It is always god to get a good wave right at sunset to come in on.
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Category Archives: Photography
These are posts that are image in nature and not so much about subject.
Crappy Camera + Weird Lighting =
Cool Photo
I am always trying crappy, lo-fi cameras. They have a way of screwing up in visually interesting ways. With film, I would always push reciprocity failure. With digital, really cheap lenses are my favorite. With light leaks, color shifts and grain, you can create some neat stuff.
Just as the sun cracked the horizon, a small wedge peak popped up. Add a really awful camera and you have a cool photo.
This shot, for example, I love. This is not something you would see with the natural eye. and nothing you could replicate with an Instagram filter or photoshop manipulation. This is just straight up lo-fi and it is stunning.
Wipeout of the Week:: Tim Saunders
Got endless supply of the Wee Lad taking lickings. He’s a good sport and makes more than he misses. But these frozen moments are entertainment unto themselves.
Vince Boulanger
Vince Boulanger is a great surfer.
He comes from my old stomping grounds of Ocean City, MD and he loves to skate — a few things that sound good in my book. Plus he’s a goofy. We hooked up a long time ago and got some shots. Because of my schedule, we only had two quick shoots. Neither the weather nor the waves cooperated, even though we were on the North Shore of Oahu in December. But thanks mostly to Vince’s skills, we got some sick stuff. Enjoy.
Wipeout of the Week:: Dustin Barca
Barca is gnarley. Trying to stay on at Pipe despite the writing on the wall. Hero!
Wipeout of the Week:: Kamua Swain
Good old Kamua. He loves a surf. A life-long frother. He has skills too. But as Skeets says, “Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.” In this case, Kamua Swain is getting gotten by the bear, or more specifically, a solid eight foot wall of sand. Check out the horrible lumps, bumps and ripples. As Freeman says, “We got a word for that. Lousy.”
Ocean City Barrels
The 48th Street Zone. Sunset, November 2004.
Xon Yule Zane :: XYZ Surfboards
Creative Guy Spotlight on Xon Zane
Zon shapes a good surfboard and has some great ideas about surfing and what to do on a wave. If you are in the Mid-Atlantic and need a good custom surf racing board, give Xon a ring. Or if you want to see if the left towards the jetty can be fun, head down there and watch the XYZ show.
Making the most of anything is one of Xon's best surfing talents. He seems to be doing way more fun stuff than most people. Backside Rotator at Ocean City Inlet.
Make it or not, still images of Xon's surfing turn into concrete evidence that Xon is trying some new stuff.
Foam mower, artist, surfer, dad. Zon at work in the creative creatio room, creating some creative new creations.
This shit is supposed to be fun
Lighten up Francis.
Most people start surfing because they are near the ocean and it is fun to play in the ocean. As we grow older and experience shows us all of the cool things we can do and learn from the ocean, the availability of having fun in the ocean grows. You can bodysurf the shore break. You can longboard small perfect waves. You can tow into big bombs. You can drop in on your friends. You can heckle beginners. You can ride switch stance into closeouts. You can take all your gear and travel to strange places to surf really fun waves with new friends.
At some point you encounter people who’s main goal is to be the best. At great cost to your fun. They take themselves and their surfing very seriously. A lot of the girls you will run into in the surf have that attitude. A lot of Brazilians too. And those people make me want to drop in on them everytime and pull my trunks down and moon them, everytime. Until they lighten up.
Next time there is really good surf, and the crowds are heavy and the vibe is full-on serious, go rent a beater and drop in on everyone and pull into tubes and laugh like you are mental. See who gets pissed off and who laughs with you. Good money says the person who laughs with you would be a better friend.
Monkey Love
One of my favorite things about Indonesia is the animals. I love monkeys. To be walking around minding your own business and see a monkey is just awesome to me.
Mmmmmm, macaque.
We walked into the Monkey Forest and a Euro tourist was cracking me up. He was talking to his family—a wife and two small children—about how, “Everyone loves macaque.” “Touch Macaque!”