Typically, the view you see of Tahiti’s Teahupoo is from surfer’s left of the wave, looking down the barrel to get the full impact of the heaving slab that passes for a lip, but this shot of Andy Irons was taken in the hottest part of the battle zone, just a few feet above the piranha-sharp reef. It’s available as a wallpaper at billabong.com.
*Daily not guaranteed. Might not be a photo, either. Hey, you get what you pay for.
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He looks calm in that monster.
looks like an Aichner photo… The king of surf photography. But he retired, I think…