Paudies Photoblog

How’s that chunky end section!

Yummy

The Dark Side of The Lens

A few mates finished building a mini ramp in time for a huge birthday party up the coast.
Happy Birthday Rich, it’s a bit late but no matter.

The last piece of ply went on just as the sun was setting so we had to resort to alternative light sources.

I guess Doolin point is a legitimate wave after all.

I’d forgotten about this session.

D-bomb Conway.

The petition is done with I think. But there’s still time to get a written objection in to Clare County Council referencing the Planning Number: 10/8006, best before 13th August. It’ll only cost you a stamp.

Planning Section,

Clare County Council,
New Road,
Ennis

Memories from a recent Bundy trip

Charts eh? Why the hell do we bother looking at them.

We arrived at 0600 to find one foot dribblers barely making it across the reef.
3.5m swell my ass.

It slowly, slowly started to pickup.

I shot land for a while, stoked on my new video buzz.

Dylan Buckley, he got deeper but the shot wasn’t as nice. Check out those hills.

There was a few crew around, but not the expected hoards.

Andy Kilfeather, he was pulling way crazier shit but I always managed not to catch it. Not used to these tricky spongers.

Andy K, before it went to shit

Not quite empty if you look closely.

Not too sure of this fellas name again, any ideas?

On the second tide I watched a lone sponge have two six foot sets to himself before jumping straight into my suit.

Bit of a swim out, but I had the last set burned into my mind making me swim that bit faster.

One smaller set comes through and I got two alright hook ups.

Then …

nothing …

Ten minutes of  nothing.

Twenty minutes of nothing.

The wind starts picking up.

Our epic hollow reef break starts doing its best impression of Ireland’s worst onshore beach break.

Bugger.

One named Peter one named Paul … … and one named Pamela

Mad looking thing up at my folks place in LA.

This is why I live in the countryside and not the city.

This is my back garden for the past few sunny weeks.

They’re all fairly similar but I think each photo has something different going on.

Got to love the f1.8

It’s weird what humans find attractive.

There’s something about the lip of this wave that just looks brilliant to me.

We seem to like simple, smooth structures.

If you were to graph the lip, the equation would be a nice simple one. Smooth, uninterrupted, no jagged lines.

The fact that Dylan has taken all the energy from the drop and is about to uncoil and race down the line.