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Wave Breaking at Sunrise

A powerful ocean wave crests and breaks over a rocky shelf at sunrise, with sunlight backlighting the water to create a glowing green effect.

A slab of water heaving over the shallow ledge at Shark Island off Cronulla at sunrise, the sun directly behind the lip so it glows bottle green and the droplets off the crest sparkle, the step in the face below dark, bottle green, gold and black, 200mm from the rock shelf See more

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