Tim Bonython has spent a lot of time with his camera pointed at huge waves. He’s done it all over the world, from Tahiti to Portugal and Australia, and over the years he’s fallen a little more in love with a few of those places than others. Nazaré is one of those places.
“I’ve spent a lot of time shooting Nazaré,” he wrote, “and now I’m in the water shooting off a JetSki including that definitive unique water angle.”
Surfing, of course, is a lot more than just riding a wave. It’s the duck diving, the paddling, and all that in between stuff. But when we watch an edit, that other stuff is almost never involved. Nazaré is most famous for its tow waves — you gotta do what you gotta do when the waves hit a certain size — but people paddle there, too. So Bonython decided to put together a three-part series featuring those paddle waves. This is part one.
See the rest of the series, along with more from Bonython, on YouTube.
