Wallpaper Paste
The emails don’t stop about this wave. I’ve even had offers from random people to pay me to take them here! Surfer Magazine ran it as a 2 pg. spread, and now you can set it as your desktop wallpaper. Enjoy.
The Metamorphosis
Each month many of my photos are passed over by editors because they’re empty waves, lacking a corporate logo, or backlit leaving the rider indistinguishable. It’s frustrating, because I find myself wanting to shoot issues and moody scenes that aren’t suited for editorial, but rather art galleries. Opening night is really rewarding for me because [...]
Wax On Wax Off
I’ve been seeing some incredible surfing the past couple days. There are so many candidates for Wave of the Week; I’ve even been saving heinous wipeout images as well. So during the time in Hawaii each week I’ll post an incredible wipeout. Here’s one at Off the Wall. For every photo from Kodak Reef that [...]
Postcard from Paradise
Surfline was loving a sequence I took of Pat Guadaskas at Pipeline. The wave spit hard and it threw him off balance and we almost collided in the impact zone. I posted it earlier this week, but this is in a flash slide show, so it’s really rad to see it autoplay like a movie [...]
Dual Angle
Surfer Magazine’s Assistant Photo Editor, JP Van Swae, was in the channel documenting the great swell that hit the North Shore this week. In the foreground you can see me shooting with a shorter lens amongst 30+ photographers. Owen Wright driving through the barrel with balmy evening colors…
Sequence Mania
Hawaii has been amazing… Usually this early in the season it’s characterized by rain and clouds, but it’s been sunny with offshore winds! And this morning I can hear the waves breaking on the shelf across the street. Time to go for a swim. More to come…
Good to Epic
Cool vintage gear I won this week on Ebay: 1. Limited edition Reeboks with the pump action tongue 2. Yashica T4 Super D with waist level super scope and Carl Zeiss lens
Swell Coming?
Thank God there is a little bump on the swell radar maps because I’m going stir-crazy in Hawaii. But I suppose palm trees and sunshine is better than any day back in the states when it’s snowing in SoCal and Vegas…
Black Friday
Fresh NW swell hit Hawaii on Black Friday. Shallow, thick, and very dangerous. There were a couple casualties that day starting with Rasta in the AM, and then Aamion Goodwin in the afternoon. I shot this photo and raced back to the pad for my waterhousing. There were 30+ photographers shooting in the channel, everyone [...]
Brown Barrels
Well, the power went out all last night. I guess it made national news because Obama is staying on the island. Pretty quiet on the North Shore, but all this rain has made the water an ugly color. Brown barrels at Backdoor looked more like Mexico than Hawaii. A lot of people got sick from [...]