SOLO MYSTERY SLIDELocation: Rincon CoveYear: 2022 What gives this image its subtly mysterious tone isn't the unusual angle, or the mist from a rare Rincon fog bank obscuring the horizon, but the fact that for some inexplicable reason this impetuous solo surfer has decided to ride her wave backward.

Surfer: Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew

his equipment

A blurry tribute to Ernst Haas

Championship

“Rabbit”

Surfer: Devon HowardLocation: Rincon PointYear: 2022

Or all of the above

While developing my own approach to shooting action

Surfer: Tommy Curren

Long before aerial drone photography

And when you find it

yet with his soon-to-be legendary style