Behind the photographs

REAL WAVES. REAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

The example photographs show Kelly Slater. Images have been resized, compressed and cropped for the layout. The Creative Commons action photographs retain their source licences.

• Escaping the jaws of a Banzai Pipeline wave — Fosterand sons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hero, example match and favourite photograph.
• Kelly Slater beach portrait — image credited to Breitling, via GQ. Cropped for the example face reference. All rights reserved.
• Kelly Slater at Huntington Beach — Pedro Szekely, CC BY-SA 2.0. Example match.
• Kelly Slater at Trestles — Sachi Gahan, CC BY-SA 2.0. Example match.

These images illustrate the experience; they are not an actual customer search or an endorsement by the photographers or surfer pictured. The face reference is a portrait, not a selfie. The action photographs were taken at different sessions in Hawaii and California.