy Baker’s Face, surfers tend toward straight forward names.
“Poles” is the name of a break at the west end of Ditch Plains beach, so named for the poles, the remains of a house that once stood on the bluff, that overlooked the break. The house is long gone, the original poles too. These appeared sometime after the last nor’easter.
David Ryan
David Ryan is a boat builder and USCG licensed master captain. He is the owner of Sailing Montauk and skipper of Montauk''s charter sailing catamaran MON TIKI You can follow him on Twitter @CaptDavidRyan
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Near where I grew up, from South to North: Big Rock, Pump House (made famous by Tom Wolfe), Wind-n-Sea, Turtles, Middles, Simons, Little Point, Rock Pile, Marine Street, Horseshoe.Report
Great blue shadows. Sometimes I forget that shadows have color and are not just shades of gray.
Painters have been scolded for rendering colored shadows. The photo exonerates them.Report
My commercial photography mentor David Loveall was very good at playing with different colors of white light. We’d carry a full set of correction gels from CTB +2 to CTO +2 and color key and fill in different ways for different effects.
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