LiQUiFY Magazine December 2016

LiQUiFY SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND’S OWN DECEMBER 2016

SpotX Q U EE N S LA N D CY C LO NE S EA S ON LO C KE D & L OA D ED

NOTHING BUT THE BEST OF LIQUIFY FROM OUR FIRST TO LAST COVER // SURF, MUSIC & MORE...

R EWIND BEST OF PHOTO ANNUAL

December 2016

Editor & Senior Photographer // Luke Sorensen Managing Editor // Rachel Syers

004 - Editor’s Intro

008 - 2016 Photo special

Contributors // Barry Stalwart, Mark Wilba Wilson, Wilbert Starbird, Diogo D’Orey, Ewan Rutledge Contributions, advertising and enquiries welcome editor@liquifymag.com

that’s it!

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EDITOR’S NOTE It’s been a while, years in fact - and we’re somehow still doing this. A stack of massive issues down and many miles travelled and LiQUiFY is stoked to look back on it all in this issue. We’ve scoured through the archives to bring you a handful of our favourite images from the last 4 years, and a few new things that were hanging around on the hard drives. It’s about swells long gone, gigs that made your hair stand on end, people and places long forgotton and a glimpse of the year ahead. Thanks for being part of it with us, and we’ll see you in 2017 with a fresh batch of lit content. Sit back and soak your eyeballs in our pictorial edition!

Sheldon Simkus ,The Other Side, Cyclone Pam swell // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Kirra Point, Cyclone Winston // Photo WIlbert Starbird

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Superbank, Cyclone Winston // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Dane Reynolds, Dbah // Photo Stephen Walters @monts_pix

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Spot X // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Dom Walsh, Hole, Indo // Photo Diogo D’Orey @inwaterwetrust

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Burleigh 2016 // Photo Barry Stalwart

Spot X Selfie // Photo Barry Stalwart

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Deftones, Chino, Brisbane // Photo Luke Sorensen

Deftones, Chino, Brisbane // Photo Luke Sorensen

The Other Side, Cyclone Pam swell // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Mick Fanning, Quik Pro // Photo Luke Sorensen

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The exit, Seaway // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Matt Wilkinson, Little Mali Hack, Quik Pro // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Matt Wilkinson, first CT win, Quik Pro // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Late on the island // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Dean Morrison, Dbah // Photo Barry Stalwart

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Main Beach, swell of the decade // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Main Beach, swell of the decade // Photo Luke Sorensen

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The Other Side, late swim // Photo Luke Sorensen

Paul Barnard, North Coast NSW // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Kram, Stephanie Gilmore, Spiderbait, Falls Festival Byron Bay // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Northeast Party House, Falls Festival // Photo Luke Sorensen

Kelly Slater, Coolangatta // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Rabbit, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, Andrew McKinnon, World Surf Reserve ceremony // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Last light, The Other Side // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Toby Mossop, TOS // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Bede Durbidge, Burleigh // Photo Luke Sorensen

Karina Rozunko, Dbah // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Joel Parkinson, Dbah // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Joel Parkinson, Dbah // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Asher Wales, Dbah // Photo Luke Sorensen

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South Stradbroke Island // Photo Luke Sorensen

Damien Healy, Burleigh Single Fin Comp// Photo Luke Sorensen

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Craig Harvey, Burleigh // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Heith Norrish, North Burleigh dawn // Photo Wilbert Starbird

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Craig Harvey, Main Beach // Photo Luke Sorensen

Dbah, Cyclone Oswald // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Spit fire // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Triplets, The Spit // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Gary Marshall, TOS // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Terror, Solothurn Switzerland// Photo Luke Sorensen

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Deftones, Parklands, Big Day Out // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Suicidal Tendencies, the late Tim Rawbiz Williams, Germany // Photo Luke Sorensen

Tim Macdonald, South Stradbroke Island // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Josh Fuller, Northern NSW // Photo Ewan Rutledge

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Wayne McKewen, Seaway, circa 1993 // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Josh Dowthwaite, Burleigh // Photo Wilba @photowilba

Frighteningly huge Snapper Rocks // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Snapper Rocks, vicious lefts // Photo Luke Sorensen

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South Stradbroke dream // Photo Luke Sorensen

Surfers Paradise view // Photo Luke Sorensen

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One barrel, many men, Dbah // Photo Barry Stalwart

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Joel Parkinson, infamous bird, Kirra, Quik Pro // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Night sessions, The Spit // Photo Luke Sorensen

Border view, Dbah // Photo Luke Sorensen

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Kelly Slater, Snaper Rocks lefts // Photo Luke Sorensen

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