Photographer Dwight Mudry announced the release of his self-published digital book "Skim: A Photographer's Journey."
As an amateur photographer, Mudry photographed waves for several years, but he felt his images were usually pretty uninteresting.
That all changed when he first saw a skimboarder on Aliso Beach, in Southern California, who was running down the beach into the surf, sliding far out to catch the almost vertical face of the oncoming wave, throwing a huge spray fan, and wrapping around to return to the sand.