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Dreamy Cornwall On The Last Day of Winter

A pictorial gallery as the Cornish coast lights up during the season shift Depending on your season preferences, the end of February can be considered the last day of winter. Spring is arriving the next day. Buds are appearing on…

By Ben Mondy

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The North Devon Coast Lights Up: Looking back at a week of waves.

March. What a joyous month. Days getting longer, birdsong in your ears, optimism in the air! And this year, a seemingly never ending run of waves and good weather. With Wavelength heading to North Devon in May for the Spring…

By Andy Tozer

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World’s Greatest Surf Photographer Chris Burkard: ‘I Found A Joy In Loneliness’

Perhaps more than any other surf photographer in the last decade, Chris Burkard has not only redefined the occupation, but the medium itself. 3.6 million Instagram followers live vicariously through his high latitude adventures, where the sense of raw freedom…

By Paul Evans

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2020 Through The Lens Of WL Photographer Luke Gartside

There’s no doubt it feels frivolous to review a year as grave as 2020 through a prism as trivial as surf photography. However, amid the continuing roll call of doom, gloom and zoom that was the last 12 months, people…

By Luke Gartside

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GALLERY: The Weirdest Spring Ever In Cornwall

As we approach the midpoint of 2020, let’s take a look back together at the strangest 6 months in living memory through the medium of a few Cornish surf shots. The year started off normal enough. We told stories of…

By Luke Gartside

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GALLERY: The Best Shots & Clips From The European Winter

With 33 surfable nations bordering almost a dozen seas and oceans, Europe is one of the world’s true juggernauts when it comes to surfing riches. While many of these vast aquatic bodies lay dormant in spring and summer months, winter…

By Luke Gartside

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WATCH: One Epic Session At A Rare Cornish Gem

Is anyone else currently enduring one of those stints where surfing starts to feel less like a joyous pursuit and more like an act of self-flagellation? You’ve got to go out, of course, lest you fall into the rhythm of…

By Luke Gartside

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GALLERY: Europe Lights Up As Storm Brendan Hits

Earlier this week, the first named storm of the decade bowled across the Atlantic sending swell radiating down into every cove and kink along Europe’s Atlantic facing coastlines. Unusually for a swell of this magnitude, the system swerved north in…

By Luke Gartside

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GALLERY: Inviting Lineups From Around Galicia

For many travelling surfers, Spain’s north coast begins and ends with the Basque country. While those with a bit more time on their hands may keep heading west, past Santander and into the depths of Cantabria or even across the…

By Luke Gartside

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Europe’s Most Memorable Named Storm Swells

In 2014 the Met Office and its Irish counterpart hatched a wild new initiative, inspired by their friends at the US hurricane centre across the pond. Instead of letting social media and newspaper hacks name weather systems set to wreak…

By Luke Gartside

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GALLERY: Hossegor Free Surf Sessions

Isn’t it nice, in a world of constant uncertainty and flux, to return each year to a place where everything is joyous and never seems to change? For at least two weeks in October, when the Quik Pro swings into…

By Luke Gartside

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It’s Been An Excellent Start To Summer In North East England

While Britain’s south-west corner spent much of May, June and July languishing in a flat spell, the east coast has been enjoying an unusually consistent start to the summer season. Here’s a jubilant (and only slightly smug) dispatch from local…

By Luke Gartside

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