Goodbye Winter
While we are all excited about summer swells and warm weather, let’s take a moment and enjoy the beauty of winter Blacks.
My Billabong XXL picks
It’s that time of the year again- The 10th Annual Billabong XXL! As a member of the voting committee, I am asked to pick in two categories: Ride of the Year and Monster Tube. The Biggest wave award is selected by judges who actually sit in a room with a tape measure and painstakingly figure [...]
The biggest Billabong XXL ever?
There is no doubt this has been one of the best surf seasons in decades, but in the short history of the Billabong XXL I would have to say this is THE best season for judging big waves. I can’t wait to see some of the finalists! Every year the Billbong XXL has a panel [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Billabong XXL update
Well the Big Wave hype is upon us with this winter expected to be El Nino big and powerful. I hope so. I received this update today from Billabong with a link to an insane video of Mid Season highlights mostly from down under. It’s our turn now. Let’s see if this big Pacific can [...]
Billabong XXL – my picks
So I sat down this beautiful Easter weekend and watched the videos/photos of the Billabong XXL. Although we didn’t get many XXL entries on this side of the planet (except for Mavericks), there were some whoppers to be had elsewhere- namely Tasmania and South Africa. So here are my picks with a brief explanation: Ride [...]
Waimea Bay shots
Here are the shots from Waimea Bay on Tuesday, December 2, 2008. Sorry for the delay, but my internet connection has been crawling lately. Must be that all the swell has everyone refreshing the buoy report constantly! I know I am. I shot from noon to dark and the gallery gets better and better as [...]
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 [...]
Secret Spot? Nope.
What? Where is this wave? Is this some secret island peeler? Yep. Sure is…about 40 years ago! That my readers is Pipe taken with a 50mm lens from the beach. It looks like some perfect fun point/beach surf, but it is the real deal. Pipe on a big west. Growing by the hour…The swell came [...]
Waimea Bay Classic Day
In my last post I talked about possibly bringing back some ‘old’ classic sessions and I decided to start with this one- Waimea Bay, February 2006. This is a huge gallery with over 900 photos of one of the best days I have seen at Waimea in a long time. There were closeout sets and [...]
