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IAN Mcroman

The Eye of an Photographer.

The world´s leading photo magazines do it, as the world´s leading designer. Publishing firms, artgalleries, advertising agencies and glossy lifestyle magazines do it too. Do what? Use the services of Swedish photographer Ian McRoman. Sport and water, cities and country.

From the most ancient to the very, very latest. Many of us has wondered: what does he see that seems to escape the eyes of so many other photographers? Is it the subject matter, the angle, the light and shadows, which in his images interplay to create an almost perfect reproduction of the spatility? Is it his passionate interest that lets him perceive so quickly the perfection inherent in the sport architecture he is depicting?

I have studied photography at the University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm at the end of the 1970s but it was only a decade later that he chosed to focus solely on sport and people,

“We humans are far more dated because of our clothing fashions,” he says. “Sport architecture is more timeless, even though it is also marked by time in things like the choice of materials and designs.”

A brief introduction

Welcome to the portfolio of watersport photographer ian mcroman .

How to wakesurf.

The wakesurfer typically begins by sitting in the water with the wakesurf board and rope in hand on the side of the wake they intend to surf. Other variations of the start exist but are either much more difficult or may present risk of injury. To begin the wakesurfer will place his feet on top of the floating board about shoulder width apart, with the bottoms of his feet facing the boat, and one or two hands on the rope, which is draped over the center of the board between the feet.

The boat will then move forward slightly to take the slack out of the rope and maintain this slow forward motion to allow the surfer to feel the pull and pressure. At this point the surfer pushes down with his heels on the edge of the board, which brings the board in contact with the soles of his feet. Sometimes it is helpful to reach back behind the legs with the off hand and push down on the edge of the board between the feet to bring it upright. Once the board is in contact with the soles of the feet, the surfer then gives the signal to pull them up. The surfer simultaneously stands up and turns the front of the board in the direction of travel.

Surfers who prefer to ride “goofy” foot will put their right foot forward, while “regular” foot riders will put their left foot forward. The next consideration may require some experimentation, but the surfer must decide to ride “toeside” or “heelside”, meaning they must choose the side of the wake they want to ride on. Most beginning surfers prefer to ride toeside or facing the wake. The boat accelerates at a moderate pace until the target speed is reached, somewhere between 9 to 12 miles per hour. The exact speed is determined by the shape, pitch, and length of the desired wake. Once the target speed is reached, the surfer will modulate fore/aft pressure on the board to find the “sweet spot” in the wake where the rope goes slack and is no longer needed. When the surfer is comfortable, they toss the rope in the boat or to the opposite side of the wake for retrieval by those in the boat.

Future.Wakesurfing is still a sport in its infancy and new tricks are constantly being developed. There is a wide variety of tricks possible in wakesurfing. Here is a list of the most well-known tricks, though it is not exhaustive, and the World Wakesurfing Association no longer prints a trick list.

A brief HISTORY

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Pumping- turning up and down the face of the wake to gain speed.Stalling- Applying pressure to your back foot to slow down or “stall”.Floater- When a rider and board “floats” on top of the wake.Lip slide- Just like a floater but the board is sideways.Spray- gouging into the face of the wake to create the water under you to explode and spray.Fire Hydrant- Placing one hand on the board and taking your front foot off.Posing- doing hand and body positions while riding for cool style points.Hang 5– Rider extends front foot (toes) over front of board.Rail Grabs– Grabbing the board’s rail while the board is on the wake – one or both hands.Cutbacks– Bashing off the lip of the wake with the board – the more extreme and risky the better.Paddle back in– Going to the extreme rear of the wake, throwing down on the board and paddling back in to the power zone.Tubing It– Throwing down on the board and sliding back into the tube until covered up – the deeper the better, standing back up on the board.Switch Stance- Riding with the opposite foot forward.180 spin– Spinning 180 on the wake – Board and rider spin.Airs- Launching off the lip with board into the air and landing back on the wake (toeside or heelside).One Hand Grab Air – Grabbing one rail of the board while the board is airborne above the wake.Double Grab Air – Grabbing both rails of the board while the board is airborne above the wake.Hang 10– Rider extends both feet (toes) over end of board.360 spin- Spinning 360 on the face of the wake – Board and rider spin.540 spin– Rider spins continuously 1 1/2 times until he is riding switch stance forward.720 spin– Rider spins continuously 2 complete 360’s.Air 180- doing an air while spinning 180 the blind direction.180 air- doing and air and spinning a 180 in the air and landing in with a switch stance.180 shuv-it– spinning just the board 180 under your feet and landing with the board “backwards”.900 spin– Rider spins continuously 2 1/2 times until he is riding switch stance forward.360 shuv-it– same as a 180 but you spin the board a full 360 under your feet. NOTE: rider does not spin only the board spins.Big Spin– Same as a 360 shuv-it only the rider spins a 180 at the same time the board does a 360.

TRICK LIST

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Location, Unknown Girl New Zealand 2010 Location, Austin, Texas Raleigh Hager World Champion 2013

Location, Merced, CA 2009 E. Gabriel Roman Location, Merced, CA 2012 E. Gabriel Roman

July 10, 2013Mountain, New Zealand

Photograph Taken:

World Champion in Arizona, U.S.A. 2013

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Location, Texas River 2012Location, Italy 2012

Location, Arizona 2011

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THE X-SPOT! The surf will take place at Gold Bay on Lake Koocanusa, about an hour’s drive west from Cranbrook In-ternational Airport an hour’s drive south of Fernie, BC.

With the completion of the hydro/electric dam at Libby Montana in the early 1970’s (damming the Kootenay River), Lake Koocanusa was formed. (The name “Koocanusa” is an amalgamation of the words “Kootenay” + “Canada” + “USA”.) The lake is formed north of the dam, reaching 48 miles (77 km) to the Canadian border and 42 miles (68 km) further into British Columbia. The lake holds 13% of the water in the Co-lumbia River system. There are now 75 km of navigable wa-ters from the US/Canada border north to Wardner, BC. There are a variety of ecological and environmental areas along the shoreline. You can see Deer, Elk, Wild Turkeys, Bald and Golden Eagles, Osprey and the very occasional bear. Bad-gers, coyotes and other wildlife can be seen as well.

The north end of the lake’s shore is surrounded by forests with spectacular views of the Rocky Mountains. As you journey south, the shoreline becomes more arid and sandy beaches abound. With almost 80% of the shoreline being crown land, this is a boaters paradise. This also makes the lake ideal for water-skiing and other water sports. Water temperatures in the summer can reach the high 70’s. Fed by the waters of the Kootenay River, Elk River and streams from the Flathead and Kootenay drainage systems, Kokanee and Rainbow Trout.

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surfwake behind a special tour-nament wake surf boat.

Location, Philipines 2012 Location, New Mexico 2010wkake skate pipe high surfwake

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Master of the wakesurfing tunnel towed behind wakesurf boat.

Location, California 2012wakesurf tunnel

Clockwise from left to right: Robby Naish Hawaii 2012, Surfer USA 2010, Tunnel Wake Surf California 2012

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Location, Texas 2012Location, Texas 2013 Location, Italy 2011Location, Texas 2013 Location, Somewhere 2010Location, Austin, Texas 2013

billy clark ascBri Chemel World champion wakesurf hand standBri Chemel Spin the surfing surf highbilly clark Pro surfer

Nevertheless, the sport never really separated itself and remained a quirky appendage of ocean surfing until wakeboarding began to grow in popularity beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As a result of technology to increase the size of wakeboarding wakes. The boat brand used are, WkeCraft, Centurion and others, but this two are market leaders.

The Boats are specific Wake boats with rear platforms and direct submerged drives so the propeller is under the boat so the rider cannot get munched.

You can surf on just about any thing, traditional surfboards can be used but smaller, tougher specialty wake surf boards are best.

The origins of wakesurfing are somewhat disputed with multiple people and companies claiming to be at the genesis of the sport. Footage from the 1950s and 1960s shows ocean surfers experimenting with regular surfboards behind motor boats, but at the time it was more of a gimmick than a serious attempt to develop a new genre of surfing.

Wake Surfing is free riding behind a balasted Wakeboat at slow speeds (9-14 mph). A tow line is used to get up out of the water and started on the steep wave just behind the boat. Once “locked in” the tow rope is tossed inboard and riders surf on a endless wave only to stop when they wash off or until the boat runs out of gas.

Wakesurfers generally use special boards, usually five feet or shorter. The first given wakesurf patent heve number 001765.0134 was given to Alfonso Corona in 1997.

They range from really small 3’-5’ trick boards (like skim boards with small fins) to more traditonal surf-like 5’-7’ boards with Classic pintail and squashtail lines.

Surfs up! anywhere!

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Once in a while I am going to run a little bio on some of the worlds windsurfing legends. To kick things off there really is only one person to start with…Robby Naish. Pictures paint a thousand words & one of the all time classic windsurfing films, RIP sums up just how good Robby Naish was & still is!

One of the greatest windsurfers of all time...

A quick Wiki search brings up the some interesting facts about this windsurfing legend:

Robert Staunton Naish (born April 23, 1963 in La Jolla, San Diego, California) is one of the first athletes to have gained long-lasting international fame in the sport of windsurfing. At a young age, his father, competitive surfer and surfboard shaper Rick Naish, moved the family from California to Kailua, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It was there, at the age of 11, that Robby took up the fledgling new sport of windsurfing.

Shortly thereafter, in 1976, he won his first overall - World Championship title, at the age of 13, beating many adult competitors whose experience and maturity were no match for his exceptional talent.Competing as an amateur, he went on to win successive World Championship titles from 1977 to 1979. After the emergence of the Professional Boardsailors’ Association (PBA) — later to become the Professional Windsurfing Association (PWA) —Naish won the Overall World Champion title from 1983 to 1987, and the Wave World Champion title in 1988, 1989, and 1991. He was renowned for his ‘Table Top’ and ‘Forward Loop’ moves. Adding to his fame was his ‘Longboard Loop’, where he forward looped the 3.72m long Mistral Equipe.

As an international sports celebrity, Naish has been featured in numerous films, videos, news reports, and articles. As of 2006, thirty years after his first World Champion title, he now has his own Naish brand of windsurfing equipment marketed worldwide.Basically, Robby Naish IS windsurfing and surfing!

Windsurfing Legends Robby Naish

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wakesurfing on the lake.

Laird hamilton saga

Wakesurfing (similar to, but not the same sport as, wakeboarding) is a water sport in which a surfer trails behind a wakesurf boat, surfing the boat’s wake without being directly attached to the boat. The wake from the boat mimics the look and feel of an actual ocean wave. After get-ting up on the wave by use of a tow rope, wakesurfers drop the rope and ride the steep face below the wave’s peak in a fashion reminiscent of ocean surfing. Wakesurfers generally use special boards, usually five feet or shorter.

By the age of 17, Hamilton had become an accomplished surfer and could have left modeling to pursue a career on surfing’s World Championship Tour. How-ever, competitive surfing and contests never appealed to Hamilton, who had watched his father Bill endure the com-petitive surfing contest politics and the random luck of the waves in organized championship surfing events. Bill Hamil-ton regarded surfing more as a work of art, rather than based chiefly on wave-by-wave ride performance scored by judges.

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Laird was born Laird John Zerfas in San Francisco on March 2, 1964, in an experimental salt-water sphere at UCSF Medical Center designed to ease the mother’s labor. His Greek-born father, L. G. Zerfas, left the family before his first birthday. While he was an infant, Laird and his mother, Joann (née Zyirek), moved to Hawaii. While still a young boy living on Oahu, Laird met with 1960s surfer Bill Hamilton, a bachelor at the time, on Pūpūkea beach on the North Shore. Bill Hamilton was a surfboard shaper and glasser on Oahu in the 1960s and 1970s

and owned a small business handmaking custom, high-performance surfboards for the Oahu North Shore big wave riders of the era. The two became immediate companions.

The family later moved to a remote valley on Kaua’i island. Joann and Bill had a second son, Lyon, Laird’s half-brother, who also became a surfer. Laird’s mother died of a brain aneurysm in 1997.Hamilton had a reputation for an aggressive demeanor around others of his age. This hostile attitude was in part

due to Laird and his brother Lyon being bigger than their classmates, fair-skinned, and blonde: unusual in their predominantly Hawaiian-populated neighborhood. The role of the outsider profoundly affected Laird through to his teen years and early adult life. He became used to this role and was uncomfortable being in the center of anything. He was also known for his physical and mental toughness. Young Laird is shown in early video footage jumping off a 60-foot cliff into deep water at 7 years of age.

firmly established him in the recorded history of surfing. Teahupo’o is a particularly hazardous shallow-water reef break southeast of the Pacific Island of Tahiti.

On that day, with a larger than normal ocean swell, Darrick Doerner piloted the watercraft, towing Hamilton. Pulling in and releasing the tow rope, Hamilton drove down into the well of the wave’s enormous

tunnel vortex, in full view of boat-based photographers’ and videographers’ cameras. With his signature artistic flair, Hamilton continued deeply carving water, emerging back over the wave’s shoulder. A still photograph of him riding the wave made the cover of Surfer magazine, with the caption: “oh my god...”The wave became known as “the heaviest ever ridden”.

In the filmed coverage of this event in the motion picture Riding Giants, Doerner said “I towed him onto this wave. And it was to the point where I almost said ‘Don’t let go of the rope,’ and when I looked back he was gone.

Hamilton is regarded by surfing historians as the “all time best of the best” at big wave surfing, regularly surfing swells of 35 feet (11 m) tall, and

moving at speeds in excess of 30 miles (48 km) an hour and successfully riding other waves of up to 70 feet (21 m)high, at up to 50 mph (80 km/h).[citation needed] Hamilton prefers tow-in surfing the giant waves of Pe’ahi reef (known as the Jaws surf break) on the north central shore of the Island of Maui.

Laird Hamilton Ride at Teahupo'o ReefLaird Hamilton. Force of Nature: Mind, Body,

Soul, And, of Course, Surfing..

Hamilton's drop into Tahiti's Teahupoxo break

on the morning of August 17, 2000

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Robert Staunton Naish (born April 23, 1963 in La Jolla, San Diego, California) is one of the first athletes to have gained long-lasting international fame in the sport of windsurfing. At a young age, his father, competitive surfer and surfboard shaper Rick Naish, moved the family from California to Kailua, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It was there, at the age of 11, that Robby took up the fledgling new sport of windsurfing. Shortly thereafter, in 1976, he won his first overall World Championship title, at the age of 13.

Competing as an amateur, he went on to win successive World Championship titles from 1977 to 1979. After the emergence of the Professional Boardsailors’ Association (PBA) — later to become the Professional Windsurfing Association (PWA) — Naish won the Overall World Champion title from 1983 to 1987, and the PWA World Champion title in 1988, 1989, and 1991.[2] He was renowned for his ‘Table Top’[3] and ‘Forward Loop’ moves. Adding to his fame was his ‘Longboard Loop’, where he forward looped the 3.72m long Mistral Equipe.

In the nineties, branching out into new pursuits, Naish became a noted competitor in the emerging sport of kitesurfing. In 1998, he won the kiteboarding slalom world title. In 1999, he won kiteboarding world titles in both slalom and jumping.[citation needed]

As an international sports celebrity, Naish has been featured in numerous films, videos, news reports, and articles (including O2 sports priority http://www.o2priority.co.uk/sports). As of 2006, thirty years after his first World Champion title, popular lines of sailboards, sails, and kitesurfing equipment are marketed worldwide under the Naish name.

Robby Naish, into the PWA Hall of Fame

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wakesurfing the growing sport

Wake Surfing is freeriding behind a balasted Wakeboat at slow speeds (9-14 mph).

A tow line is used to get up out of the water and started on the steep wave just behind the Boat. Once “locked in” the tow rope is tossed inboard and riders surf on a endless wave only to stop when they wash off or until the boat runs out of gas.

The Boats are specific Wake boats with rear platforms and direct submerged drives so the propeller is under the boat so the rider cannot get munched. You can surf on just about any thing, traditional surfboards can be used but smaller, tougher specialty wake surf boards are best.

They range from really small 3’-5’ trick boards (like skim boards with small fins) to more traditonal surf-like 5’-7’ boards with Classic pintail and squashtail lines. Surfs up! anywhere!

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Location, Florida 2010 Location, Arizona 2012 Bri ChemelLocation, France 2012 Hand Stand Location, South Carolina 2009

Location, Canada 2013 Chris Hau Location, New Zealand 2010Location, New Zealand 2011 Location, Texas 2012 Vanessa Gonzalez

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From left to right: Vanessa Gonzales, Robby Naish, Unknown Girl, and Vanessa Gonzales again.

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In a baby picture that documents Nick Onken’s first encounter with photography, he’s holding a Kodak 110 Instamatic. Upside down. Not taking a photo. Probably trying to get it in his mouth or balance it on top of something. Though, the thing did look like a building block, give the kid a break. He was only 3. And the sun was in his eyes. Obviously, this wasn’t a moment of clarity for Ian that the camera was his tool for creation. It wasn’t until 20 some years later that he actually put it to use. After developing a passion for art, Nick became a graphic designer and spent five years graphically designing things. And it was cool. And it went well. But when he started taking photos for a couple of his clients he got noticed and decided to get serious. So he took the camera out of his mouth and started pushing the button. A lot.

Today, after shooting for clients like Nike, Coca-Cola, Conde Nast Traveler, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Lamborghini, Ian is quickly spreading his philosophy of photography. A big believer in living in the moment, his photos follow suit. With a designer’s eye, he’s constantly searching for that perfect moment to tell the whole story. And the pursuit of these moments has taken him around the world. His love of travel has recently collided with his career and he’s published his first book, Photo Trekking. It’s also moved him from Los Angeles to New York City in mid 2009, abandoning the beautiful weather and tropical views in favor of subway lunatics and urban skylarking. The latter of which obviously lead to more interesting moments. You’ll never catch a palm tree doing back flips on a crowded train.

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Ian McRoman

Bri Chemel

Vanessa Gonzalez

Drew Danilo

Gabriel Roman

Bil ly Clark

Bri Chemel

Vanessa Gonzalez

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Matt Hooker

Robby Naish

Vanessa Gonzalez

Drew Danilo

Robby Naish

Bi l ly Clark

Bri Chemel

Vanessa Gonzalez

Drew Danilo

Raleigh Hager

Bri Chemel

Vanessa Gonzalez

Don Drinello

Robby Naish

Matt Hooker

Bri Chemel

Vanessa Gonzalez

Drew Danilo

Gabriel Roman

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The history of photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of the principle of the camera obscura and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. As far as is known, nobody thought of bringing these two phenomena together to capture camera images in permanent form until around 1800, when Thomas Wedgwood made the first reliably documented although unsuccessful attempt. In the mid-1820s, Nicéphore Niépce succeeded, but several days of exposure in the camera were required and the earliest results were very crude. Niépce’s associate Louis Daguerre went on to develop the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced photographic process, which required only minutes of exposure in the camera and produced clear, finely detailed results. It was commercially introduced in 1839, a date generally accepted as the birth year of practical photography.

The metal-based daguerreotype process soon had some competition from the paper-based calotype negative and salt print processes invented by Henry Fox Talbot. Subsequent innovations reduced the required camera exposure time from minutes to seconds and eventually to a small fraction of a second; introduced new photographic media which were more economical, sensitive or convenient, including roll films for casual use by amateurs; and made it possible to take pictures in natural color as well as in black-and-white.

The commercial introduction of computer-based electronic digital cameras in the 1990s soon revolutionized photography. During the first decade of the 21st century, traditional film-based photochemical methods were increasingly marginalized as the practical advantages of the new technology became widely appreciated and the image quality of moderately priced digital cameras was continually improved.

A brief HISTORY

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