Click on thumbnail for larger image

DIMENSIONS: All prints are supplied in matts and backed. Dimensions listed below are the overall size of the matt.

IMAGE SIZE: 28 x 42 cm

Buying prints
Courier delivery within Australia is included in the listed prices. For overseas enquiries, please email johnwitzig@bigpond.com for costs.
PayPal also accepts Visa and Mastercard.


<em><i>So cool...so stylish...so 1960s</em></i>
<em><i>Wayne Lynch's prodigious natural talent began to make its mark on Australian surfing in the mid-1960s with a seemingly effortless fluidity. Wayne was always the radical, consistently breaking new ground with his manoeuvres - with grace and an acute sensitivity to the breaking wave. "This period was one of exploration and experimentation in board design and lines drawn across the wave. I like the way I have lifted my arm to allow the lip to just be touching me without getting hit hard." Wayne Lynch </em></i>
<p>Bob McTavish at Point Cartwright in Queensland. For a long time during the early 60s, the dominant aesthetic of surfing had been to pose (arching being a bonus) like one of the ancient Hawaiians – having a setting sun in the background was another plus. Nat Young and McTavish threw this nostalgia aside with an aggressive attack...few other pictures summed up their approach to 'complete involvement' better than this one.</p>
The stylish surfing that made Midget Farrelly the outstanding Australian surfer in the first half of the 1960s. Midget won the Makaha contest in Hawaii in 1962, and the inaugural World Championships at Manly in 1964
<p>The major surfing contests – like Bells and the Australian Championships – were also social events quite unlike any others in surfing. People gathered together who might not see one another again during the entire year. From the left: Kim McKenzie, Micha Mueller, Phyllis OíDonell, Nat Young, Judy Trim, Carol Watts and Alison Cheyne.</p>
<p>Nat and Bob McTavish took their short, radical and experimental V-bottom boards to Hawaii in the winter of 1967-68. The boards may have spun out at Sunset, but at Honolua Bay on Maui, "tracks were taken out of the curl in a way which had never been done before...going for blatent changes in direction, looking for the most intense areas of the wave, chasing the curl without too much thought for aesthetics". (Nat Young).</p>
<p>Tiny, glassy, late afternoon Main Beach. In the very first years that the Noosa area was surfed, probably no one knew it better, or surfed it better than Bob McTavish. The poise is perfect, the position of the left hand dance-like in its precision.</p>
<p>Nat Young described Ti Tree as providing "a long-running consistent quality curl" that allowed him to further develop his style. In the mid-60s this included a considerable emphasis on nose-riding...and despite the fact that Nat's win at the World Championship in San Diego in 1966 served to discredit nose riding as the be-all and end-all of surfing, he was pretty useful at it.</p>
<p>Nat Young says that in the early 60s a good surfer was judged mainly on their bottom turn - "Midget had the best... Gopher's was 'king'". Bruce Channon describes this as "a wonderful photo of the North Avalon surfer, battling windy conditions, hauling his plank through a 180 degree turn, both arms held stylishly at head-height, shoulders rotated, hair flying".</p>
PayPal account not required. All major credit cards accepted through PayPal.