There will be big surf along the CA coast this week. This photo was taken from the promenade in Carlsbad, CA. I thought the surf might be finished, but the big surf remains today, 4 days after the storms rolled in. In Northern CA, the waves were as high as 60 feet.
Along with others, this picture was done to catalogue the look and texture of waves for some watercolors I've been working on. But this particular photo stands alone as a pretty nice photographic rendition of wave dynamics.