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Surf Splendor

063 – Todd Glaser: The Art & Business of Surf Photography

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2014

⏱️ 92 minutes

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In today’s episode of Surf Splendor, photographer Todd Glaser tells about his path from humble beginnings to traveling the world with Kelly Slater on behalf of Surfer Magazine. Todd also share his thoughts on the art and business of surf photography, the modern media landscape, and of course we chat about the world title race … Continue reading "063 – Todd Glaser: The Art & Business of Surf Photography" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

to want to work with them again and not every not every photo is going to be a grand slam

0:13.3

yeah home run you know there's there's plenty of failures in in photography my work included

0:19.8

there's plenty of times when I've missed a great

0:21.4

photo because of that. But you have to think, okay, well, just for example, I was in Portugal

0:26.2

and I missed a 720. I was swimming in the water with a fish eye. And I totally missed that wave.

0:34.0

You were in the water, though, with Kelly. With Kelly, yeah. We were just weren't in the right

0:37.4

spot. We were at the beach, and it was pouring down rain it was howling offshore like 30 miles an hour

0:42.4

offshore and we sat there and watched it for two hours and we were humming and honed about whether to

0:47.2

go out or not we're like should we go out should we not go out not too sure we watch it for like two hours finally I was like I'm like hey I'm like let's just

0:54.6

go out we'll go get a couple waves and we'll go get lunch I'm like the pow out was really

0:57.9

bad that day I'm like let's just go pal out I'll make lunch taste better all right and I was

1:03.1

thinking it was howling offshore I'm like there's no way we're going to do an air on this day

1:06.5

like it's going to be a tube day set Set up a fish eye camera, swam out.

1:13.3

First wave, he gets tubed on the left, comes out.

1:17.9

Pals back out, sitting out there, and the wind went from offshore to side shore.

1:24.1

And that's when he got that wave, did the big double rotation, the 540 or the 720, which, however you want to call it.

1:26.6

Pows back out.

1:28.7

I'm just like, oh, man, here we go.

1:30.3

You saw it.

1:31.2

I saw the whole thing.

1:37.7

And the wind went back offshore, which is not good for airs.

1:39.4

And we're like, what are the odds?

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