Newport Beach Pro Surfing

I hit up 56th street on Saturday morning to take some pics of the NB Pro competitors. I think they turned out pretty good but what really blew my mind was looking at the photos that were posted on the official site later that day. Check out the photos below, basically as close as you can get to taking pictures at the exact same moment:
Mine of Shaun Burrell:

Hennings:


Mine of Micah Byrne:

Hennings:


The first is almost spot on, you can see a difference in the hand relationship to the board but the rest is essentially exact. Russ was standing probably 10 yards behind me and slightly up the beach so there is a difference in the angle. The second one it looks like I was behind by a fraction of a second, the board angle is lower and there is a longer trail of water coming off of it. Pretty trippy considering there weren't hundreds of photogs on the beach, actually only 3 or 4 that morning... Even better is that Russ Hennings is a sr. photog @ Surfing magazine, maybe I have an eye for this stuff after all?

I was using my Rebel XT w/ a Canon 100-400 4.5-5.6L lens, most shots fully extended and wide open. You can view the other pics in the gallery here:
Newport Beach Pro