The Surfers Journal
Aerial surf photography is on display in this image essay featuring locations like Waimea Bay, Rincon, Tavarua, Outside Log Cabins, Alligators and Teahupoo. Photographers Patrick Trefz, Tim McKenna, Don King, Rob Gilley, Sylvain Cazenave and Warren Bolster demonstrate the power shooting from above the horizon.
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Both Sides Now It’s nearly 9 p.m. on a late-summer night, just outside of Punta Mita, Nayarit, on Mexico’s Pacific coast. We’re on our way back from the beach after a twilight surf session and the rain is torrential, pounding onto the surfboards strapped to the racks of the red Jeep. Kylie Manning is riding […]
Lesley “Bird Man” Williams and Buzzy Trent stand in the doorway of the California gang’s Makaha house during the winter of 1951.
1918 was a great summer of surfing for George Freeth. After nearly a dozen years of giving exhibitions in California, he still drew large crowds. Advertisements for Ocean Beach in the local papers urged visitors, “See Champion Freeth ride the surfboards.” As he’d done in Venice back in 1907, Freeth also gave free surf lessons […]
To understand Cocoa Beach, Florida, you must first be a child here. For those of us who came late—who weren’t here yesterday, who never pedaled on spring-loaded legs up to the beach crossover, or jon-boated through the mangrove canals after school, or got trampled at the doors of the Surfside Playhouse on opening night of […]
Photo suite from lensmen Scott Aichner, j.brother, and Patrick Trefz.
A photo spread from locales around the globe featuring surfers such as, Mick Fanning, Kalani Robb, Dean Morrison and others. Photographers, Patrick Trefz, with several exceptional seascapes, Jack English’s classic J-Bay and other interesting shots are just two of the excellent photographers featured in this balanced depictions of surfing, surfers, places and situations, found in the exceptional everyday ocean experience.
It’s an epic way to travel and surf—sometimes. Christian recounts the harrowing journey of his sailing trip in the winter of 2009 from San Diego to Baja, California, aboard his handmade 19th-century-style work boat “Comorant”. Now he’s back home, rested up, and ready to take on the West Coast of North America.
“The surf journalism, professional surfing and surfwear mogulling that Michael Peterson has done successfully over his stylish career are explored in this article that traces the roots of Michael Peterson’s creation and management of Gotcha and More Core Division. There’s also a discussion of the glories of his Backside Attack, for the Pipeline history buffs amongst you.”
ARRIVALS June 17, 1997, Pavones, Costa Rica I’m watching through my camper’s open door as the first wave of a stacked-up set wraps in from the south and charges across the seascape in the dreamy glow of first light. The wave churns its way through the inside shallows then rushes over the beach in front […]
“Photographic framework from recent submissions, including a collection of land and water shots that provide unique perspectives on the surfer-barrel relationship.”
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