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Nice photo from surfing  - perfect timing in the shot and not photoshopped 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/stunning-photo-of-olympic-surfer-s-mid-air-celebration-goes-viral/ar-BB1qRxit

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The image, captured by Jerome Brouillet for Agence France-Presse, showed Medina and his tethered board appearing to perform parallel levitations above the South Pacific Ocean. Rather than a scene of serenity, however, the photo told a striking tale of the Olympics’ competitive spirit, given that Medina was using his right arm and raised index finger to make a “No. 1” gesture while in midair.

The 30-year-old Medina, a three-time World Surf League champion, had good reason to proclaim his primacy. He had expertly dropped into a barrel and emerged on the other side not just with aplomb, but with all his fingers raised in a signal to judges to award him a perfect 10. Some did just that, and Medina came away with a score of 9.90 that marked a new Olympic record for a single wave run.

Medina then rode up the wave and kicked out the back of it in triumphant style. Having photographed the Brazilian star in similar poses a number of times in the past, Brouillet was ready.

“I was not surprised about that, I was prepared,” the 39-year-old photographer, who has been shooting surfing and other sports for most of a decade, said in a phone interview Monday evening. “I and the other photographers on the boat were supposing he was going to make a kick-out, and that’s what he did.

“So I pushed the button,” he added with a laugh.

Taken just before Medina dropped back into the water, Brouillet’s photo also made quite the splash. Distributed by his Paris-based news agency and Getty Images, it quickly caught steam online as posts praising it turned into countless reshares. Brouillet, a native of France, used a solid command of English to discuss his eye-catching work and how he learned it went viral during a break in the Olympic action.

“I took [out] my phone and I had so many notifications, about Instagram and stuff like that. I just clicked and I saw an unusual amount of followers following me,” he said with a chuckle. “So I guessed something was happening, and then saw first a post from Brazil with the shot, and then it goes — I don’t know how to say in English — in the vortex, and then … it goes viral. Amazing, surprising.”

 

 

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