Catch a break: surf adventures in the California sun – in pictures

Surfer Todd Weaver takes magical pictures of the Golden State – from ombre skies reflected in the sea to crashing waves and rising full moons

Main image: Float on … an image from Fade To West. Photograph: Todd Weaver

Thu 4 Sep 2025 08.00 CEST

Cloud in Green Stripe, 2018

Todd Weaver: ‘This one was taken on my half-frame camera at my favourite place to surf, First Point in Malibu. The colour is a one of a kind. I don’t think I could repeat it in a thousand tries. The stripe is an artefact of my pre-exposing process.’ All photographs: Todd Weaver. Fade to West: Paul Jasmin & Todd Weaver is at Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, until 13 September. You can see exhibition images from Paul Jasmin here.

Catch a break: surf adventures in the California sun – in pictures

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