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Dusty Payne, frontside swing, Portugal

When Supertubos is too big, there’s always somewhere to retreat to. And with the amount of holding periods and lay days the Rip Curl Pro, Portugal recently had, the 34 and those who document them had plenty of time to explore those corners. And, get ‘em wired. “When everywhere else is 100 feet and windy this is one of the only places you can still satisfy your desires,” says Ryan Miller of the wave Dusty Payne’s surfing above. “Dusty and Julian (Wilson, who won the event) were the only two takers this day.”

Dusty eliminated Jordy Smith in round two of the event, but then met the unstoppable force (at that point of the event), Joel Parkinson, who Dusty was also rooming with. How better to shake off your loss than cutting loose in some wind slop?


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Ryan Miller

Ryan Miller, 33 years old, does not know how to write a bad email. Your pals at Stab have learnt to live vicariously through Miller’s red wine-fuelled letters from the road. His travels take him to some dreamy locales and, in those places, he scores all-time photos: “My favourite photo I’ve shot was of Benny Bourgeois in the Caribbean, with a fisheye. Often I just take photos, but rarely do I get to make one.” In an age of tail-highs and released fins, Ryan still most likes to shoot someone who can lay-down a big backside turn. Namely: Jordy Smith, Dane Reynolds, Gabe Kling, Kekoa Bacalso, Damien Hobgood and Peter Mendia. Like most photogs, Miller misses Scott Aichner’s work. But, as far as contemporary inspiration? “Trying to see things through my daughter’s eyes. It’s wild to think about someone experiencing something totally new on almost a daily basis when, as adults, we rarely get to experience something truly new.”

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