I wanted a perspective that I could only get by rigging a camera on the front of a surfboard. I was looking for an intimate, tight shot of longboard legend Robert (Wingut) Weaver in the moment of hanging 5. It would have been very difficult, if not impossible to get the same shot with a regular camera housing shooting from the water. Only with a camera the size of a GoPro on an outrigger, this could have been possible. What I didn’t know at the time of taking the shots, was that Outside would be running the image as the opener of the article and as a double spread. We did some tests and we felt the image had enough resolution and sharpness to hold a full double page spread so they moved forward and printed the piece. When I held a printed magazine to my hand I was amazed by how good it looked.
