{"id":136485,"date":"2025-02-26T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T05:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=136485"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T05:39:26","slug":"behind-the-dream-shot-josh-bystrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=136485","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Dream Shot:  Josh Bystrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136486\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7268-535x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7268-535x800.jpg 535w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7268-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7268-768x1148.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7268-696x1041.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7268-281x420.jpg 281w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7268.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got a text from Benji Brand saying <strong>&#8220;You see this?! Dream shot!! Wow&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to connect with photographer Josh Bystrom last week at Backdoor. \u00a0There is a story to this that SWELLNET.COM published. \u00a0It&#8217;s pretty cool because I pulled into this barrel and saw this lone photographer in the right place at the right time. \u00a0This was one of the big days at Pipeline\/Backdoor so no other photographer was brave enough to swim and wait in the scariest spot you need to get a photo like this. \u00a0You almost have to be crazy. \u00a0Yes, the photos from the beach are good, but nothing compares to being in a huge barrel like this together. \u00a0Of the hundreds of water shots I&#8217;ve gotten at Backdoor throughout the past 40 years, this has to be one of my best. \u00a0Dream shot for sure!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-136490\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swellnet-800x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swellnet-800x688.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swellnet-1024x880.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swellnet-768x660.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swellnet-1536x1320.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swellnet-2048x1760.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swellnet-696x598.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swellnet-1068x918.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swellnet-1920x1650.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swellnet-489x420.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swellnet.com\/news\/swellnet-dispatch\/2025\/02\/18\/behind-the-shot-josh-bystrom\">*CLICK HERE FOR THE STORY ON SWELLNET.COM.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a text from Benji Brand saying &#8220;You see this?! Dream shot!! Wow&#8221; I was lucky enough to connect with photographer Josh Bystrom last week at Backdoor. \u00a0There is a story to this that SWELLNET.COM published. \u00a0It&#8217;s pretty cool because I pulled into this barrel and saw this lone photographer in the right place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirbyblog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136491,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136485\/revisions\/136491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}