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Travis Potter, truck-driving in Indonesia

On sunday afternoon, Travis Potter cast a line into the ocean, kicked back and swilled a fistful of beer with some pals on a boat. The Indonesian sun was smiling and the mood was right.

Some time later, Travis and his pals motored over to a known reef. The swell had started to pulse and the tide had trickled into the perfect height. He grabbed his board – a 7’10″ – and stroked into this, his first wave of the session, driving through the truck in perfect grit stance. “I don’t think anyone has ridden this wave backside as good as Travis has,” said Nate Lawrence who, after stints in Oz and NZ, arrived back in Indo just in time to capture this session. “He’s a legend.” Stab agrees!


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Nate Lawrence

Nathan Lawrence, 29, surfs with more power than a lot of the pros he shoots. Don’t let him tell you otherwise – Stab spies have seen firsthand. He throws stones, we tells ya, the kind that break bones! Nate’s tough – he loves shooting in Canada, out in the cold, with the bears. In fact, Nate’s favourite-ever photo is an empty barrel shot that he took. But, he does enjoy shooting surfers, and one of his favourites is based on personality. “I really like shooting with Chippa (Chris Wilson). Mostly because he’s such a great human.” So, what makes good photography to Nate? Perhaps not a certain image, but more everything else that comes with it: “Being able to be in the right spot at the right time and capture that split second of raw, unfiltered emotion.”

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