Monthly Archives: March 2011
In The Shaping Room, 2011
I’ve had half a dozen Skip Frye pin-tails but the first one was the absolute best. Ron Mackey gave me the two halves of his broken 8’6″ G&S Frye and I put it back together behind the ski shop where … Continue reading
In The Shaping Room, 1977
By 1977 I’d graduated from college and was shooting for anybody that would pay. I was officially over the hill. I’d joined the world. I distinctly recall looking back with a little bit of regret on this day: I felt … Continue reading
In The Shaping Room
Inland – far from the bright, sunny beaches where everybody surfs – is another world where surfboards are made. Surfboards are beautiful, clean sculptural objects. Surfboard factories are not. A surfboard factory usually has a small front office with battered … Continue reading
En La Playa
The first time I saw the beach where the big Sheraton is now parked near Cabo San Lucas, there was a 100′ Japanese trawler sitting on the rocks, Lyndon Johnson was in the White House and there wasn’t a single … Continue reading
Decomposed Granite
D.G. is geologist’s shorthand for decomposed granite – a technical sounding name for the state of solid rock on its way to becoming sand. Coarse and sharp, D.G. makes beautiful, deeply textured beaches. The sand grains are so big they … Continue reading
Cabeza de Ballena
Cabeza de Ballena Point There’s something beautifully uncorrupted about Cabeza de Ballena. Even though it sits in the middle of all the hotels between Cabo San Lucas & San Jose Del Cabo, it’s wild. In a distracted moment you could … Continue reading
Field Notes: John Durant Photographer 