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Slideshows
 Tuesday 21 February 2012.
The Banzai Pipeline went large and perfect for this year’s IBA Pipeline Pro. Wavescape presents our largest slideshow in a bid to portray the four days of madness that rocked the North Shore in the most awesome of ways. If a picture is worth a gazillion words, this is the Encyclopedia Britannica. And then some.
Monday 20 February 2012
We can´t complain about summer this year, but in J-Bay, lulls between swells have been long. There have been good forecasts, but the models were fickle, and swell direction was too West. Still, there were some mellow February vibes. Photos by Paul van Jaarsveld
 Monday 20 February 2012
It was all in the heat of the moment as Stevo, Robin Taylor and Spike shoot the "high" action at Ultimate X in Cape Town on Saturday. The amount of air, the level of skill, and the sheer mullet-headed tenacity of these athletes is mind-boggling.
 Monday 13 February 2012
The fat south swell this weekend was an epic fail, but deep in the Boland, it cooked. False Bay had waves, but never really got out of the stable, and many breaks were small and crowded. Stevo, not to be outdone by a myth, sniffed out solid surf deep in the heart of the Boland, with virtually no-one around.
 Friday 10 February 2012
Last Sunday saw temperatures in Cape Town skyrocket and the masses descend on beaches all over the Peninsula. Robin Taylor took a drive out to the other side of the bay to discover the surfing was as hot as the day.
 Friday 03 February 2012
It’s the weekend baby! It’s time for all the desk jockeys and cubicle slaves to slap on the sun block and hit the beach with a vengeance. Marcel Habets tests out the new Nikon rig on the other side of False Bay last weekend.
Monday 30 January 2012.
After weeks of waiting, Funso’s swell finally arrived in Durban on the weekend. With every old local dashing back to Surf City for the swell of the year, Funso was an anti-climax, but the waves were good. Dawn Rouse took time out from shooting the QE2 to capture the charnas charging New Pier.
 Tuesday 24 January 2012
Ian Thurtell took a swim at the Rolling Retro 2012 to document all the cool cats and hipsters pulling off moves that sum up the surfing eras in unusually warm water off Llandudno. See the story by Spike here and another slideshow by Brenton Geach here
Monday 23 January 2012
Brenton Geach captures the essence of a fine day on the beach at the Rolling Retro held in Llandudno on Saturday. From classic to modern, and everything inbetween, this slideshow has it all. See the story by Spike here
 Tuesday 17 January 2011
What do you get when you cross a helicopter and a Kommetjie surfer? Brendon Gibbens, that’s what. Simone Robb captures the action frame by frame as Brendon and friends turn their boards into rotor blades and fly away.
 Monday 16 January 2012
The whole summer holiday, the winds were wrong and the swell was on vacation. The first week of the new work year starts and guess what happens. It’s cooking bru! Ian Thurtell got stuck in his office to bring us the proof that Murphy is a cruel joker.
 Wednesday 11 January 2012
Yesterday was the last day of freedom for many, schools go back and the office cubicle is looming. Alan Robb made the most of the stunning Cape weather to capture the end of the holiday as it unfolded down at Long Beach.
 Monday 09 January 2012
As the New Year arrived so did an unseasonal North Wind. Those in the know capitalised on the wintery conditions and scored waves where there shouldn’t have been. Marcel Habets took the photos.
 Friday, 06 January 2012
2012 kicks off with the question of where is summer? Sure the beaches are packed with tourists and you can’t move at the malls without encountering a GP 4x4 but what has happened to the Cape Doctor? Ian Thurtell takes the first swim of the year at a wobbly beachbreak down south.
 Friday 16 December 2011
See the slideshow from last night's world premiere of Surfing and Sharks produced by Wavescape and screened to more than 250 people in two cinemas at the Labia Cinema in Cape Town last night. See the story here
 Wednesday 14 December 2011
Andrew Lange, or Roosta, is featured in not one but two films at this year's Wavescape Film Festival, namely The Africa Project and Surfing and Sharks. Ian Thurtell submitted these crystal shots of the surfer in the spotlight playing in his home away from home.
 Tuesday 13 December 2011
In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation. Justin Kluzner and friends score all of that and more in a recent session.
 Tuesday 13 December 2011
A full moon presided over Clifton 4th Beach on Friday as about 2,000 people gathered to watch an outdoor screening of the Wavescape Film Festival.
 Tuesday 13 December 2011
Bodyboarders, climbers and surfers packed the Bikini Bar at the Brass Bell and rocked to the gasp-inducing Free BASE antics of Dean Potter in Fly or Die, the chundering beauty of local bodyboard production Contrast, and new age surf mayhem in Year Zero (0000) - all showing at the Wavescape Film Festival. Photos by Pierre Marqua
 Friday 9 December 2011
All the images from the Wavescape Charity Auction last night. What an epic party, and kudos to the cool surfers and artistic peeps who pulled in. We raised R221,000 ... a record. Photos by Pierre Marqua
 Thursday 7 December 2011
Stunning art surfboards on show at the Field Office for the charity auction tonight. This is a sample of how they're looking. Zapiro is bringing his board with him to launch a surprise attack on the crowd. So is Conn Bertish. Wahoo. Photos by Spike
 Monday 5 December 2011
Can Cape Town water get any colder? Yes it can. Ian Thurtell tests his Antarctic skills to shoot Roosta and friends in crystal clear perfection at Llandudno this weekend.
Monday 5 December 2011
The flip flop fish presided as 200 people gathered for a beach cleanup to mark COP17 and the launch of the SEA Pledge programme. Part of the Volvo Ocean Race event in Mouille Point, Cape Town, was a 3-metre coelecanth painted by The One Love Studio. Photos by Spike.
 Tuesday 22 Movember 2011
The steely blue southeaster returns with its frigid weapon: the ice headache, as Ian Thurtell found out on a mission into the cold, crisp wavescapes of the Cape Peninsula deep in the south.
 Tuesday 22 November 2011
A motled collective of gnarled nautical detritus gathered in Kommetjie on the weekend for a surf contest with a difference, a big difference. Simone Robb was there to get some shots of the peculiarly dressed participants of the Kommetjie Showdown.
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