Did a little dash across the border with Brenno and Nathan Dorrington. North wall was offshore and around two foot, but when we crossed over to south wall it was howling from the south. Totally different winds 1 km apart! We ended up doing a quick session and bailing.
hitting the road
brenno busting out
brenno busting out v2.0
james woods
My beach time has been severely reduced this month with a my day job taking preference due to financial considerations. No money, no honey! It does mean I have been getting back into wildlife photography a bit. These are my favourite two photos of the last few weeks.
I have always found the native hawk, the Pacific Baza (Aviceda subcristata) to be a reasonably rare around the Gold Coast.
White-plumed Honeyeater (Lichenostomus penicillatus) I shot out in the Brigalow Belt in the south-west of Queensland
Red-winged Parrot (Aprosmictus erythropterus) near Biloela
Wow I am still way back in June and it is now July. Time for everyone to get there tax returns done and get to Bali. See ya there! Though with the the recent run of east coast swell it is tempting to take the easy route and stay home.
zippers through Rainbow Bay
Winter sun
Solid Snapper, but not quite doing it
BIG Dbah
Greenmount had potential
Occy on a solid one
Hippo
more zippers at Kirra
Local at frothy Nusa Lembongan during May
I was standing on the beach shooting thinking to myself how bored I was and why I wasn’t getting a wave for myself. When I got home and actually checked some photos and found a few little gems. The Snapper crew were blowing up!
Damon Harvey making an appearance and totally blowing up like usual
Asher Pacey in the Winter sun
Ryan Hipwood
Clipper getting mad with the gopro
Seafood
A little bit of spray
Clipper mucking around withe gopro again
who doesnt watching Occy.
Asher Pacey slotted
Asher Pacey
Hipwood
Straddie from the last weekend going up on the website soon
Straddie from the last weekend going up on the website soon
Bali!!!
I have recently just returned from a two week stint in Bali and while you would have to be seriously strange not to have a good time, I did not achieve all my photographic goals. On the other hand I did end up with a couple of unexpected surprises such as Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta which has 10,000 people praying on a Friday and 200,000 after major Islam holidays. I could have spent all day there instead of the ten minutes I ended up with.
Istiqlal Mosque
If I had more time, you are allowed to shoot from the prayer broadcast tower.
Final shot I could grab before having to make a run for the airport
Gazlin busting out at Kuta
Scotty from Cali at Lembongan
Gazlin flying again
Went for a cruise to Medewi with local Muklis Anwar & Gazlin
Lakey Peak legend Dedi Gun showing the Kuta groms how to style
Some Lombok gold
Java hottie Maia v1.0
Maia v2.0
Maia v3.0
Lombok again
One worrd, pumping. It has been a really consistent last few months except for a week or two. A few huge days but mostly a fun 2-3 foot depending on the wind direction. A few images from the last week.
Nobbies at dawn
TOS 01
TOS 02 - Straddie = board graveyard
TOS 003 - wedge monster
TOS 04 - The Vasicek
TOS 05 - Ruben
TOS 06
TOS 07
TOS 08
TOS 9
TOS 10 - Dane
Wow, have I been slack on the blog thing! I have an uber blog coming this week, so stay tuned.Months and months of photos. Literally!
Spot X going into the big groyne at Kirra. This photo also won a top 5 place in the Coastalwatch website photo competition for the swell of the year so far.
Mick Fanning putting the foot down in a fast Kirra tube.
November has gone, but I am not sure where. A pretty average month all up with only a couple of good days around the gold coast, with strong onshores the rest of the time. Still OK for a wave, but I didn’t do much with the camera. As I am about to post the onshore winds still havent stopped for over a week now. There is always tomorrow.
The blog movie this time around is Restrepo., described as:
‘Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s year dug in with the Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan’s most strategically crucial valleys reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as the soldiers painfully push back the Taliban.’
I was really looking forward to this, as I prefer a good documentary to an average movie, but I think overall I would rate it as average to slightly disappointing. It never really covered anything more I hadn’t seen any previous documentaries about the war, except in the length of a movie. A bunch of guys sit around in the desert, getting shot at on a daily basis, and spending most of the time under fire trying to work out who or even where the attack is coming from. The movie never really took me inside Afghanistan or into the soldiers heads except at a very shallow depth.
Overall: 2/5
Noah Dean Fingal
Khan Thorne Fingal
Text book move Oney Anwar
Onshore Snapper 1
Tim McDonald busting *** up
Mitch Parko Onshore Snapper 2
Dru Adler Dredging onshore Snapper 3
Onshore Snapper 4
Judo Chop! Dbah end of the November
Volcom VQS
Dru Adler Volcom VQS
The unseasonable 2-3 foot swells keep rolling through, it all juts hinges on the tide and wind most days. Whether you have that freedom and time to find that perfect little beachie that will be gone the following day, forcing you to be constantly on the move looking for that little perfect bank.
Added to the daily confusion has been the death of Andy Irons, which has overshadowed the a 10th world title from Kelly Slater. I can never claim to have met Andy or even seen him surf in the flesh, but he seems to have had an effect on everyone he met. Bit of a shame I don’t have any photos worthy of such a legend.
People who no me might think it weird if I started doing movie reviews as I am known as hard to impress, but what the hell, I will see if I have the time to keep up it. First movie is Inception. Honestly I don’t know what the big deal is about this movie. I found it to be over-pretentious crap.I found the whole dream inside a dream inside a dream ad infinitum to wear thin pretty quickly. I have tried watching it 3 times and everytime is the same.
I need to come up with some kind of graphics maybe for ratings,but i give it a 2/10. Disagree? Feel free to comment.
Rusty rep Mitch at Dbah
Straddie booging
Some more boog action on Melbourne Cup day. Probably the best day so far this month.
Samba Mann at the Spit Melbourne Cup just before sundown. The ISO range of the Nikon D700 is wild!
The Spit again.
Currumbin beachie before a paddle-out at Snapper for Andy Irons
Adam Bennetts busting it out
Brenno Dorrington gouge.
Eddie Kelly floater
bust it up
Been some fun days around on the open beachies, nothing over 3 foot though. Just need to find the right bank to match the tide and wind.
Takkesh busting out at 25th Ave
Dru Adler busting it up at Pottsville
South Strad one fine morning
Dk ToS
Morning Stroll
Dru having some fun
Mikey tail gouge Pottsville
Takkesh Thorne 25th Ave
Naomi 25th
Dru Pottsville
Not epic straddie, but nice neverless
Takkesh again
