Ocean Acrobat Print Type:Fine Art Paper The local breaks reward photographers

The local breaks reward photographers willing to paddle out before light

Bishop Peak and Cerro San Luis are the better-known inland ones

Ben shot this at West Bay

and early-morning stillness

accessible only by F-roads that the country opens for a few months each summer and closes again under the snow

Ocean Acrobat Print Type:Fine Art Paper The local breaks reward photographersRoughly half of the North Pacific's humpback whales somewhere over ten thousand animals migrate to the warm shallow water around Maui every winter to calve and mate. They breach for reasons biologists still debate: communication, parasite removal, play, maybe assertion. The full body launches require firing forty tons of whale through the surface. Tom catches one mid air.