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Many years ago, I had the opportunity to work with Insight on this installation advertising campaign with the infamous and very talented Christian Fletcher. This photo was purely for visual effect, and at no point was this to be landed... although Christian did try to land this flip. The result was him tearing the shorts right off him. The photo is cool and will always be fun to look at. Photo: Nate Smith
Editor’s Note: We’ve chosen to focus our relaunch around the theme: EVOLVE. Transformation is core to who we are, and we put it out to The Inertia’s influencers and most talented contributors to share moments that caused significant personal growth and transformation – ideally with some relation to surfing, but also to life in general. These are Nate Smith’s moments.
I can recall when I was really young always being mesmerized by what my mates where doing on a wave as I’d paddle back out – sitting and watching them blow the tail or get barreled. I thought those would make amazing photos. So there was my solution for the next few months. Fifteen odd years later, and I’m still doing it. Funny, yet cool, how things work out.
See more from Nate at NateSmithPhoto.com