Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Russell Ord

Beneath an immense veil, Dino Adrian tracks the low seam of a cascading curtain. Western Oz

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Mickey Smith

Tom Lowe, Rileys. Middle of December, first light, freezing cold intimidating bombs, and a ridiculous, late mega-charge from deep into fresh ground for the Celts

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Digga

You can't soul-arch your wave through life. Every so often you have to bow down and go for the tube

- Gary Sahagen -
surfer, engineer, curator of the Huntington Beach Surf Museum

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Mickey Smith

Laird Hamilton at Teahupoo - an absolute classic from young Cornish photographer, Mickey Smith. Mickey 'half fish, half artist' used to shoot for one of the UK's many surf mags, but recently freed himself up so that we could all enjoy his crazy talent

Monday Morning Wave

World champion big wave surfers, Garrett McNamara and Kealii Mamala rode into surfing history last week when they towed into a monster tsunami created by Child's Glacier in South-Central Alaska.

Monday Morning Wave

Sliding a wave removes our brains out of the ordinary and slips us into the extra ordinary of being there now. No more worries about mortgages or strife of being poor or rich. When you enter the domain of an ocean cylinder, that moment, those split seconds belong to the Zen part of just being. Period

- Bill Hamilton -

Monday Morning Wave

There are three great elemental sounds in nature; the sound of wind, the sound of rain and the sound of the outer ocean breaking on a beach. I have heard them all and the sound of the ocean is the most dramatic, the most beautiful and varied

- John Witzig -

Monday Morning Wave

Going over the falls can be the funnest thing in surfing. When I'm out at big Pipe with Kelly and Ro, I just keep telling myself... "Self, you're having way more fun than those guys!"

- Chris Malloy -

Monday Morning Wave

It's just the best way to start your day. Surfers eat pizza. People who surf, they know the object is to have fun. You work hard, but you work hard to have fun

- Cynthia Derosier -

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Anthony Walsh

The sloping arc of a wave-face, a humid blanket of broken cloud, and the casual form of a rider on an ancient alaia surfboard, frame the star of the show at The Pass, Byron Bay, Australia.

Monday Morning Wave

Surf, Eat, Sleep...

- Dean Miller -

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Chris Klopf

Jason 'Ratboy' Collins salutes the sun with his own flash of brilliance. Photographer Chris Klopf says of this shot: Sundown sessions with five of your friends do still happen in northern California.

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: John Callahan

Swift as the wind, Steady as the mountain

- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War -

Sam Bleakley in peaceful warrior pose, somewhere in the western Sahara.

Monday Morning Wave

Surfing equates to living in the very moment of 'now'. When you ride a wave you leave behind all things important and unimportant, the purity of the moment is upon you

- Bill Hamilton -

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Ryan Craig

Hawaiian surf riders at play ... Early season south swell at Sandy Beach, Oahu. This wave started at a foot and progressively grew with the backwash. Pretty fun to watch the bodysurfing mayhem.

Monday Morning Wave

Surfing is not a sport, it is not a lifestyle; it's something you do in the ocean

- Paul Jensen -

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Destination 360

Surfing is Hawaii's gift to the world of sports

- Reverand Akaka, circa 1960, as recalled by 1968 World Champion Fred Hemmings, Jr -

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Chris Klopf

Office hours on a Hawaiian Outer island. Or is it church? Either way, show respect.

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Tom Carey

The perfect frame, the perfect framing - this must be the definitive window on the Samoan archipelago. Zahn Foxton confidently anticipates the upper reaches of a reeling half-pipe.

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Mickey Smith

Fergal Smith squares off against a heavy serving of Irish green, spaciously framed by the sudden slabby end of its Atlantic journey.