As vast as the ocean is, so is the love for it, and from many different vantage points. This book captures wave riding at some of the most iconic surf locations around the world. 

Luke Gartside is a photographer, writer and also the editor of Wavelength Magazine, Europe's longest-running surf title. Luke has photographed the surf culture around the world for over a decade.

Surfing is about observing and understanding the movements of the ocean, and sensing the break of swells. In a way, you are bound to a beautiful, unpredictable aspect of nature.

So this book celebrates both the practice and the places of surfing. Incredible imagery of the world’s most unique, unusual, and most-loved surf destinations spanning from the northern lights in Iceland and to the Arctic tundra in Russia to iconic waves in California, including the monsters at Mavericks.