Maverick’s surf photographer Don Montgomery has left his hometown of Pacifica and moved to the Sierra near the town of Placerville, but his friends wanted to give him a proper send off party.
His buddy and business partner Eric W. Nelson, a big wave documentarian and videographer who produces all of the Maverick’s video films (also the first person to shoot Maverick’s from the water on a surfboard), was behind the party. Eric told Montgomery in advance there was going to be just a little farewell get together. What Nelson did not tell his friend is that Mayor Jim Vreeland would be on hand to officially proclaim the day the “Don Montgomery Day.”
Montgomery’s early photographs of Maverick’s stunned the world when they were first published in Surfer magazine in 1987. In 2007 his photo of Shane Desmond at Maverick’s won the surfer the award for largest paddle-in wave. A lot of surfers are going to miss Don, especially when they’re throwing their asses on the line.
[Link: Pacifica Tribune]
