Carlsbad Campground Session

Another injury?!? has kept me drydocked for a few days, but it hasn't kept me from heading down to the beach to shoot some high tide evening bowls the past few nights. Also had some time to experiment with different editing techniques, in this case trying to mimic cross-processed film. It is a different look, not supposed to be very realistic looking, but I like the way these came out.






This last one is not cross-processed, just a slow shutter speed pan of a wave washing back to the ocean, the golden color comes from the reflection of sunlight.

Nice evening at the beach tonight, combined with a nice sunset, nice swell, and nice conditions. There haven't been many big swells this winter, but there have been a number of smaller, super clean days with fun size surf and perfect conditions.

This one is actually from Beacon's in Encinitas. The surf wasn't anything spectacular, but the sky was amazing and resembled a big whitewater coming overhead.

Yes Brett you are worthy of the blog!
I won't go into detail, but we basically lived like kings down in mainland mex for a week for Brett's bachelor party. Waves, boats, snorkling, fishing, whales, bocce ball, infinity pools, pool tables, tequila and 42,000 pacificos all went down this week.

Here are some shots that I took from a swim out at Ponto the other evening. The conditions were perfect this day, although 9 out of 10 waves were closeouts, every once in a while a perfect one came spinning through with no takers. Where was everyone??? Some of these I was experimenting with slower shutter speeds that create more of a look of a painting rather than a photograph. Midway through my swim a pod of dolphins came through, I got one of them mid-jump through the back of a set wave. I was hoping that he wouldn't land on my head.

Merry Christmas!
This was a quick cold session at Zuma Beach on the drive north to Ventura on Christmas Eve. It was rainy and stormy the whole drive up, when we took the coast highway up through Malibu we could see perfect little south windswell bumps with a cold offshore wind blowing. Zuma was 1-2 feet and perfect shape, too small for surfing, but nice conditions to go for a quick bodysurf and take some shots. There was not much light out, so I was playing around with slower shutter speeds and got this shot below that I liked. Rather than freezing the action quickly, this allows the lip and wave to blur across the frame and create a different look.

Oceanside Harbor

Here are a few photos from a recent outing to the harbor in Oceanside. Pretty cold this evening, a storm has just come through and was blowing out as I took these.

Bros

Matt and Jake came down for a few days to sample the waves, women and tacos of San Diego. Unfortunately, the North Pacific storm track decided to drop down and visit as well. Not to be the type to sit around indoors, we got out into some of the most windy, stormy conditions I have ever witnessed, let alone paddled out in. We had a few good survival surfing sessions, then got a few fun waves once the storm passed (pictured).

Walking up the Beacons Trail

Bird, knocking the top off.

And again wrapping the roundhouse.