By Michael Kilcullen Photo November 19, 2015

Nate Best Defines Montauk with 12 Incredible Photos

….This is Montauk. Photo: Nate Best.
If this doesn’t get you training when the ocean’s flat, I don’t know what will. Photo: Nate Best.
Photo: Nate Best.
Grant Monahan giving a clinic on proper rail-work power-turning during Hurricane Cristobal. Photo: Nate Best.
There is nothing better then the solitude of a winter swell, snowy dunes and northwest wind. Photo: Nate Best.
The downtown Montauk dunes, right before they stared getting ripped up for the Army Corp’s & East Hampton Town’s Downtown Montauk Revetment Project, a solid wall of sand bags running the entire length of Montauk’s village. Suffice it to say, I haven’t gotten a lot of work done the last few week trying to pull the brakes on this project. History has shown that these types of revetments actually create a greater level of erosion to the beaches they attempt to help. The beach will never look like this again. Photo: Nate Best.
Never Never Land. I just can’t get enough of this shot. Photo: Nate Best.
Here is Leif Engstrom getting cylindrical during Hurricane Joaquin. After a sleepy hurricane season, Joaquin brought some of the best surf the East End had seen in years. Photo: Nate Best.
I’m such a sucker for that early morning light. Photo: Nate Best.
Austin Eckardt showing off the outline of the “Avery,” one of his shapes he’s been developing with shaper Cloud Nine Customs. Photo: Nate Best.
Hurricane Bertha with the early morning pastel vibe. Photo: Nate Best.
These are quintessential Montauk fall elements for me — cat-tails, dynamic clouds and warm afternoon light. Photo: Nate Best.

When Montauk photographer Nate Best hit us up last week, it wasn’t in regards to exclusively featuring his incredible work on our site. In fact, it about a single photo we had posted in our Everything You Need to Know About #SaveMontauk post, in which we admittedly miscredited a photo that belonged to Nate. In what can only be described in a most upbeat spirit, Nate made us aware of our blunder + incidentally had us realizing that the East End lensman has a plethora of phenomenal photos that deserve to be seen as far as the Internet can reach.

Above you will find gallery filled with 12 awesome photos that Nate took on the East End, all of which are accompanied by his own meaningful captions. Please enjoy and do not feel creepy for falling in love with one photo too long (we have… more than once).

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