![]() The Eddie forges champions: Kelly Slater, John John Florence, and Bruce Irons have all won in the past. To be invited to ride them means being one of the 40 most-esteemed surfers in the world, as chosen by a committee of your peers. But the waves produced during the Eddie are perhaps the most sacred on earth. Then he hopped out and took off running for Waimea.Įven on an ordinary day, surfing is imbued with the mystical, every wave hinging on chance and elemental collision-a storm in Japan will create a swell thousands of miles away in Hawaii. He kissed Natalia and told her to take the wheel. His family was with him, so Luke made a split-second decision. But no matter how much they hustled, rent always seemed to be due, groceries got pricier, the gas tank needed filling, and the medical bills piled up. His girlfriend, Natalia, was already working three gigs. He was 27 years old, with two small children. According to Huglin, who's talked to dolphin researchers for his film, it is possible that the dolphins take to the surf for pure enjoyment.And Luke needed his good, stable job. Huglin's photos capture these creatures in the wild, seemingly enjoying leaping through the waves. The photographer has also boated out to a pod, only to find the dolphins "sleeping." According to Huglin, dolphins - like human surfers - would also miss a wave. To get the best shots, he would also swim nearby or underneath them, fly in helicopters to hover over them or photograph them from the shore.Įven with all the preparation undertaken to capture the perfect shots, however, Huglin was not always successful. More than a few times, he ran into bad weather, had equipment failures and chartered boats and returned empty-handed, he told the Santa Barbara News-Press. ![]() He procured a special permit and hired power catamarans to take him to where the pods of dolphins are located. I wanted the viewer to forget about being a spectator and just be one of the dolphins."įor six years, beginning in 2003, Huglin traveled to South Africa to photograph schools of dolphins up to 300 or 400. I wanted to film them riding waves from underwater and eventually I did get those shots. "I wanted to get in there with the wild ones and see how close I could get. "It all looked posed and somehow less than real," he told DEEP Surf Magazine. Huglin said he was also tired of seeing images of captive dolphins in tanks or in the aquarium-clear waters of the Bahamas. I'd had many experiences of riding waves while dolphins were in the area but never while I was on the wave with them." Seeing something amazing and actually capturing it on film are a long ways apart. "I see dolphins every day and everyone I know has a dolphin surfing story. "I grew up and still live with my wife and kids at Miramar Beach in Santa Barbara," Huglin said in an interview with DEEP Surf Magazine. Monster 25-foot waves can scare even the most experienced surfers, but the dolphins in these stunning images by Greg Huglin, taken off the coast of South Africa, glide and leap through the waves with the greatest of ease, as if performing a graceful dance.Ĭalifornia-based photographer and filmmaker Huglin, who has also released the 20-minute film "Surfing Dolphins," has long been fascinated by dolphins in the wild.
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