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Bali - Indonesia - June 2025
It had been a while since I picked up the camera to shoot anything surf related just for fun. My wife recently bought me a surfboard, and now I am learning how to surf at 32 years old, which weirdly made me kinda psyched to shoot it. Maybe because of remembering how hard it is. When you have spent a lot of time shooting some of the worlds best, you start to think it would be easy. Sitting wide of the river mouth in Canggu trying to catch one from underneath the crowd (and failing to do so) for an hour and watching the same groms getting every wave, made me appreciate the act of surfing a little more. I linked up with old friends Rolando Montes and Lee Wilson and then we were joined by Brad Flora and Italian supergrom Ale Dotti. We had a fun few days and I decided to give these images a little more love than just rotting on my harddrives.
Came for the tubes but stayed for the ramps. Rolo - Bali’s eastcoast
Rolo scooping
Brad threw up ten minutes after this wave.
This guy paddled out with a ciggie in his mouth, and then got tubed, and proceeded to do a run around and lit up another on the way.
In case you didn’t believe me…
Brad
Rolo Tweaking
Lee knifing through a west coast beachie. He reckons this was his first proper tube after snapping his leg in half two years ago.
Rolo
Bali’s blacksand studio
The one that got away
Ale Dotti taking the elavator down.
Rolo & Ale - Shot on a borrowed medium format point and shoot
Brad
Ale
Lee at maxing sandbar
Good times!
Joey