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You have to know how to read surf forecasts, be willing to get up at the crack of dawn when the glowing is just right, and stand on the sand or be smashed by beckons for hours.
But if you have a passion and expertise for taking surf photos, it could pay off.
The Surfing Heritage and Culture Center in San Clemente announced this week the launch of the 2020 Follow the Light Surf Photography Grant Program, a worldwide rivalry that is grateful to legendary photographer Larry “Flame” Moore while looking for the next up-and-coming surf photographer.
Moore was known for his near-obsessive adoration for quality and captivating moments in the irrigate, as well as helping to propel the careers of surfers along the Southern California coastline, most notably at Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point in the’ 70 s and’ 80 s.
Moore, who grew up in Whittier and moved to Belmont Shore with “his fathers” while attending Cal State Long Beach, first got a camera in his hands because of a debt owed by a friend who didn’t have the $100 to pay him.
Moore’s photography job began as he followed college friends during their surf times at locales such as Seal Beach, where Harbour Surf Shop founder Rich Harbour helped him build the first spray accommodate for his camera, so he could hit from the channel-surf, according to author Nick Carroll in the book “3 0 years of Flame: California’s acclaimed channel-surf photographer.”
He eventually endeavoured to Dana Point, receiving Salt Creek a excellent canvas, his tack-sharp personas catching the eye of photo editors at Surfing Magazine.
Salt Creek through the ’7 0s and ’8 0s became the epicentre of the Southern California channel-surf place , not far from where Surfing Magazine — which folded in 2017 — was published at the time.
Photographer Larry ” Flame ” Moore, shown here in 2005, changed the style surfers and non-surfers examined the play.( File photo by Daniel A. Anderson, Orange County Register/ SCNG)
It wasn’t time the hottest surfers being substantiated, but also the transfer terrain, as the coast became prepared in collaboration with multimillion-dollar the house and upscale resorts.
Moore was meticulous, with strong managerial abilities, traits that served him well after he became photo writer at Surfing Magazine, where he was a mentor to photographers who shared in his passion.
His images would define the epoch, capturing instants of surfers such as Kelly Slater and Tom Curran as they film to stardom.
Moore died in 2005, at 57, from brain cancer. A year later, the Follow the Light Foundation was created in his honor, to provide subsidies and recognition to rising channel-surf photographers.
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The grant apportions platform guided for about a decade. Its first winner was San Luis Obispo’s Chris Burkard , now a renowned outdoors photographer.
The contest was put on hiatus in 2015, until Moore’s wife, Candace, and sister, Celeste Maureaux, deeded the Follow the Light Foundation- along with Moore’s photo archives- to the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center.
Its improvement in 2019 make roughly 100 submissions from 12 countries, from photographers ages 16 to 25.
“It’s not easy to make a living as a surf photographer today, but it’s vitally important to our athletic and culture that it continues to be documented and celebrated through photography, ” said Shawn Parkin, photo journalist of The Surfer’s Journal, and former Follow the Light grant winner, in a information advertisement about this year’s contest. “It’s exciting to see Follow the Light continue as a stage for young photographers to showcase their work and be recognized for it.”
The winner gets a $ 5,000 gift and a chance to work some of the globe’s biggest channel-surf happens; last year’s apportion included a pay gig killing the Vans Triple Crown in Hawaii.
All finalists get at least $ 1,000 in grant funds.
Last year’s winner was Nick Green, from Tasmania, who said the rivalry succes facilitated him follow his channel-surf photography dreams.
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“I’ve had doorways open that I didn’t even know existed, and the support and encouragement I’ve gotten has drawn me even more committed to doing this thing that I adore, ” he said in a news announcement.
Submissions will be accepted April 1 through May 31, with the award ceremony Sept. 10 at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point.
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