Paddle power is back!
I got a call from a friend of mine today from the North Shore of Oahu. He was standing on a 3-story beach house where he was doing construction. There were a few guys surfing a well known tow-in spot in front of him and he was giving me the play by play. ”One of [...]
Big ups to Shane
Who is one of the best all around surfers in the world today? Kelly? Well, ofcourse. Mick after his second world title? Yes. Joel’s surgical cuts even after his world title collapse? Sure, the argument could be made…and there are many others. But I’m all about looking a little deeper and beyond the ASP tour. [...]
Eddie Overview
‘Hey, cool photo,’ you might say in a non impressed way, but some of you realize what you are looking at. This is a view from the West (Haleiwa side) of Waimea Bay! So what? Well here’s the deal. There is no way up on that cliff- no road, no trail (other than the small [...]
Buzzy would tow!
Everyone knows how much I love Waimea, so why would I go with Buzzy’s tow-in team when the Eddie was on? I was asking myself this exact question when the 20 foot set caught us inside. I knew better. I should have stayed on solid ground, but I found myself on the back of jet [...]
The ‘Almost Eddie’ Day
I am too tired to write much because I was up at 3am hoping today would be ‘The Eddie’. Well, It didn’t go, but there were still some incredible waves and remarkable performances. Here’s a shot I liked because it shows the whole wave in the scene and gives it some scale. The evening started [...]
Kelly at Backdoor Pipeline, Oahu
While the Triple crown’s second event is being won by Joel Parkinson over at Sunset Beach, I decided to take a smaller lens and shoot some wider shots at Pipeline. It’s nice to be able to walk around more freely (not that I don’t move around with my big lens- shame so many surf photographers [...]
Waimea Bay (warm up?)
At any other time this would be really good Waimea Bay, but with all the hype of the next swell, it seems everyone is overlooking today’s good surf. I say this was a great day- sunny, light variable winds and some incredible surfing! Above are 21 unforgettable moments from the session. Here are ALL THE [...]
Big Wednesday – Waimea Bay
I think everyone knows I love me some Waimea Bay! Today looks to be pretty good over there and I am really missing it right about now. I tried to see it on the surfline cam and it is too busy- drats. I tried to call Sean Davey for a report and he didn’t answer [...]
Merry Christmas
Wishing you season’s greetings and Happy Holidays to all. Here is an image I really like from my recent Hawaii trip. It is Pipeline on a really good day. That is actually Jamie O’brien in the tube. I remember he was just owning it. Everyone else was getting scraps and he would score the perfect [...]
Valentine’s Waimea is back
There have been several requests for last season’s Waimea Bay session on Valentine’s Day (February 14, 2008). I have reposted this gallery and made your photos available one last time. If you want your photos, please order them as soon as you can or they may be gone forever. The gallery is huge- over 1300 [...]
Snow, TSA, Books…
Welcome home from Hawaii. It’s snowing. C’mon. Are you kidding? Snow? Really? Yes, snow. Right behind my house in the mountains. So close I could drive half an hour and touch it. I am freezing my ass off. I talked to a friend who is driving to Colorado to go snowboarding and got stuck in [...]
Aloha means…
Aloha means I am going home. Saying Aloha is more fun when you arrive. Today I am on a plane back to LA. While the rain made it less painful to go, it is never easy to get on the plane and say goodbye. I love shooting surf and perfect waves and Hawaii was kind [...]
Pipe Masters?
Well, I wonder what they are going to have to call it? The Ehukai Beach Masters? I am not saying that the surf is tiny. At several feet overhead, it isn’t. It’s just not what you want the last contest of the year to be. We all want huge waves. Life and death sets. I [...]
Eddie Opening ceremony
I went to the Eddie Opening ceremony this afternoon- begrudgingly! Why? Because Pipe was off it’s head, mental, insane, whatever you want to call it. I experimented all day with different angles and lenses and have some cool shots to show for it, but you’ll have to wait to see them. For now I [...]
Waimea Bay
Does this Waimea charger make his air drop? You will have to wait and see when the galleries load. This might take awhile because there are 1,200 photos! Ridiculous? Yes. Way too many photos, but I just couldn’t help myself. Waimea was good. Not great or epic, but just really good (BTW, I think people [...]
The Creature
Surf photographers that shoot in the water have lots of these photos. It’s when you are packing your water housing and you want to check that everything is firing (nothing worse than having problems once you are in the water!). So we click a few and get these odd images. Instead of deleting today’s version [...]
New Galleries posted!
We got your Galleries – Pipe, Sunset, and even Waimea right here! Let’s start with the epic day at Pipe which was on ‘Black Friday’ shopping day. I couldn’t think of a better place to be than at Pipe going off while the rest of the US is in WalMart! ha ha…This gallery includes the Aamion [...]
SUP at PIPE?
I was going through some of my Pipe shots (which I promise to share soon) and I remembered that there was this guy on an Stand Up Paddleboard charging (it really is an SUP, just click on the photo to see the close up- his paddle is in his bottom turn spray). I just thought [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanks giving out there everyone. I don’t feel like writing much so, today I leave you with one of those lame stories that you get on an email from one of your friends during the holidays. I might try to sneak a session during turkey time. Have a great day and get ready for [...]
Swell gossip…
It was flat today and it has been small lately. Everyone is playing the waiting game. Seems like a great time to gossip about upcoming swells. At the moment we have good reason. Looks like a nice couple of storms are brewing and this weekend could be epic, but it is still just a forecast. [...]
Michel Bourez wins Reef Pro
After exiting another perfect barrel, Michel Bourez enjoys the view of an empty Haleiwa set wave during the final seconds of the contest. With none of his competitors riding, the feeling is probably just starting to sink in- Oh my god I WON! Stoked! I couldn’t believe it. I was watching the Reef Hawaiian Pro [...]
My modeling career…
I showed up at Sunset this morning and found super clean conditions at the peak and all adjacent breaks. A gallery is coming soon. It will be listed as ‘Sunset’ although I was pointing the camera in every direction! Same goes for ‘Ehukai’, which will include Pupukea, Turkey Bay and on up into Rocky Rights. [...]
This is Bethany Hamilton…
This is Bethany Hamilton ripping a little wave out at Pupukea today. The thing is she broke a board, swam in, grabbed another board and went right back out and ripped it some more. Think about that for a moment. She SWAM in. Gathered two halfs of a broken board and went back out. Don’t [...]
Coco Ho surfs better than me…
I will say it again…’Coco Ho surfs better than me.’ Damn, it’s true. I mean I watched her heat today against reigning Haleiwa Pro champion Megan Abudo and she just finessed a difficult Haleiwa onshore peak a few feet overhead with tight turns, lots of speed and a beautiful cutback. Wow. I was impressed. She [...]
