Paudies Photoblog

From A Day in 2007.

Man I kept some awful shots back then.

The ocean has some set of lungs on it.

Here it is trying it’s hardest to blow Lowey over.

That’s Mickey filming their Power of Three movie in the water. It’s out in next months Carve (as far as I know) and should be crazy good if last years video is anything to go by.

is boring as hell.

Every punter who goes to the cliff gets a shot like this but phsio says stay out of the water so I just shot a handful before heading to more accesible locations.

I really have to get a channel lens. Saving starts now for that 85mm. Or I might just get the nifty fifty right now.

Anyway my latest exercises are to stop going to the loo, which is handy because I do that pretty much all the time.

Well actually I have to clench my insides and that’s how the physio described it, gross but kinda funny. 

So we headed off in a crazy big convoy to find some normal sized waves. Which turned out to be a good bit bigger than normal.

It was pretty setty but a few waves opened up for the brave souls who danced across the absolutely horrible death reef.  Seriously the nastiest rock ever.

I thought I had more to say but my mind’s gone blank.

Hope you got waves over the weekend.

Well if there were tears, they’d be tears of joy for pretty light.

On a completely non-Smashing Pumpkins related note, 

I often find myself in the impact zone watching a perfect clean up set roll through on the outside usually accompanied by some phenomenal surfing. This happens an awful lot at Crab. Crab is definitely my favourite wave to shoot, it’s rarely worth the swim for me, but I have gotten some gems out there, most of the photos of good rights are from Crab. 

Nevertheless it’s probably the place I have shot most frequently and as a result I’m very comfortable out there though. I’ve gotten to know the wave fairly well and I’m pretty confident of being able to hook up with riders in the right place for at least some the waves. This means being right inside in the impact zone and as a result I always got smashed by the clean up sets. Which means I miss absolutely smokers like damo in a seriously heavy shack.

But sitting on the inside is usually worth it as well. This was my first DPS, so stoked on it still.

On another unrelated note the tv show The Wire, is bloody awesome.

Calexico – Alone Again Or

Great Song

Here’s some more shots from my trip north a few weeks ago.

Metallica Pete, this guy really knows the wave well.

Pity about the droplets, I wonder did I cause them?

There's no way he made it out of this, but looks cool anyway.

Love the colours in this one.

Blountys Superman impression.

Gabe Davies is pretty much a level above any surfer I’ve ever been in the water with. He made an insane amount of barrels this day. He’s one of the guys able to setup for the barrel while popping up, on his last wave he did this right beside me, here he is setting up.

Unfortunately I didn’t kick hard enough (it was the end of my session too) and I missed the killer shot, ah well. That’s water photography for ya.

Here’s two shots of one of the local boys I had a quick chat with out there, anyone got a name or contact for this guy?

I’ll finish with another of those in the waves shots, pity about the bubbles.