02.05.2010

So I am just about to land back in San Diego after spending the past five days on the island of Oahu working on an upcoming ad campaign. The trip was interesting. We had crazy weather with 15 mph winds all day, rain and clouds which really made photographing challenging. But we ended up getting some really cool stuff. I am pretty happy that with this last minute trip we were able to walk away with some images that can be used for the next couple months until I head to the carribean to start a new campaign. I would like to once again thanks Cody and Lindy for trusting all my semi crazy ideas to make thus all possible. I will be updating my blog within the next couple weeks with images from the shoot as well as a little video.

New Year!

I probably should apologize for not posting a blog entry for about three weeks or so..... These last couple weeks have been so crazy. California has seen the most rain it has gotten in years, my office flooded, I was stuck in a studio shooting sandals and now I am off to Hawaii for a week to work on a new ad campaign. So that was the short version. Here is how my last couple weeks have really gone. I have been getting up for the past two or three weeks at about 6am to hunt for surf. It is hard. Hit and miss with getting good waves and I have been missing this year. Oh well. I finally got the studio up and running and minus the small river I had during "the white squall" everything is ok. Last week was spent in a dark warm place photographing sandals with the guys at Libre Design for Reef. We shot some really cool stuff and although time consuming I had a great time. This week was filled with meetings (coffee with Cole Barash, meetings with Libre and Aframe, meetings with Spy Optic and Reef and now I am just editing images for an upcoming Surfing Magazine article). Next up is packing my bags for Hawaii where I will be spending the week shooting Alana Blanchard for an new ad campaign as well as hooking up with a couple other guys too.

New Business Cards

So after all the hype I was trying to create regarding a new look a while back has finally paid off. As many of you have seen my updated website I also wanted to show you the amazing business cards Libre Design out of Encinitas designed for me. I am so excited and proud to give these out. Let me know what you think.....

Alana Blanchard

So while in Hawaii I had an opportunity to work with Alana Blanchard. She is a young up and coming female surfer from Kauai. She is an amazing surfer and competed on the WCT for women this year. I have spent some time with her and her family in the past in Europe as well as at there house in Kauai. Above are a couple images I shot in about 10 minutes I had before she headed to town to hang out with some of her friends. She is easy to work with as you can see in the images above. So I am currently working on opening a small office space in Encinitas where I can meet with clients and possibly sell prints. I will post some images of the space and post the address so you can stop by if your in the area!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all!

Mahalo Hawaii

So I just finished up with another two week stint on the north shore were I captured what was said to be the best image of Mick Fanning celebrating his world title. I have so much stuff to do, work on, and think about in the next couple days. I will update this as soon as I have time to breath. Until then....

Aloha

So I just returned home today after a two week stint on the North Shore of Oahu. Normally the North Shore is a cake walk having crystal clear water, sunny skies, and light winds. This trip on the other hand had brown water from all the rivers breaking open, bad winds, and cloudy skies. I worked hard though and nailed some really cool photos for an coming coming Reef catalog. Also while I was there I worked on a little personal project shoot portraits of the top pros in a little studio I built. Things went well but I didn't get everyone I wanted to get. While I was there I also nailed down three more athletes for the Famous campaign. It went great as well and those ads should be out within the next couple months. I had time to work on some surf culture stuff for my personal book as well, but not as much as I would have liked.


So with that being said, I will more that likely be heading back over to the North Shore to nail down more personal work as well as document my good friend Mick Fanning hopefully winning the world title! I have so much going on the next week or so until I head back over to Hawaii.

I will update with more images that I shot!