Stab Singles: Australia’s North West Sends Its Regards

While we move closer and closer to a purely portrait world, thanks to social media and screens welded to the palms of your hands, widescreen will forever remain the pinnacle of cinematic experience.

However, while a 19.5:9 ratio gives an attention deficit influencer more feed real estate, for surfing and anyone generally attempting to bottle mother nature into pixel form, landscape still trumps.

Take the above thirty second package from Tom Jennings. While cropping in for a more balanced ratio on mobile may enhance the clarity of Phil Read’s figure as it weaves down the Tombstones line, the clip’s mojo begins to dwindle the more gorgeous beach scenery one trims. Eventually it becomes just another land shot of a man standing in a heaving tube.

So, if you’re viewing this #stabsingles clip via desktop, or, you’ve spun your phone around, good on you. Long live landscape in surfing.

On a side note, ain’t this part of the world pretty? Shame if it were to be overrun by marquees, cameras, and people wearing jerseys. More on that to come…