Stop everything and look at this Instagrammer's incredibly surreal ocean snaps

Prepare to be impressed.

God bless Instagram.

Case in point -- the work of photographer Warren Keelan, a master of the still image whose snaps will have you looking at the ocean in a whole new light.

Keelan is based in Wollongong, Australia, and has been a photographer for years, chalking up a number of awards. To take the snaps, Keelan paddles out into the ocean on a surfboard, often at unfriendly times of the day and in inhospitable temperatures.

"The hardest bit is getting out of bed knowing I have got a wet wetsuit to put on in freezing cold winter and then swimming out in the dark by myself off the beach waiting for the sun to come up," he said in an interview with the Illawarra Mercury.

But to say it's worth it is an understatement. Just look at Keelan's Instagram gems.

Sometimes Keelan's shots are so stylised they almost look like footage from an alien planet: like the hostile surface of Mars.

Kinda puts your shots of dinner to shame, hey?

Topics Instagram

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