Clark Little The Beauty Of Waves Through The Eyes Of Clark Little Trenton Johnson - 17 May 2014 Introduction Imagine one day you decided to go buy a camera with a waterproof housing and threw yourself into a huge wave breaking on the shore just to get a photo. You had no intention of becoming a photographer but you are now taking photos from inside waves as a living now. Well that’s the life of Clark Little and thats how he got into it. He spends countless hours in the surf just to get the best shots to share with the world. It all started on one day when he went and bought a waterproof camera The Shorebreak Rider In the year 1968 Clark little was born in Napa, California. At the age of two his family made a move to the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. This move was the first step towards Clark’s life in the surf. Clark’s older brother Brock Little was always the star being one of the most famous big wave surfers but in the 80’s and 90’s Clark made a name for himself. One day while sitting with the lifeguards at the lifeguard tower at Waimea Bay Clark told the lifeguard that he would be able to take the drop of the shore break and pull into the barrel. They said “No way!”, so to prove them wrong Clark paddled out and dropped into a monster wave. He pulled into the barrel like he said and of course got obliterated. He didn’t care that he got smashed because he knew in the shore break almost every ride ended in a wipeout, he says it just felt so good to make the drop and ride in the wave as long as he could. Once he knew riding the shore break was possible it became his regular surf spot. He got some sponsors that gave him surfboards which was good because he broke so many and some photos of him ended up on the internet. He had countl... ... middle of paper ... ...d with photographers. Little kids with GoPros! And they’re good! So I’ve started to look for new waves to shoot” is a quote from Clark’s new book Shorebreak. And it’s true, everyone is doing it now and some are coming away with really good shots. If it was for Clark Little no one would be doing it. Not only is he inspiring the world, he is inspiring himself everyday to keep taking these photos and have fun doing so. That is why Clark Little is the best at taking photos of the shorebreak. “When it’s good, I won’t get out of the water until my memory card fills up or my battery dies. I’ll jump in the water at 7am and come out at 1pm, shrivelled. My legs will be buckling when I walk up the beach. Then I go home and look at the at the pictures and I get inspired again—psyched to go back and do it the next day. It’s self-perpetuating. It’s an addiction.” - Clark Little
In particular, this is shown when Frank Hurley encounters Macquarie Island and is thus confronted with the power of nature. This leads to his passion for both travelling and photography. Initially, the modern colour images of Macquarie Island are juxtaposed with the black-and-white footage of the ship and with earlier footage of the city. This causes it to feel vibrant in comparison, mirroring Hurley's own sense of wonder, also evident in words from his diary. This tone carries over into the next part of the story (Antarctica), where it is subverted by the freezing conditions. Combining colour footage with Hurley's photographs shows the viewer how discovery impacted his work, also done in the rest of the documentary. However, here, the comparison between them demonstrates the technical limitations Hurley was under and the difficulties in capturing reality. This is addressed later when it is his justification for forgery. The use of footage from 50 years later, when Hurley is describing the incident, shows the lasting impact of the expedition. It also prepares the viewer for the rest of the story, which continues through these years. As such, this part references many aspects shown later in the documentary. Simultaneously, both the viewer and Hurley are introduced to his passion for travelling. This is fitting, as the experience acted
Nasht’s depiction of Frank Hurley’s journey into Antarctica raises the importance of discovering new ideas and values which shape his journey as an “odyssey”, a classical allusion to Homer’s epic poem, His journey of discovery challenges many assumptions and questions Hurley’s society had sought represented by epic film music and indirect interviews to portray the feeling of excitement and adventure, portraying an assumption that discovery can lead to new experiences and new worlds. Nasht’s juxtaposition of Hurley’s dramatic archival footage to the modern recreation of the journey evokes a sense of excitement and a change in beliefs, where previously people didn’t know what adventure felt like. Images of large and grand icebergs signify a new sense of discovery in an uncharted world which becomes important to those on the ship, Endurance knowing that they are risking their lives to experience the nature of the world that no one has even sought and being the first to answer the challengers of discovering and exploring new worlds and experiences. The clever synthesis from shifts of Elephant Island to Hurley’s daughters provokes a sense of discovering something personal, as “the places he explored left a mark on him and his photography”, where Hurley’s daughters rediscover their father’s experiences. The daughters are overwhelmed by the desolation of the ice and space, which becomes significant for them, as they relive the memories and the experience of their father when he journeyed to
John Fielder is a nationally famous photographer. For the last 40 years his photos are taken of Colorado while he is hiking and skiing. When he first visited Colorado at the age of 14 he said he felt like something or someone guided him their and he belonged in Colorado for the rest of his life. He is well known for creating his best selling books ever; Colorado 1870-2000. His latest work is the work of great outdoors Colorado for its 20th anniversary. When he was 23 he decided to start doing photography. He was amazed by other famous photographers work and tried to take photos just like them, but it didn’t really turn out how he wanted. Nevertheless he did not give up. On his days off he would go on hikes and he would take photos. He practiced for 8 years and decided to quit his job and just focus on photography. He loves nature so therefore he loves to take photos or nature. He has published 33 books in the past 30 years. He uses photography with a large format 4 x 5 film camera, he also carries 7 lenses and 30 sheet film holders and about 400 sheets of color film. In the winter he usually country skies around the mountains of Colorado. He skies 5 to 9 miles a day to get to hut to hut. In the summer he goes on river trips and usually river rafts. Sometimes he rafts on class 5 rapids. He has two daughters who love to go on trips with him although they do not take photos themselves.
Manifested in the mind of the 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson came the first American expedition to head west towards the Missouri River all the way to the Pacific Ocean, in the year 1804. The Lewis and Clark Expedition formed just one year after the Louisiana Purchase, the purchase of territory from imperial France in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson. 1 The Louisiana Purchase provoked President Jefferson to look to navigate the territory that his empire now encompassed, and out of this grew the expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and Lewis Clark. 2 Lewis and Clark and their unit of volunteers from the United States Army specially selected by Thomas Jefferson that accompanied them soon became known as the Corps of Discovery, a group of men destined to “compile what amounted to the first chapters in an American encyclopedia of Native American peoples and cultures”. 3
“Deep Sea Drifters II” didn’t stand out because it wasn’t a photograph but because the style of art seemed like something like a nine-year-old’s crayon work. Of course, when I looked closer, the piece...
To be named one of the top photographers of the 20th Century is a substantial credit on its own, but to do so with no formal training or background in the art is remarkable, yet accomplished by Philippe Halsman. It all started at the young age of fifteen, when Philippe would photograph friends and family with his father’s 9x12-cm view camera, developing the glass plate “miracles” in the family’s bathroom sink. Even in these early years, using rudimentary equipment, it was evident Halsman had a gift and would leave a definitive mark on the photographic industry. With his ability to capture the true spirit of the subject and his advanced technical abilities, his career was destined to be nothing short of successful (B. Johnson 180).
20 year- old Madison Stewart, many know her as shark girl, is an underwater filmmaker and a dive master. The young Aussie grew up living on a yacht from just two years old, she has spent nearly every day of her life in the water. When she first started snorkeling, one thing grabbed her eye and that was seeing sharks in the wild, She instantly feel in love with the animal and decided to have a future being around sharks every day of her life. When she was young she didn’t once think that she would have to fight for sharks and their lives. When she returned to the Great Barrier Reef at the age on 14 years old, she had expectation’s such as seeing the same beautiful reefs and the same sharks, but what she saw and discovered changed her life forever.
During the 1950’s when skateboarding first got it’s legs it was a very popular activity to take part in during vacations to ocean side tourist attractions, or as an activity after surfing. Yet, by 1965, skateboarding had diminished in popularity completely, therefore almost every skateboard manufacturer went out of business. . During this time the only people who even wanted to skateboard were surfers who needed something to ride to practice their surfing while the waves were flat. Due to the fact that there were no skateboards being made or sold, those who wanted to skate had to take it upon them-selves to manufacture their own boards. Using any kind of scrap they could find to build a usable board out of, such as metal scrap pieces or old planks. These determined surfers had to unscrew the trucks and wheels off of roller skates and attach them to the bottom of their boards. And because these kids were from very poor families for the most part, and next to non had jobs of their own, they had to resort to taking the trucks and wheels off the roller skates secretly in the stores. Although.., the clay wheels th...
Mamie Phipps Clark Although Mamie Phipps Clark is not a common name in discussions of scientific and academic achievement, she remains a very influential psychologist over the course of history. Her work contributed to the disestablishment of school segregation and increased awareness in racial bias in children. She was well educated, despite all the barriers against her. And she was a loving mother, husband, and friend to those who knew her.
Ever since he was a little kid, Rex Scruggs has had only one ambition. Win the respect and approval and, heck, maybe even the love, of his difficult grandfather. It isn’t easy to be the grandson of Malcolm Scruggs whose house is filled with trophies and medals from his years as an international-level kayaker, and whose kayaking exploits on the rivers of the Columbian Andes decades earlier earned him a write-up in National Geographic magazine. Now seventeen, Rex, who has inherited from Gramps his fiercely competitive nature, is determined to travel to Columbia and kayak The Furiosos, the river that his grandfather never finished. He is determined to be the first to kayak it from top to bottom, and claim its first descent.
“I had been born into a raging ocean where I swam relentlessly, flailing my arms in hope of rescue, of reaching a shoreline I never sighted. Never solid ground beneath me, never a resting place. I had lived with only the desperate hope to stay afloat; that and nothing more. But when at last I wrote my first words in the page, I felt an island rising beneath my feet like the back of a whale”.
There is a guy from Hawaii that I know. Every day, he wakes up, straps his surfboards to the racks on top of his car, drives his car from a town called Ewa, across the island of Oahu, to a little beach known as Ala Moana Beach Park. He does all of this even before the sun comes up. He spends a few minutes just looking at the ocean, watching and surveying the waves and how they break. As soon as the sun makes its first peek over the horizon, he grabs a board, waxes it up, and jumps in the water. He then paddles his board through what many people call a journey: two hundred yards of dark cold water, blistering currents, and waves pushing back against each stroke made to push forward. He makes this journey to get to a point right past where all the waves break, to a point called the line-up. It’s here, where he waits for a wave that he catches back towards the shore, only to make the journey back through all the cold harsh currents and waves again. He catches a few waves, and then catches one all the way back to shore, where he showers, gets dressed and then goes off to work.
Time has a way of exposing frauds, and such was the case with these deceitful photographers. Over the decades, genuine researchers and photographers sprung up. Because of the beginnings of their profession, they came under much scrutiny and still do to this day. But in the current
When I was 5 years old, Dad woke me up one morning and informed me that he was finally going to teach me how to surf. I was ecstatic. I used to watch my brothers in envy as I crouched on the damp sand with my head between my hands resting on my knees, sulking at the fact that I wasn’t allowed to surf until I was 5.