Pipe Dreams
Subject: Pipe Dreams
Photo: Joey Meddock
TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Short Story , Page 100
Let the record show that I have been corrected since this issue has released. This location is Rockpiles Lefts on North shore (or wide left sets at Off the Wall). So there…oops. I made a mistake. I apologize to the surf world.
I visited the Pipeline Masters a few years back while in Hawaii doing a wake shoot for Fox Racing. We we all itching to see the contest in person and to get a chance to spectate the event from the beach.
To this day, this image baffles me. What’s weird is that I don’t remember shooting it. You’d think that happens often with photography but surprisingly, you can remember almost every shot when you take it, review it, then ship and see it in print. It’s like it resurfaces three or four occasions separate from the actual time you press the button.
The water in this shot is packed with surfers. I wanted to get a shot of the waves with nobody in the water and somehow it worked out. I guess they were right behind the lip, on the beach, or in the white water. Who knows, the mystery of this image lives on in my memory bank full of photos…or is it memory bank half empty?
- Meddock
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