Pipeline’s earthquaking waves are like the Pied Piper’s flute for surf photographers. The bone-crushing sound of the raw ocean energy pounding the reef calls to all surf photogs to emerge from the tropical woodwork, plant t[...]
Joel Tudor has brought 32 of the best loggers in the world to the South China Sea where they will compete in the freewheeling ode to traditional longboarding contests, the Duct Tape Invitational. In a few hours, the hooter will sound a[...]
Welcome to "Liquid Portraits," a series that features photos of iconic surf breaks captured by the photographers who know them best. We ask every photographer in this series to showcase their most widely-recognized images and to dig o[...]
"At home, we're always having to adapt to mother nature, be it hurricanes or volcanoe[...]
“Getting there is half the fun,” or so the saying goes. Basque Countrymen[...]
“Frozen with fear” are probably not the words that come to mind when thin[...]
Iconic surf photographer LeRoy Grannis (1917-2011) lived the type of surf life that m[...]
“They were poor but they were also rich because they were surfers,” John Grannis says as he flips through the archive of John “Doc” Ball’s photos of the Los Angeles’ South Bay’s early surf sc[...]
The naturally surreal aesthetic of Ireland’s Cliffs of Moher make the landscape seem like the backdrop of a Tolkien novel. The emerald colored water and the dramatic cliffs that jut 700 ft above the sea are a blatant reminder tha[...]
Since surfers began putting it on rail, a lot of memorable cutbacks have been capture[...]
All photos by Ted Grambeau. In the early 2010s, images of Australia's Laurie Towner p[...]
Carissa Moore is gifted both in style and technicality on a surfboard, and was even f[...]
It’s a shame that video rental stores are virtually extinct, because among the [...]
If you were to hop in a time machine and travel to Santa Barbara in 1979, you'd find [...]
There are few surfers in the world who look cool just going down the line, but Michael February is one of them. You can study the placement of his knees or hands or every limb in between, but it probably won't get you anywhere—ac[...]
According to master lensman Jeff Divine, there’s a lot to juggle when shooting from the water at Sunset Beach. Keeping one eye fixated through a manually-focused lens on a surfer navigating a chunky North Shore wall while the oth[...]