Paudies Photoblog

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

So I had a go at trying to edit my own video for once.

Took a good twenty minutes to get this together, and it was only an eight second clip.
But it’s another step along the road towards an Oscar.

It’s Shane o’Connor again, a little unlucky this time, but it’s a nice wave so I thought I’d share.
Let me know if there’s any noticeable difference in Quality for you.
And what you think of the editing. A bit heavy handed with the contrast I reckon.

Shane O’Connor Part II from Paudie Scanlon on Vimeo.

Mad looking thing up at my folks place in LA.

Shane O’Connor on his brand new DH board.
Goes like a dream apparently.
Shaper is Tom Doidge-Harrison in Lahinch.

Hey all, there’s a proposed new pier that could potentially damage one of the best waves in Ireland (Crab Island in Doolin),  even if you’re not from Ireland your support on this matter would be appreciated. If anything it would help to show that this wave has a worldwide reputation with lots of potential tourist euros associated with it.

Anyway there’s a petition here, http://www.petitiononline.com/Doolin10/petition.html, it’ll only take a few seconds and it’ll help save a world class wave.

The petition isn’t to block the construction of the pier at all just redesign it so it won’t have as much of an impact on the wave.

A reminder of what you’re trying to save.

By the way Issue 7 of Tonnta should be in your local shop now.

So online competition and voting are all the rage these days and Taylor Steele has decided to tick that box on his how-to-make-surf-movie to do list.

http://innersection.tv is the site that is doing that for him.

Surfers upload a 2-3 minute clip and the public narrows it down to a top 5, these surfers and their filmers get some cash to go and make a section for Taylors new movie. I missed the first contest completely, only found the site a few days before the second contest closed and now that the third contest has started I thought I’d share it with you good people.

Check it out, there’s a good mix of known and unknown surfers there and it should kill at least an hour of your time.

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.

I thought movie scripts have to go through a few stages of development and approval before they get the go ahead?

Where is the quality control.

You rarely hear bad music on the radio. Fair enough it mightn’t be ground breaking. But the people can usually sing and play their instruments.

I thought Jake Gyllenhaal and Ben Kingsley were good actors? He’s a Sir for crying out loud.
How can the two of them be so bad, even if the dialogue is atrocious surely they know how to actually act? Even a little?

A dagger that turns back time. How appropriate, I would like the last two hours back please.

Do not go see this movie.