In the final heat Armansyah Baharudin, ten years old from Hu'u, out-surfed all the others in the under-14 division and was rewarded with a custom surfboard, a load of prizes and the title of the best grom under-14 of Sumbawa. The under-16 final was a hard battle between Usman, who won last year's GromSearch in Sumbawa, Yasin, Mansur and 12 year-old Andre. In the end Yasin won the title of the best under-16 grom in Sumbawa and the trip to Bali to compete at this year's GromSearch final held in Kuta beach in October during Rip Curl's Surf and Music Festival. All photos by Mick Curley.

Some known, some not-so-well known. Only Jim Sheedy knows the answer... All photos by John Clark.//STUART NETTLE

Shaun Freeman and co hit The Road and put on a show as the day draws to a close. All photos by Gary Parker.//STUART NETTLE

Clear blue sky, swell a'plenty, and offshore winds that last all day: ahh autumn, how we've missed you. Laurence Tuchin took these photos during a midday roam around the top of the 'Gong. All photos by Laurence.//STUART NETTLE

hooking into the swell at the last stop on the NSW line. All photos by Ryan Williams.//STUART NETTLE

In this issue we turn up the volume on Gold Coast Hi-Fi, roll out the bullion on a Golden Autumn Swell and feature South Australian photographer, Shane Smith, licking the cream from his digital crop. Taste test these fine samples, and remember there's 34 more pages inside.

Helicopter shots, underwater shots, split-screen shots: surfing is being photographed and captured in various ways these days. The quest for originality is encouraging photographers to seek new angles. But then, as a surfer, sometimes all I wanna see on screen is what I see during a session: a committed bottom turn viewed from point blank or enjoying front row seating as a surfer gets pitted. That is the stuff that gets me pumped, and Teena Nienaber nails it here.//STUART NETTLE

In recent years Australians have been visiting Papua New Guinea in increasing numbers to walk the Kokoda Trail, the WW2 supply trail that connects the northern and southern coasts.

It doesn't take much to highlight the best qualities of a swell these days; a couple of well positioned frames can easily sum up an entire day of surfing.

They're political animals those Cenny Coast surfers. As the NSW Liberals marched into power and Barry O'Farrell stood on the podium as our new premier, Russ Molony and Wanga Wayne pulled into a couple of Fatty O'Barrells to celebrate the victory. All photos by Grant Molony.//STUART NETTLE

Yes, its Glamarama, in all its offshore glory! The afternoon before these shots were taken, the World Champ had a surprise session here, however there are no shots of that devon-headed spotlight-stealer in this gallery.

Sydney is the sort of place that hardly ever gets perfect waves. Long stretches of time, with waves measuring in quality from good to grim, are endured by the sizeable surfing population in the hope that someday soon it'll get perfect again.

Here's the second part of this mornings Session 'One Of Those Days'. There's also a couple of bonus images from Thursday afternoon at the end!

Surfing's own Superhero threaded a few tricky pits during a fly-in fly-out session at the Botany Bay reefbreak during the recent run of swell in Sydney. Grant Trouvile was on hand to film three of his waves.//STUART NETTLE

Ox can also add cancer survivor to that list, 'cause this time last year he was laid out with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and things were looking decidedly grim. He's healthy now, the odds are improving and he's using sympathy votes to claim set waves at the Island and other Cronulla reefs.

Yesterday she put on a not-so-private show for anyone who was willing to play. Photos by Charlie Straumietis.

But when photos such as these get passed your way who are we to stick to schedule? John Barton scores during an early season Indo jaunt. All photos by John.//STUART NETTLE

Torrential rain, filthy water, onshore winds and a junky swell. That's what greeted weekend warriors, but it all had to change at some point.

Surf photography's a hard gig. Anyone with a handful of bucks can order a fancy camera online, and stand at the beach snapping off eight frames per second as the local talent attempts to get vertical. Thus resulting in gigabytes of half-turns and bogged rails.

We've seen prime logging conditions across Southeast Queensland over the last few days. Sam Norwood dragged himself out of the lumber yard at Noosa Heads to capture these lovely images.