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Left: This wave is a special wave. We were taken there by Captain Albert Taylor on this trip, twice. Both times we scored and Mick’s surfing was on another level. It was pretty solid and coming out of deep water and had these backdoor sections and and and… well I could dribble on for ages about this wave, but as you can see it was pretty damn good. Right: I was asked by Surfing World to shoot a portrait of Mick for a feature they where doing on him about be a threat for the world title that year. The brief was for him to be serious. I was on the Gold Coast shooting for Joel Parkinson's book "PARKO + FRIENDS" so I called him up and teed up a time to shoot at his house as the weather was horrendous. I used an old strobe I hadn’t used for quite a while and was really happy with the quality of light it was giving, and I know how much Mick can hate sitting for the camera, so I banged off a handful of shots and let him go. I am happy with the results nonetheless and as it happened the feature title drew heavily on the image style. 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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