Portfolio: Trevor Moran

This has become one of my favorite on-camera flash photos I've shot. Fill flash like this is super tricky to pull off and this one miraculously came together perfectly. The brown water, gold sun, blue to orange gradient, buildings, everything is just in perfect position and has such great juxtapositions. Photo: Trevor Moran

Rob Kelly at dawn in New Jersey. Rob's been a willing guinea pig for a lot of my photo experiments so whenever an idea starts to develop, I make sure to get him the credit he's due for being there from the start. Photo: Trevor Moran

New Jersey, post Hurricane Sandy. This area got so destroyed by Sandy it's incomprehensible to people who haven't seen it first hand. This was 3 months later and still debris is laying around from Day 1. The deck of this house was actually really broken apart and I was scared to even stand there for too long. I love this image because while it shows a small bit of devastation in the foreground, there is something to be happy about on the horizon. Photo: Trevor Moran

I don't normally like to shoot deer-in-headlight-style flash photos, but the clear water allowing you to see the reef below, and the mirror effect happening with the crazy colors deep in the tube makes me like this photo. It’s my brother Jamie at Uluwatu in Bali and having to swim back in and walk up that trail at dark means if you get anything decent, you use it. Photo: Trevor Moran

Craig Anderson’s fluid style makes shooting him so easy. He can use his tail like a paintbrush to whip water trails with perfect symmetry, which drives the photo composition. Photo: Trevor Moran

You can't argue against a photo when it just so happens to capture "The Decisive Moment." Luck? Skill? Who cares? Photo: Trevor Moran

Rarely do I shoot a photo where I don't know the rider and never figure out who he is, but that’s the case here. This was from New York during a hurricane chase up the East Coast a few years back. I'd been trying to capture the process of getting barreled in one frame for a while and, finally, I got one to come out how I wanted with nearly an x-ray effect where you see the rider sitting behind the curtain. The blurred light trails make it seem so speedy and gives the photo a painterly quality. Photo: Trevor Moran

This is Zack Humphreys at Teahupoo. Everyone knows this wave for its gaping blue tubes, but on smaller days, it has a completely different face. Instead of trying to fake the barrel shots, I decided to paddle a kayak through the lagoon and stand on the reef where the wave bends away. I like finding little surprises in photos sometimes and the little boat on the right horizon was just an added little bonus I discovered after looking at this photo for a bit back at the house. Photo: Trevor Moran

From my first trip to West Oz earlier this year. Julian was throwing some of the biggest airs I'd ever seen in person this trip and I was so glad when I downloaded my cards and everything came out how I'd planned. Photo: Trevor Moran

Checking the waves at a small underground cave in the Caribbean. This is a really magical place to hang out with an incredible view of the raw Atlantic. When the swell is big and from the right direction though it gets super scary when waves break perfectly into that hole then suck back out to sea. If you get sucked out with receding water, you're in serious trouble. Photo: Trevor Moran

Andrew Gesler again in New Jersey. This was not a tow-at though he did fly super far and stuck it. All the construction equipment was for post-Sandy beach replenishment. I tend to take advantage of every opportunity to juxtapose the organic fluidity of the ocean with the hard angles of man-made objects. Photo: Trevor Moran

I've been super fortunate to get to know the Hobgood brothers over the past year. With all their experience on tour, and with life in general, every day I spend with either CJ (pictured) or Damo, I learn something new. The cliché is "learn something new," but in reality, I learn probably closer to 20 things every single day. With all the curves in the coast, jetties and buildings, creating interesting compositions is a breeze compared to some other spots. Photo: Trevor Moran

Just one of the many waves in Bali that breaks right out front of some sort of amazing architectural piece. It’s refreshing to get to a place that essentially does all the work, where even just a bottom turn can make an amazing photo and no insane action is needed. Photo: Trevor Moran

Here's my brother, Jamie, deep in a cold barrel at home in New Jersey. I enjoy how the wave seems to be bending away and has created a bubble around him. Take him out of the photo and chances are it would take a minute to figure out this is a photo inside a wave. Photo: Trevor Moran

This winter was my first time posting up in Hawaii for the season as a photographer. While out there, I thought long and hard about the images I wanted to create and the stories I wanted to highlight. The culture clash between the surfing pilgrimage and the middle-America vacationers was an angle I took a lot of interest in. Here's Julian pulling into a set at Off The Wall and the people on the beach peering out as if they'd never seen surfing before. Photo: Trevor Moran

The majority of East Coast winter storms are met with Arctic winds swooping down from Canada as the storm pushes out to sea. The icy spray that whips off the back of those waves stings so much worse than any other place I've been. Sometimes missing a wave or sitting out the back can be more brutal than any wipeout that happens once you catch the wave. Photo: Trevor Moran

I don't claim to know Craig Anderson that well. We've only spoken two or three times, but every time we talked, he seemed to have a great perspective. Haters can hate on his style, but it’s hard to hate on someone who is just genuinely pumped on life. Check out his face while doing nothing on a waist-high wave. Pure bliss. Photo: Trevor Moran

After all the dreamy lineups of snow on the beach, or the novelty of seeing someone covered in rubber, often we overlook the harsh reality of surfing in cold environments. When your arms are dead tired from a long-freezing session, the last thing you want to do is fumble to get out of a thick suit with no clothes on. Having to stand on ice makes it worse. But as the towel reminds us, clocking these hours is what allows us to escape to tropical paradises in the not too distant future. Photo: Trevor Moran

When you see someone sprinting full speed towards the beach while wearing a 6-mil wetsuit at dawn, you'd be smart not to be too far behind them. Photo: Trevor Moran

During the majority of the year, the waves in New Jersey suck, and interesting compositions can be hard to come by. In order to keep shooting, we sometimes have to force it. This is Andrew Gesler doing a tow-at session between a series of summer thunderstorms. It's a bit of a testament to how we can still make eye-catching imagery even when the weather and waves are terrible. Photo: Trevor Moran