About Delicious Salt Bagels

Chris Clark is a San Francisco-based wave photographer. He refers to his images as "Delicious Salt Bagels”, often using the rounded shape of a wave’s tube to frame landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge and Cliff House. Capturing these images while bodysurfing shallow and sometimes heavy shore break, Chris gives viewers a first-person perspective from inside the pocket of a wave. Born a fish out of water with a lifelong connection to the ocean, Chris learned to love bodysurfing as a Junior Lifeguard in the 1980s and began taking pictures from inside waves circa 2010. Headshot of Chris Clark taken by Louis Royer His passion for photography and storytelling evolved alongside a career at GoPro, where he became a skilled user of GoPro products, which are his primary capture tools in the water. In January 2025, Chris began to pursue artistic photography full-time. Today, he offers a range of art, from handmade greeting card prints to large fine art prints of life-size waves for clients’ walls. Residing with his family in the outside lands of San Francisco, Chris combines his love for the ocean and San Francisco with an artistic vision to bring fleeting moments in the surf to life.Read their story