The party's over for storied North Shore icon. Who do you think the surfer is? The only certainty is who it is not. The Frenchman’s intoxicating picture of surfer getting pounded at Teahupo’o beat out a colorful squid, sea otter in school of fish, even more colorful squid, sea snake all tied up in knots, sea turtle being chill and silly crab.Įxamine all of the photographs here but most examine Thouard’s. Guts and an eye for art and a knowledge of surf and strong legs and strong arms and a stout heart.ĭaniel Russo, Jimmy “Cane” Wilson, Brent and Brian Bielmann, Peter Taras, Damea Dorsey, Ben Thouard, but to name a very few, have made their mark in the space with Thouard just winning the coveted Ocean Photographer of the Year award. But who, amongst us, hasn’t been influenced by their work from the earliest ages? The intimacy, the closeness that only brave man, or woman, bobbing in the brine, sometimes extremely heavy, with heavy camera and fins can bring. Those brave men and women who shoot images of our surfing from watery angles have always impressed me most.
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