WOW: Wave of the Winter.
Wave of the Winter was one of two surf photography categories in a competition organised by Gisborne Boardriders Club.
“Wave of the Winter is about sharing your best surfing photo,” GBC surfing development manager Flo Bub told The Gisborne Herald in May.
“It doesn’t have to be the gnarliest or
the biggest wave. It’s about showcasing a great wave.”
Cory Scott did just that with his first-prize-winning picture of Sean Hovell as a half-seen figure turning at the bottom of a marble-faced giant. The surfer is said to have been a shade apprehensive at the sound these waves made as they hit the reef but later “rode six of the most deadly waves of his life without even getting his hair wet.”
