Mentawai Trip now posted!

I finally posted an entry on Mentawai Surf Photos from my recent Mentawai Trip.  If you go to the website you can find the entry in the lower left portion of the site where it says ‘Photos’ or you can follow this link to my latest Mentawai Trip.

The entry includes photos and the ‘photographer’s light table’ that is pretty cool to see all the top 100 shots.  There are a few more things coming including video and a time lapse of the trip.  

The videos were shot using the go pro cameras, which are all the rage at the moment and I am quickly becoming a believer.  I will fully review the camera and give you some pointers on it in a coming post, but for now you can read what my friend Mark Anders wrote about the camera in this gopro article on Surfline. You can also look at this video of me surfing Macaronis with a go pro during my Mentawai testing stage, but it is nothing like the cool video of Jon Jon getting shacked on Go Pro’s website.  I did this so you could see what a an ‘average guy’ looks like surfing with the go pro. 

I really like the time lapse feature (photo every 2 seconds) and have some great footage to share, but it takes time to stitch – I thought photographs took time, but moving pictures are a whole other thing!  I am getting into it and loving the results. I will share it someday soon and it is worth the wait if you are into the artistic.

This photo was taken inside of the Indies Trader 3 from the dining room table while I was working on some photos behind the computer.  The window was right in front of me and all I had to do was pick up my camera.  The boys had just eaten lunch and were resting before paddling back out at Macaronis while it continued to peel off the boats stern with just a few guys out.  The surfer in me always gets kind of restless when I see perfect empty waves going to waste, but we can’t surf all day and there’s going to be more, so I am slowly learning to relax when I see the perfect set reel off.  If you look to the left on the photo you can see a bulletin board with some random photos that changes every now and then. At the moment there is a shot of two guys on the boat – Martin Daly and Laird Hamilton. Above that another empty wave and so on.  I really like this boat and it’s history.  

Again, I want to say I had a great time on this trip with Eddie and the boys and just want to send out a big thanks to everyone!

Posted on Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 1:15 am. Filed under: Mentawai Tags: Mentawai, Mentawai Islands, surf photographer, Surfing RSS 2.0 feed.