While Santa Cruz:Visions Of Surf City uses surfing as a starting point, it is not a book just about waves and wave riders. Better than any book that we've seen before, the photos in Patrick's book show the natural beauty and charming characters that the Monterey Bay is rightly famed for. From the farms of the north coast to the street musicians on the downtown mall, from master surfboard shapers to free thinking artists, from world famous big wave surfers to empty waves. This book captures the soul of our beloved hometown. The book is sure to please anyone who loves California, loves Santa Cruz, loves surfing, loves good photography, loves life. Visions of Surf City is the only photo book to focus on Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz: Visions of Surf City

Trefz, Patrick

Solid Publishing Inc.

Surfers' Blood, the latest monograph from award-winning surf photographer and filmmaker Patrick Trefz, is a survey of decades spent photographing the lifestyles and bloodlines of surf culture across the globe. Surfers' Blood captures all the diverse elements that make surfing so gripping and that helped it maintain its vitality in the popular consciousness for generations. A beautiful collection of oceanscapes, portraits, and action shots, Trefz captures the most intense, glamorous, and frightening aspects of surfing along with moments of beauty, stillness, and serenity. The book juxtaposes world champions and unsung local heroes, monster waves and gentle rollers. Surfing is all about mankind's intimate connection with the badass energy and beauty of nature. It is a deep bond, and for many surfing is a lifelong devotion and a spiritual outlet—a personal experience far removed from its much-hyped and commercialized public persona. Surfing is deeper than magazines and Hollywood depictions would lead us to believe—much deeper. For most surfers, surfing is in their blood and it connects them to an extended family that is linked through practice, tradition, craft, emulation, apprenticeship, and shared experience. Surfers' Blood reaches out to those hardcore, dyed-in-the-wool surfers through an honest and beautiful portrayal of their sport and its surrounding culture, while at the same time offering outsiders a peek into the intense undiluted world of surf.

Surfers' Blood

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

powerHouse Books

Surfers' Blood captures all the diverse elements that make surfing so gripping and that helped it maintain its vitality in the popular consciousness for generations. A beautiful collection of oceanscapes, portraits, and action shots, Trefz captures the most intense, glamorous, and frightening aspects of surfing along with moments of beauty, stillness, and serenity. The book juxtaposes world champions and unsung local heroes, monster waves and gentle rollers.

Urdinaga, Iñigo

Brisick, Jamie

Surfers' Blood captures all the diverse elements that make surfing so gripping and that helped it maintain its vitality in the popular consciousness for generations. A beautiful collection of oceanscapes, portraits, and action shots, Trefz captures the most intense, glamorous, and frightening aspects of surfing along with moments of beauty, stillness, and serenity. Surfers' Blood reaches out to those hardcore, dyed-in-the-wool surfers through an honest and beautiful portrayal of their sport and its surrounding culture, while at the same time offering outsiders a peek into the intense undiluted world of surf.

Surfers' Blood: Redux

Brisik, Jamie

Acclaimed chef, surfer, and photographer Patrick Trefz features in his third powerHouse title scours the globe to home in on spots offering tasty visuals of innovative local dishes, supreme surfing nooks, and camaraderie with fellow chef surfers. Includes three dozen regional recipes.

Ode to Travel

Beamish, Christian

Kinch, David

Denevan, Jim

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Santa Cruz: Visions of Surf City

Santa Cruz: Visions of Surf City

Surfers' Blood

Surfers' Blood

Surfers' Blood: Redux

Ode to Travel