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All Roads Lead West
British architectural historian Reyner Banham loved Los Angeles because it was a city that broke all the rules and made…
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48 Hours on Shifting Sand
THE ISLAND There are a few things to know about Barbuda. It sits out on the northeast corner of the…
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Flesh, Blood & Slabs
August 13, 2021. Dusk falls and a massive “event swell” set rears from the deep at Teahupo‘o. After spending close…
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Lightness of Manner
Spring, and the air is filled with promise. The ferry docks to an island bathed in twilight, a precursor to…
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The First Cut Is the Deepest
Surfers d’un certain âge may recall falling under the spell of what seemed like Aussie magic in the late 70s…
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Sucker Free on the Ruta Del Sol
Two kinds of people travel for beachbreak: big-wave surfers and the crowd-averse. If you’re not the air-vest and double-leash-plug sort…
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The Big Man
Of course I knew who Rusty was. Everybody did. He was the formidable goofyfoot from La Jolla Shores who looked…
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Solving For X
December 2021 Just minutes from touching down at our destination, a mysterious patch of land in the Bering Sea known…
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The Gold Brickers
“What does a ski bum do in summer? LIFE Photographer Loomis Dean, who last winter [1949] documented the gold-bricking existence…
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Whole Food and Terpenes
The sun hadn’t yet climbed over the verdant hills of the Rancho Corral de Tierra preserve when Robert Glover pulled…
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“Let It Breathe, Love…”
While it seems most mainstream profes- sional-sports photographers shoot their subject with the detachment of an analyst, Ryan Miller is…
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Pretty to Think So
In the hamlet of Urdaneta, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain, a switchback trail runs behind a tiny stone-walled…