Tom Cozad / NewportSurfShots.com
While shooting the 2006 Mavericks Surf Contest I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Cozad, the man behind NewportSurfShots.com. I first saw him in September 2005 when I returned to the Wedge, a break I enjoyed as a teenager and in my early 20’s, to shoot some September swell that was happening. Tom was running up and down the beach, at the edge of the waterline, photographing the bodyboarders from the lowest angle he could get rather than from the angle atop the sand bluff where everyone else was at. He had his NewportSurfShots.com t-shirt on so that we all could dial in his website that night and check out his snaps. Smart. A few months later I noticed that he got some fine shots of a huge January swell that hit Todos Santos big time, these are seriously impressive images, you should check out his site and see for yourself. Not only is Tom a skilled surf photographer both in and out of the water, he is also a nice guy who just happened to grow up just on the other side of Newport Harbor from me, so we compared notes on the peninusula and high school friends we knew. If you are looking for photo coverage of Newport surf, Tom Cozad’s NewportSurfShots.com is the first site to check.
