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I am pretty sure this was Mick’s first wave against Bede Durbidge in the final of the Snapper Event. Behind the rock had been going crazy all afternoon and Mick was on fire. He had an earlier heat or semi, with Josh Kerr that was simply amazing, and his run was never going to be cut short. The ledge he needed to get over on this thing as you can see had a step in it and it was all he could do to stomp on his back foot until he could get his rail in at the bottom and drive into the throaty little beast. Mick's ability to succeed under pressure is second to none and it’s situations like these that really make that visible. Photo: Andrew "Shorty" Buckley
The selection of images above are some of my personal favorite photos I have taken of Mick Fanning over the years. I have freelanced for Rip Curl for over 20 years now, shooting both stills and motion, and have shot Mick a number of times because of this. The edit that below was shot on Red Epic and a Phantom Flex and was shot on a recent campaign shoot for the MF1 range.
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