When everything comes together at Teahupoo, the place is magic!
That morning was one of those mornings when the swell direction and size combined with the tide under the perfect weather created the dream conditions.
It was hard not to take good photos that day.
I shot this one of my friend Tahurai from the water with my Aquatech housing and a 24mm.
I submitted it to the RAW category as I thought the RAW file was already showing the beauty of the place and the conditions from that day.
It was shot in manual mode and this is the RAW shot as it comes from the camera.
Ben Thouard

About the shot
Biography
Ben grew up in the south of France, his father was a sailor and taught me everything about the ocean.
Coached by my older brothers, he quickly fell in love with surfing and spent the most time possible in the ocean.
He discovered photography at the age of 15 and start shooting his friends who surfed. Ben studied in a photography school in Paris, He managed to achieve his dreams of travelling to Hawaii and shooting images. During the next couple of years, I traveled the world alongside professionals in search of photogenic landscapes and waves that has never been surfed before.
At 22, he decided to move to Tahiti.
Ben quickly made Teahupo’o’s famous wave his backyard and his favorite place to shoot.
In the last years Ben has risen to the top of game being the one of the leading photographers based in the the tropical paradise called French Polynesia. Magazine covers, advertising campaigns, award winning images from the water and around it has lead to global success and acknowledgment from his peers and many happy clients world wide
Finally Ben now dedicates a lot of his time shooting Waves and Ocean images that are displayed in Art Galleries.
He recently released his first solo book "SURFACE", a 184 pages, hard cover, coffee table book that includes some very new and unseen images.