Reef Rd Surf Session

Hurricane Earl brought a decent swell to the east coast this past week. My friend Keith convinced me to wake up extremely early and head out. After being disappointed by the local break at Spanish River, we headed up coast to Reef Rd. The break is just north of The Breakers Hotel in West Palm Beach. The surf was pretty clean with some chest high sets. One thing that sucks about shooting surf early in the morning on the east coast is the the glare that you'll get off the water. I try to shoot at an angle away from the sun, but sometimes the surfer will take the wave back to the sun. I usually keep the photos in color, but this time processed them in black and white. Till the next hurricane.....

A Weekend in Melbourne

o it's the middle of July and there's surf. Why not head up coast right? I can admit that catching a wave alludes me. It's going to happen though. I am in training. At least that's what I tell myself.

Surfing is one of those things that I would love to photograph more of when I have a nice telephoto lens or underwater housing. For this trip I primarily used a Canon AE-1 with an old manual focus 300mm 5.6 lens. I explained to my buddy's that I was with that shooting surf with the telephoto manual focus lens was like a video game. It was really tough to focus. It's been a while since I have shot film and my AE-1 tends to have some light leaks that give it an interesting look.

My friend Leo

The local Mexican spot Da Kine Diego's

I also shot some digitally with the cheapy Nikon 75-300mm lens. The lens is super soft, but compared to the AE-1, my Nikon D300 shoots a lot quicker.

My friend Keith, whose house we stayed at.

Keith always jokes with me that I'll be out on on the beach shooting surf, but whenever he gets a sick wave I'll be off taking pictures of something on the beach or the landscape.The first one reminds me of how captivating the beach can be when you are so young.

After the BLORR show on Saturday, we headed over to someone's house for some pool.