One of my favorite shots from Teahupoo. Just the atmosphere. May 14th, 2013. Photo:
Ben Thouard.
Colin (Whitbread) is my go to guy, he used to live just down the street and we always seem to link up with great light and conditions. Photo:
Myles McGuinness
A Deal, NJ landscape with a backwash wave opening up. Photo: Christor Lukasiewicz
Rifles. If only I had a dollar for every time someone dropped an F-bomb when they saw this one. And yes, he made it over...just. Photo:
John Barton
Portugal. Land of Secrets. Photo: Joao Bracourt
Solitude. Photo: Miles McGuinnes
"As long as the sea and the waves fascinate me so much , i will keep on surfing... togather with studying the bible". Photo: Gai Schteinberg
Lone surfer in West End, NJ going out for another epic ride. Photo: Christor Lukasiewicz
The end of the Road. Photo: Joao Bracourt
And that looks about right. Photo: Jason Corroto
Bethany Hamilton. Photo: MIke Coots
Beards and hoods. Photo: Mark McInnis
Empty. Aside from the birds. Photo: Colin Nearman
I'm convinced that Rob can pretty much surf on anything under his feet. Here he is from an alaia session in Carlsbad. Photo:
Anthony Ghiglia
South peak flarring up at Blacks Beach, 2013. Photo: Miles McGuinness
The Fin Project. Photo: Tim Hogan
Bryan Johnson gets a solo session in on a below zero morning. That's seasmoke on the surface caused by frigid temps hitting the high-30 water temps. Photo:
Brian Nevins
Cold doesn't exist. Photo: Brian Nevins
The Outer Banks is for real. Photo: Ben Crum
Nate Smith won the Red Bull Illume Best Close up and Athletes Choice award with. Andrew Mooney. Photo:
Nate Smith
Here's Surfline forecaster Jon Warren on a screamer during a trip to central America last summer. Photo:
Myles McGuinness
Rincon. Santa Barbara, California. Photo:
Joe Curren
Manasquan. Photo: Joanne O'Shaughnessy
James McKean, navigating with a very foggy compass. Photo:
Stuart Gibson
Bruce Irons risking life and limb on a solid close out end section to an OTW wave. I saw him coming and couldn't believe he did this. I'm pretty sure he didn't do it for the shot as he got pretty lit up in the flats but I'm stoked he did and glad he didn't break a leg doing so. Photo:
Nate Smith
Escaping flood waters added some great colors to the mini peaks on this day. Photo:
Deb Morris
Yannick De Jager, pictured, with a strange view; not photographed with a fisheye but with a 50 mm. Photo: Gyselinck
A lone surfer at the Da Hui Backdoor Shootout, Pipeline. Photo:
Sean Davey
Perfect line of waves at one of Hobart's point breaks in Tasmania, Australia. Photo:
Sean Davey
Sometimes everything lines up perfect. Pete Devries, lining it up. Photo:
Kyler Vos
Liquid Gold. Directly after a storm, run off from tea-trees tinted the water, creating spectacular color and light. Photo:
Adam Duffy
A mid winter pulse producing some clean lines. Cayucos California. Photo:
Colin Nearman
I believe this is Tim Tebow just moments before paddling out at Blacks Beach. One of those days when the mist from the waves get pushed against the cliffs to make for some dramactic light. Easily one of my favorite beaches in the world. Photo:
Myles McGuinness
Martin Cabada. Walking on water. Photo: Robb Wilson
Mini waves are arguably the greatest thing to photograph when it’s flat. Photo:
Ed Sloane
Skip the sunset mojitos with Bali's white linen crowd and get over to the Bukit to catch the best light of the day shining through a wall of Indian Ocean perfection like this one that Nyoman 'Blacky' caught at Bingin. Photo:
Tommy Schultz
Speed lining out the front at Pitstops. Photo:
John Barton
"Ahh why did I come in?!" Image:
Tozzi
Mauritania. The area around the Nouadhibou Peninsula is known as
the shipwreck capital of the world as it is littered with hundreds of rusting wrecks, which were driven ashore as part of insurance scams. This hulk sits in the middle of a great right point. Photo: John Seaton Callahan/surfEXPLORE
Bron Huesenstamm, Stoney Point. Lake Superior, Minnesota. Photo:
Joe Curren
Boys fishing, typhoon swell. Kenting, Taiwan. Photo:
Joe Curren
Here's my brother, Jamie, deep in a cold barrel at home in New Jersey. I enjoy how the wave seems to be bending away and has created a bubble around him. Take him out of the photo and chances are it would take a minute to figure out this is a photo inside a wave. Photo:
Trevor Moran
Inside out in Brazil. This is my favorite be achy in Brazil. It's a solid wedge, close to shore, and perfect for water shooting. Photo:
Adam Duffy
Words can't do this justice. Magical moment in Tahiti. Photo:
Seth de Roulet
Nazaré rears its heavy lip as it breaks top to bottom. Photo:
Rui Boino
Aerial view of a pass in French Polynesia. This is an example of a good set up. Shot from my motorized paraglider. Photo:
Ben Thouard.
"Tell me again how we are supposed to get out there?" - Classic New Jersey winter swell. Photo:
Robert Siliato
Frankie Harrer. East side, Oahu. Photo: Megan Villa
Bobby Okvist airing it out over a triple-overhead wave at Newport Beach's The Wedge. I'm incredibly honored that this image placed Top 50 Overall, and Top 5 in the Wings category, for the 2013 Red Bull Illume contest. Photo:
Ben Ginsberg
Winter surf here doesn't bode well for photographers. The light is weird... the water is a dirty chocolate brown.... But, the waves are pumping. The lack of green water sometimes requires black and white, but Florida charger Mark Dawson has relocated to the Outer Banks for the barrels, not the water color. Photo: Gallop
Grace, style and ease. Kassia Meador blowing minds. Ventura, January 2013. Photo:
Dylan Gordon
Colombian national freediving record holder Sofia Uribe Gomez charmed by a Caribbean reef shark. Photo:
Lia Barrett
I took the week off work to get this swell on the Gold Coast and scored! This is Kirra midweek and uncrowded. Photo:
Jack Dekort
Mid winter Iceland. Snow fall, only about four hours of light, a wind chill way below freezing and a field of Icebergs to get through before you can surf. Ian Battirck getting ready for a standard solo session. Photo: Tim Nunn
Belly flop drop-in. Photo: Pierce Anderson
Tunnel Vision - Kings Beach, Sunshine Coast. Photo: Kieran Tunbridge
Unridden perfection sometimes allows us to appreciate the beauty of the wave even more. Image:
Tozzi
South Africa, 2000. For my first six years of shooting in SA, I kept being told this shot was faked. It's not. Photo:
Greg Huglin.
Outrageous. Nathan Fletcher about to take a hell of a ride. Pipeline, December 2011. Photo:
Dylan Gordon
Silhouettes, this day brought a lot of images. Photo:
Steen Barnes
This is one of my favorites yet. Keiki beach break so big it's dwarfing everyone on the beach. I’d say twenty foot faces. Some Hawaiians would probably say ten though. Photo:
Doug Falter
Hard to believe this wave is just 15cm in height. The wind was howling offshore producing the ripple effect captured in the inside of the wave. With the reflection of the sun and sand, the colors were magnified. Photo:
Deb Morris.
Serenity amongst the devastation. Such is the case along the New Jersey Shore since Hurricane Sandy hit. For a brief moment, NJ surfers were able to forget about the devastation. Photo:
Robert Siliato
This is Brazilian hell-man Stephan Prado getting his share on a nice late season afternoon. Photo:
Jack Dekort
Unknown swimmer diving under the clouds at Makapu'u. Photo:
Gage Hingeley.
This wave has always intrigued me from a distance. A few months ago I finally made the trek down to it on first light to see what it was all about. Photo:
Ben Lee
Cloud 9 in Siargao might have been named after a marshmellow and chocolate candy bar, but there's nothing tasty about its new nickname 'Crowd 9'. When the rest of the island is sleeping off a few too many San Miguel's, you could be catching a Pacific sunrise (and uncrowded waves) like this guy heading out the pier at dawn. Photo:
Tommy Schultz
Locals coming in from a stormy fall surf. Tofino, British Columbia. Photo:
Alex Guiry
This rider was caught in narrow view tucking in, Warilla. Photo:
Dylan Robinson
Jason Breiholz and Nigel Haynes enjoying the view in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Photo:
Matt Beacham
"Go Surf Or Go Home" At the entrance of Ayampe, Ecuador. Photo:
Alex Guiry
