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Surf Splendor

162 – Todd Glaser: Proximity

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode surf photographer Todd Glaser discusses his new project Proximity. Todd gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the 3 year production process, stories from the road with Kelly, John John, Dorian, Albee, Stephanie and Dave Rastovich. Then Todd recalls details from his most secret mission, documenting and releasing Kelly Slater’s wave pool in … Continue reading "162 – Todd Glaser: Proximity" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's

0:03.0

Home Run, you know, there's plenty of failures in photography. My work included's there's plenty of failures

0:20.9

in photography

0:22.3

my work included there's plenty of times when I've missed

0:24.7

a great photo because of that but you have

0:26.7

to think okay well just

0:28.8

for example I was in Portugal and I missed the 720

0:30.8

I was swimming in the water with a fish eye

0:33.4

and I totally missed

0:36.6

that wave.

0:37.7

You were in the water, though, with Kelly.

0:39.2

With Kelly, yeah.

0:40.1

Right. Just weren't in the right spot.

0:41.4

We were at the beach, and it was pouring down rain.

0:44.3

It was howling offshore, like 30 miles an hour offshore.

0:47.3

And we sat there and watched it for two hours, and we were humming and honing about whether to go out or not.

0:51.8

We're like, should we go out?

0:52.7

Should we not go out?

0:53.5

Not too sure.

0:55.3

We watch it for like two hours.

0:58.6

Finally, I was like, I'm like, hey, I'm like, let's just go out.

1:00.4

We'll go get a couple waves, and we'll go get lunch.

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