{"id":154802,"date":"2020-01-04T19:51:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T02:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=154802"},"modified":"2020-01-04T19:51:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T02:51:14","slug":"big-waves-feed-my-soul-surf-photographer-dishes-on-shooting-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=154802","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big waves feed my soul&#8217;: Surf photographer dishes on shooting Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m a broken surfer,\u201d says photographer Ben Schutzer. \u201cI can\u2019t paddle into the waves anymore. I now surf through my camera.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schutzer, now 47, started surfing long before he began shooting photos. At age six you could find him riding the long, rolling waves of Malibu&#8217;s First Point at Surfrider Beach. He didn&#8217;t chase the giant waves at famed surf spot Mavericks until the 1990s when he said, &#8220;It was a bunch of yahoos out there trying to figure out the wave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There were no\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/weather\/article\/Mavericks-surf-Ben-Schutzer-photography-waves-big-14939886.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m a broken surfer,\u201d says photographer Ben Schutzer. \u201cI can\u2019t paddle into the waves anymore. I now surf through my camera.&#8221; Schutzer, now 47, started surfing long before he began shooting photos. At age six you could find him riding the long, rolling waves of Malibu&#8217;s First Point at Surfrider Beach. He didn&#8217;t chase the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154803,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154802\/revisions\/154803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}