Thor's Majesty

Majeed Badizadegan · Mar 3, 2013

So I guess I've been going here a lot lately. Probably twice in the the last month. This place is called Thor's Well, for those of you who don't know. Water shoots straight up this hole and waves come crashing in on either side of you. It's a dangerous, adrenaline-pumping experience. I've been hoping for partly cloudy weather and big surf conditions like this, but the two coming together hasn't happened until now.

Tides were particularly dangerous this day. In fact, the risk became a reality when a big wave came in and knocked me and my camera down. I was in full waders, but I was no match for the force of the surf. Fortunately I just scuffed my knee, and besides that, there was no major equipment damage.

I was lucky to get such wave action and a big sky to go along with it.

Thor's Majesty by Majeed Badizadegan (Rotanimod), on Flickr

kathyt · Mar 3, 2013

I am so glad to hear that your camera was okay! jk. Beautiful. I don't get to see this stuff around Chi-town, that's for sure.

RobN185 · Mar 3, 2013

Superb shot - #1 on 500px, well done and well deserved!

mishele · Mar 3, 2013

Thor!! I'm glad to hear you're ok. You need to be careful out there, friend. Beautiful shot.
btw...I went on a Chris Hemsworth bender last weekend. I watched like 3 movies w/ him in it. You inspired it...lol

eswebster · Mar 3, 2013

Amazing, by far the best composition, color, and shutter speed to smooth the water out yet. Wall worthy.

invisible · Mar 3, 2013

This is by far the best image of this place that you've posted (which is saying a lot, because the others didn't exactly suck). This one has an otherworldly feel that justifies its high ranking on 500px.com – congrats on being #1! If there's anything I would change – and this is nit picking, really – it would be the blue cast on the water, which I personally think is too strong... but the crowd on 500px doesn't seem to agree

EDIT: Nominated for March POTM.

mishele · Mar 3, 2013

invisible said:
EDIT: Nominated for March POTM.

You beat me to it!! lol Great nomination!!

runnah · Mar 3, 2013

I guess Thor's Majesty has a better ring to it than Earth's Anus.

Best photo I have seen you post.

TimLindstedt · Mar 3, 2013

This one is beautiful! Love this shot!

Mully · Mar 3, 2013

Really great shot....now that you are safe you can reflect back and be glad you got the shot.

Majeed Badizadegan · Mar 3, 2013

kathythorson said:
I am so glad to hear that your camera was okay! jk. Beautiful. I don't get to see this stuff around Chi-town, that's for sure.

Lol thanks Kathy. Yeah I'm glad the camera is okay too. Me? Ill heal. Electronics don't do that healing thing so well...

RobN185 said:
Superb shot - #1 on 500px, well done and well deserved!

Thank you Rob!!

mishele said:
Thor!! I'm glad to hear you're ok. You need to be careful out there, friend. Beautiful shot.
btw...I went on a Chris Hemsworth bender last weekend. I watched like 3 movies w/ him in it. You inspired it...lol

But you said that I am more dashing than Hemsworth, remember?

eswebster said:
Amazing, by far the best composition, color, and shutter speed to smooth the water out yet. Wall worthy.

Thanks thanks!

invisible said:
This is by far the best image of this place that you've posted (which is saying a lot, because the others didn't exactly suck). This one has an otherworldly feel that justifies its high ranking on 500px.com – congrats on being #1! If there's anything I would change – and this is nit picking, really – it would be the blue cast on the water, which I personally think is too strong... but the crowd on 500px doesn't seem to agree

EDIT: Nominated for March POTM.

Good thought and one I definitely considered. I've definitely gone that direction in the past, but felt this shot is so much more inviting with this color palette.

Thanks for the nomination!

runnah said:
I guess Thor's Majesty has a better ring to it than Earth's Anus.

Best photo I have seen you post.

Lol'd and thanks

TimLindstedt said:
This one is beautiful! Love this shot!

Thanks Tim.

Mully said:
Really great shot....now that you are safe you can reflect back and be glad you got the shot.

Yep

Michael79 · Mar 3, 2013

This shot is absolutely amazing, I am very jealous of your surroundings! Thanks for sharing, I hope to one day see it in person.

KrisztinaK · Mar 3, 2013

This is an incredible shot. So glad to hear that neither you nor your equipment suffered any major damage. You are certainly braver than I would ever be to get a shot like this. Certainly praise worthy, you absolutely deserve POTM nomination with this shot.

Majeed Badizadegan · Mar 3, 2013

Michael79 said:
This shot is absolutely amazing, I am very jealous of your surroundings! Thanks for sharing, I hope to one day see it in person.

Thanks a lot. I can't complain, there's a lot to do here!

KrisztinaK said:
This is an incredible shot. So glad to hear that neither you nor your equipment suffered any major damage. You are certainly braver than I would ever be to get a shot like this. Certainly praise worthy, you absolutely deserve POTM nomination with this shot.

Thanks. The extent of the damage was my lower tripod leg got bent 45 degrees. Replacement part is on the way from Europe