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Arthur “Toots” Anchinges, heels to skyline during a rare solo moment among the masses. Queens, Waikiki. Photo by Tony Heff.
The spaces between turns speak volumes. Interstitial quietude with Ozzie Wright in Western Australia. Photo by John Respondek.
Unidentified, stretching for the endgame after a wintertide run of swell in Ventura. Photo by Matt Lusk.
Viewed across a million light-years of vacuum, the atomic fusion of a star becomes a gentle twinkle. And now another lesson in how distance can make even the most violent environments seem peaceful: Unidentified at Pipeline. Photo by Corey Wilson.
Steph Gilmore, post-ride mindscape in northern Indonesia. Photo by Chris Gurney.
Positioning that, for most mortals, would emit the odors of the apocalypse is merely a loop through another West Oz hell-pit for horseman Russell Bierke. Photo by Brett Hemmings / Red Bull Content Pool. Nathan Florence, enjoying the line-selection perks of a pre-flare roll-in at the Pipeline. Photo by Brent Bielmann. Facial cataracts. Photo by Lloyd Meudell.Luke Hynd exhales in the caterpillar cave at Greenbush. Photo by Nate Lawrence.
Bryce Young splits into a Cheshire Cat grin during a trip through the cane fields on Oahu. Photo by Kenny Hurtado.
Photographer Morgan Maassen negotiates a lap on the flipside of the looking glass—with all efforts dutifully studied by his hound “Moose”—in Montecito. Photo by Will Adler.
Cross-step contrapposto at The Pass in Byron. Josie Prendergast. Photo by Morgan Maassen.
Derrick Disney, Harrison Roach, and Kai Hing, beating upwind in Morocco. Photo by Woody Gooch.
Dave Wassel, Backdoor. Photo by Luke Shadbolt.
[Feature image: Opposing wave angles, backlit and held together by surface tension, meet in 50 megapixels for 1/2,000 of a second. Photo by Sacha Specker.]
