Otherwise known as Timo, @gotfilm’s high water mark as Quiksilver staff shooter might have been bunking with Kelly and Dane in the glory years when Quik still had a semi-respectable WCT surf team.

If wide angle water shots are your thing, he can throw his hat in with some of the very best fisheye-ers in the game, with notable frames from Graviere, Pipe and Teahupoo, amongst others in his body of work, which is somewhat startling given that he comes from Helsinki, Finland.

If ‘atmospheric’ lifestyle-scapes or wrinkly old fishermen with ‘expressive’ faces are your thing, well then not so much.

Water photography technique isn’t solely about the resulting frames. Watch some of the very finest water shooters (from the beach) as they shoot going through a barrelling wave, and you’ll notice they leave almost no trace of themselves, no chandelier, no dragging down of lip. Barely a ripple. In this under-appreciated regard, Gotfilm is also very highly accomplished.

Gotfilm has got 15k followers, which is pretty healthy for a European surf shooter, perhaps garnered by the proven ‘Tag Kelly, hope he replies’ method.

He often does.