And what an excellent job the book people have done on it. A proper coffee table book no less. The picture and color quality on the 300gsm Fuji Album Lustre paper is the bomb. I also had lay flat binding for showing double page spreads to best effect..stunning!

Click thumbnails for full images of the book cover.

 

Weighing in at 82 pages long (it was a job deciding what images to put in and what to leave out!) ‘A back section looming’ is a collection of my favorite pictures taken while on a surf trip to Morocco.

There is also a handful of illustrations inspired by the trip that are full double page spreads. I included also a couple of small features based on our experiences at Anchor Point in Taghazout. They are made up of ‘The Anchor Dogs’..’Storm clouds they gather’ and ‘Strange scrawls on the walls of Taghazout which I have already published in an earlier post here.

The majority of the photography was taken at various surf breaks around the legendary Anchor Point. Mysteries, Hash Point, Tamri and Panoramas are all featured in one way or another, either as pure wave shots or involving surfers or surf watchers. I look back at the pictures now and remember that everyday was different to the next as regards to wave and water color (and most times wave size.) The images in the book are a mixture of pin sharp and grainy , saturated and desaturated..lots of flavors, a bit like the waves then.

I guess the book is really a celebration of the power and beauty of waves, your not going to find any cliche holiday pictures of the boys ‘having it’ large. A small explanation can be found on page one for the title of the book, rather than me repeat it here. The images that make up the book gallery are a mixture of original images and scans from the book itself (a long story and something you should take up with one of my flash memory cards.) So I apologize now for any poor image  & color quality. On the whole the scans are not too bad but nothing like the quality of the originals or the book reproduction.

If you click on the first Thumbnail (top left) after these 3 pictures it will take you to page one. To navigate forward or back through the pages just move your cursor to either the middle far left or right of the image. click the arrow..easy.. Enjoy!