Photographer Captures Powerful Waves on Lake Erie as Liquid Mountains

[Cattledog]

Dave Sanford is a professional sports photographer of 18 years whose hometown is London, Ontario, Canada. Over the past 4 weeks, for 2 to 3 days per week, Sandford has been driving 45 minutes to Lake Erie, spending up to 6 hours a day photographing the lake.

The photos are awe-inspiring: Sandford gets in the water and shoots the powerful choppy waves in a way that makes them look like epic mountain peaks that are exploding into the atmosphere.









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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. These are magnificent waves!

He clearly knows what he's doing. The waves look quite dangerous. And cold!

Great art is being made by him.

Thanks for sharing these!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

2. K&R. Thank you for posting this art.

Dave seems to be a master at capturing nature's brutal forces and light at the perfect moment. He's one hell of a dedicated artist.

KY.........

[2naSalit]

3. Wow!

Looks like a summertime endeavor.

[Scarsdale]

4. Wow. Magnificent photos.

Mother Nature is awe-inspiring. Great photography.

[3Hotdogs]

5. The brave guy is the guy who took the photo of Dave.

But the photos are attention grabbing.

[Callalily]

6. Amazing photos.

Lake Erie along with the rest of the Great Lakes can be very powerful and threatening.

[Danascot]

7. This one looks like

a figure dressed in robes with the skull of an ape or neanderthal wearing an elaborate headpiece and with it's right arm extended.

I think I might get out of the water if I'd seen that.

[liberal N proud]

8. The lake is relatively shallow

For the size of the body of water, Lake Erie is relatively shallow and can be very wicked.

We lived on the southern shore for many years and some of the winter storms are wild.

[SergeStorms]

13. It's the shallowest of all the Great Lakes....

which is why it almost always freezes over in the winter, the only Lake in the chain to do that.

The average depth of the Great Lakes are;
Lake Superior - 483 feet
Lake Ontario - 283feet
Lake Michigan - 279 feet
Lake Huron - 195 feet
Lake Erie - 62 feet

The shallowness of Lake Erie is what generates these large waves, although I've sailed in 15 ft. waves on Ontario, which is scary as all hell. There are rogue waves that can reach 25+ feet in all of the Lakes but Erie. The real hazard of boating in the Great Lakes is these waves can come at you in several different directions at the same time. Strange, but true. It's a great place to sail, but dangerous.

[wnylib]

15. Where on the southern shore of Erie did you live?

I'm a native of a southern shore city and have lived on the southern shore of Erie in 3 different states. (Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, and Buffalo)

[liberal N proud]

16. Avon/Avon Lake

[wnylib]

17. I'm familiar with Avon Lake. Not far from Elyria.

When I lived in Cleveland, it was actually Westlake, on the edge of Cuyahoga County, near the Loraine County line. That was decades ago. We moved there from Erie, my home town.

[msongs]

9. dirty water nt

[panader0]

10. Reminds me of this:

[tclambert]

11. I was thinking the waves looked Japanese as well.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Compare to fiction pics - reality vs non

https://imgur.com/gallery/Klv1VSU

[wendyb-NC]

14. Wow! Thanks for sharing the waves on Lake Erie.

I never imagined such large ominous stormy waves on a lake. Erie is one of the Great lakes, and a smaller of 5. Eh gad, can you imagine what they look like on Lake Superior. Amazing, beautiful photographs.