"Hello to everyone in web world. My name is Patrick Ruddy. I hope you enjoy my portfolio."

"This is Asher Nolan in Ventura. Just a real clean morning, we both got up kind of early and this wave came through, I think this might have been his first wave actually." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is Kelly Slater from Lowers on a really fun summer afternoon."

"This is the Central America Rivermouth wave. Super fickle wave. It really doesn't get good all that often and it only gets good for a short period of time." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo of my friend Kyle Knox from San Diego. We had planned on doing this shoot for a while and eventually we finally both were able to link up." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo of Eric Geiselman from the Mentawais."

"This is a photo of Balaram Stack from New York. I actually kind of feel like he should have went right on this one because if you look real closely you can see there's a water photographer." MORE IN AUDIO.

"Steve Sherman. This was his last day as photo editor of Surfing Magazine. I shot this I think in like 2008 or something like that. Super inspirational guy." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This guy. Alex Gray, Outer Banks. Alex is just a cool guy to be around. Doesn't matter what you're doing with him, he's just always having fun." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo of Jamie O'Brien from Pipeline. Just a real clean afternoon on the North Shore. Jamie's just, he's a freak show out there. He gets so many good waves, and rightfully so." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo from out on Long Island. Sometime in mid-September, obviously a hurricane swell. But really just real clean, fun afternoon." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is Pat Towersey at his house in Newport. Pat's a really cool guy. I remember when I first moved to California he would invite me to come stay with him." MORE IN AUDIO.

"Here's another photo of Pat behind his house on 54th Street. I think right before we got there he picked that board up. I think it's one of Duncan Campbell's Bonzers." MORE IN AUDIO.

"Shea. This guy's a frother. Like a real frother. Any time the waves are good he's just absolutely jonesing. I remember we were the first ones down there this morning." MORE IN AUDIO.

"Nathaniel Curran at Rincon. Rincon's kind of a hard wave to shoot. It has a lot to offer but there's so many options you never know what to shoot when you go there. So I feel like sometimes you just get lucky." MORE IN AUDIO.

"Peter Mendia, Outer Banks, I want to say 2009. This was the best day of swell I've ever seen at the Banks." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo of Dugan and Mez at the ESM office I think in 2006 or 2007. These guys are legends. They've done so much." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo from HTs. We had probably gotten there like maybe fifteen minutes earlier and it wasn't quite working yet. It was like really shallow and just kind of exploding on the reef a little too much." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo of Kyle Garza from Puerto Rico. Just a really good day. Only a few guys out too, and the tide was just getting perfect." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is another photo of Puerto Rico in the same wave on the left and this day it was a little more psycho. I was there with Oliver Kurtz and we sat there staring at it for like an hour." MORE IN AUDIO.

"It's really tough being a photographer from Florida. They say it's tough being a photographer from New York and New Jersey but in reality the quality of the waves up there is much better than here." MORE IN AUDIO.

"Here's a photo of Andrew Gesler from New Jersey. New Jersey's probably one of my favorite places to go when it gets good. I feel like when it does get good it gets world class." MORE IN AUDIO.

"As a surf photographer you're constantly relying on your subject. And the quality of surfers you shoot with reflects in the quality of your work sometimes. I always love days like this where I don't have to rely on surfers." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo of Chris Ward from Lowers. Lowers is kind of a weird wave. It's hard to really get a good photo there." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo of Balaram Stack from the Outer Banks on kind of a small day, as you can tell. It's maybe two foot. But I still felt like it was worth shooting." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is kind of a touchy photo for me. This was right after the Gulf Coast disaster. I went to stay with Sterling for about a week or so. I had never met Yancy before this." MORE IN AUDIO.

"Mikala Jones at Pipeline. I can't say enough about Mikala. He's such a cool guy. I had never met him before I went out there but I went out there and he let me stay at his house for free." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo of Nathan Fletcher from Pipeline. I really love Nate's approach to surfing. It's so different from everyone else in his era and he's still pushing new limits with everything he does." MORE IN AUDIO.

"This is a photo of my friend Michael Dunphy from Sea Haven in the Outer Banks. Just a real clean mid-morning ripable day on the Banks." MORE IN AUDIO.