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Many popular surfing destinations, such as Hawaii, California, Florida, Chile, Ireland, Australia and Costa Rica, have surf schools and surf camps that offer lessons. Surf camps for beginners and intermediates are multi-day lessons that focus on surfing fundamentals. They are designed to take new surfers and help them become proficient riders. All-inclusive surf camps offer overnight accommodations, meals, lessons and surfboards. Most surf lessons begin by instructors pushing students into waves on longboards. The longboard is considered the ideal surfboard for learning, due to the fact it has more paddling speed and stability than shorter boards. Funboards are also a popular shape for beginners as they combine the volume and stability of the longboard with the manageable size of a smaller surfboard.
Here I showcase you 20 of the most splendid and Thrilling examples of Surfing photography.
Breaker
Bell’s Beach, Australia, has just experienced the biggest surf for many months. Taken at 7am just on sunrise. Image is as shot with levels adjustment and slight colour correction to ‘cool’ it down a bit.
© Heather Hartkamp
Ocean Spray
Local surfer at Sebastian Inlet taking advantage of the big surf created by Hurricane Noel.
© Manny Larioza
Dawn Surfer
Slow shutter panning photo of a surfer.
© David Orias
Red on Green
Panning slow shutter speed photograph of a local surfer at Rincon.
© David Orias
The Surfer
The Surfer in the picture was there 13 seconds during image exposure almost without moving, looking for a wave, while tide was rising up.
© Iñigo Barandiaran
Taking Flight
Andy Irons launches off the wave during the 2005 Pipeline Masters contest on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.
© David Orias
Wipe Out
A surfer comes to grief at a popular surf beach in Australia.
© John Robb
Radical Surfing
A young kid or “grom” as we call them in the surfing world, doing a radical move on a wave in Hawaii.
© David Orias
Off the Lip
This is a three shot sequence that I made a composite of.
© Manny Larioza
Adrenaline rush
© Natasha Bencic
Backlit Green Curtain
© David Orias
Fuku
© Shazeen Samad
Off The Lip
© David Orias
Surfer Silhouette
© David Orias
Agony of Defeat
© David Orias
Surfer Silhouette
© David Orias
Re-entry
© Ross Hamamura