Josh Kerr, Blasting through the sunset, California

Sure, this is the second shot of Josh Kerr we’ve used in four days, but this moment is too good to waste. A bitter cold wall, the urgency of a setting sun behind it and Kerzy blasting through the early-evening air… there’s something exciting about moments like these. It almost takes you back to grommet-hood, staying out as late as you could until it was impossible to even make out lines of swell. Photog Damea Dorsey, who snapped this fine frame, says the session was pleasant surprise: “Kerzy, Ricky Whitlock, and I jumped on a PWC and went up the beach to find a wave to ourselves. It was cloudy, 3 foot and not a lick of wind. We came across this sick right that was producing like a machine on autopilot. Just before dark, the sun peeked above the horizon and lit up the clouds and the back of this wave. Kerzy spotted his section and lifted off. Boom!”