Winds

The right wind direction or lack of it, can make your day, Various line-ups from last fall....






Winds of flavor can make your day, Various line-ups from last fall....

Artificial Light

Surf flash photography isn't a new thing. flame was using flash in the early 80's. Tom Carey took it to the next level in the late 90's and into the new century. When i first got bit by the camera bug, i was obsessed with capturing the action with flash. the success rate is very low, but that makes even more rewarding when you do nail one. 5 moments of artificial light for your enjoyment...

Farrah Fawcett

Runs of three, but she is the one that hits home for me. How many of you, ah you know..... to her poster...i did cause i was a young grom with no porn. playboy was the shit and the internet was years away. farrah hung on my wall for 5 years.

RIP FARRAH

Lowers and backpacks

Got a call to do a product shoot at lowers today. The new quik backpacks. The groms that ride for quiksilver had their names embroidered on the pack, kinda cool. the nssa nationals was running all day.
i got there early to get good parking and took a walk on the low tide rocks and snapped a few....

Summer Bummer 2009

So far this summer has been a bummer. Very little sun, and chunky south swell. Lets hope july can come through with better conditions, but july is not known for producing clean conditions. we may have to wait for fall to get a decent barrel. a few images from last years summer...

ISD

Yesterday was international surf day. Respect the ocean, enjoy the ocean. Quiksilver put on a beach clean-up at bolsa chica. There was free food, sup demos, and pure family fun ....

round files

taking a break after surfing and shooting this past swell. going through the trash folder on the apple, thought about giving a new lease on life to a few moments from last winter...

Finally we have waves. A few spots of sun, shitty winds, but you can ride. I hooked up with timmy reyes and shaun ward at spot in la county. Timmy is home for spell before heading over to brazil...

June Gloom Forever

Man are we ever going to see the sun before 5 pm again?

Word on the street is that next week might have sun and surf...

some flash back moments of sun and surf......

chris frohoff

I ran into chris frohoff the other day. He is a fireman now, but in the 80's he was a top asp surfer. Chris made the finals of the pipe masters in 86. That makes for good stories to tell your grandkids when you get old

1986 Marui Offshore Pipeline Masters Champ: Derek Ho (HAW) Tom Carroll (AUS) Chris Frohoff (USA) Brian McNulty (USA)

Canada Tribe

Surfers are a tribal bunch. They have a code of travel that dates back to the early 1900’s. Surfers were often viewed as sub culture back then ( and up till the 90’s), they often banded into groups according to regions that they lived in.
A traveling code for surfers soon developed. You would lend your couch to a surfer from a different region in hopes that your next surf trip in to their region would be payed back in full, with a spot on a floor, an extra bed, and passing the wine.

This code is still alive to day. Ralph Bruhwiler came by for a pit stop crash on the couch on his way back to canada. He was on a surf trip in mexico, surfing some secret spots that cant be mention.

So next time im in canada and need a place to crash, i can ring him up and get a spot on the floor for some needed rest. see video below about the bears on the beach










FOR MORE ABOUT RALPH READ THIS
canada surfing bc surf raph sepp Bruhwiler


BEARS OH MY!

Scanners part 2 (pier pressure)

thanks to the turner family for the slides

here is an article from the times on the subject

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The past decade has not been kind to Orange County's piers

The now-abandoned Huntington Beach Pier stands as a testament to the destructiveness
of several storms in the 1980s that mercilessly battered those sturdy platforms of wood, cement and steel that stretch into the Pacific.

During a pounding by 30-foot waves two years ago, a 250-foot portion of the concrete pier was torn off and the rest so badly weakened that it was closed. The pier will finally be dismantled in the fall.

The 1988 storm also inflicted damage on the Newport Beach, Balboa and San Clemente piers, but not enough to close them.

In 1986, storm damage forced the temporary closure of the Seal Beach and Huntington Beach piers for repairs.

And three years earlier, a fierce storm caused major damage to the Huntington Beach, San Clemente and Seal Beach piers, tearing off portions of the platforms and uprooting the deep pilings. All three were closed months for repairs.

Huntington Beach plans to build a new pier that should be open to the public in 1992. "If we do it right, it should last us 100 years," Deputy City Administrator Jim Palin said.

In truth, none of the county's piers have lasted anywhere near 100 years.

Each pier has undergone extensive repairs and piling and platform replacements over the years. In fact, city officials say that there are no original materials left on any of the piers except Aliso Pier, which was built in 1972.

And even Aliso Pier was closed all of last year for renovation.

"Piers are much like the human body, where all the cells die and are replaced within seven years," San Clemente Marine Safety Capt. Lynn Hughes said.

D hump roots

dustin humphrey dropped by, he crashed on timmy's couch last night. d hump was visiting from his home in indo, he's in town promoting his new film and book he made with taylor steele. the movie is called castles in the sky. d hump is home grown huntington beach, starting his photography at golden west, shooting the turner's and local crew in the summer shore break and later exploring indo with ryan and timmy turner...... the rest is history...

check out this but from surfline on his opening in la......

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/hundreds-turn-out-for-sneak-preview-of-taylor-steeles-new-film-castles-in-the-sky_27267/

fire water part 2

same settings different day, im just waiting for better waves to see if i can improve on the subject matter.