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This was taken by Amy Sansom on the mid north coast of NSW, and “is considered a ‘secret spot’ by locals with a reef break that only occurs with a certain wind and swell combination”.

The colour in that wave is quite gorgeous, and the light hitting the top breaks it into layers, giving it an even better effect. The white billowing spume is an added bonus. The diagonal of the foreground silhouette is also a nice touch. The lighting is cold and with those dark craggy foreground rocks and bushes gives a slightly ominous feel, but then the eye moves past that on to that wonderfully lit wave. My one thought is that the top third of the water is

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