fold out cover of Kelly Slater in New Surfer Mag

Kelly at Restaurants. July 2011

Surfer Magazine September 2011

Cover of Kelly Slater from our April trip to Tavarua.  We flew down there for 2 1/2 days and this was shot on the first day of our trip.  I went from the airport straight to the lineup at Cloudbreak.  Never been there before and it was quite a memorable day.

Rob Machado Hurley ad photographed at Oceanside in June

Same day as the photo above but this image was held for editorial for the magazine.  Rob Gilley shot an amazing image about 10 years ago in Oceanside and I've always wanted to shoot in light like that.  This day Rob had gotten home at 2am from a portrait shoot in Los Angeles and after 3 hours of sleep I was at his door picking him up.  We surfed from around 5:45-7:30.  It was really cold, but the light was as good as light gets.  Rob was really cool about getting up early and knew that this day was going to be a special one when we checked the buoys.

This day was a fun day at lowers, nothing epic, just rippable and clean.  Kinda cloudy actually.  While Dane and I were shooting, Kelly came down and surfed too.  Walking back to the car at the end of the day I couldn't resist but snap this photo of the two of them on the tracks.

Taylor Knox ad for Dragon shot at Backdoor in Hawaii this year

Kelly Slater photographed for Quiksilver Wetsuits in Santa Barbara in February of this year.

This months issue of Surfer Magazine just came out and had a collection of photos that I was lucky enough to shoot and be a part of..It's always cool to see your images printed in the magazine and not just on a computer screen..It's on the newsstands now..check it out!

On the Board cover_Alex Knost

I just got the new On The Board mag in the mail yesterday and to my surprise was a photo that Alex and I shot together while in Santa Cruz in January for the Duct Tape Invitational on the Cover!  This was taken the first day I was shooting with my new 35mm lens...I owe a big thank you to Mio and the crew at OTB, Alex for catching the wave and doing his thing, as well as Scott, Joel and the crew at Vans for allowing me to come up and shoot for the week!!!

March 2011 Surfer Mag cover!!

This months cover of Surfer Magazine is a photo I shot of Alex Gray at Log Cabins this past winter in Hawaii!!!  The day started off slow at Rocky Point, than around 11the wind came on strong onshore.  My girlfriend and I went on a bikeride to foodland to get lunch and decided to check the waves on the way back to Rocky Point.  The wind had switched and it was pumping!  6-8 feet with a couple bigger sets and because of the on and off again rains, the water was a deep blue.  I was going back and forth between shooting film and digital.  This wave that Alex caught was one of the most perfect waves I have ever seen break there and luckily he rode it with ease.  Below is the original photo, the cover, and a video of the wave...Check it out!  Thanks to the guys at Surfer for running my image, Alex for catching the wave, and Jenna for hanging it out on the beach while it rained that afternoon!!

On The Board Cover

Japanese Magazine On The Board's newest issue shows a photo that Joel Tudor and I shot together as well as a 10 page story on a trip we did to Mexico last year!

Friends covers

My good friend, teacher and mentor Chris Orwig (www.chrisorwig.com) shot the cover of this months Triathlete Magazine.  I went on his blog to check it out and saw that he had set both of our covers up at the newsstand...Check it out!

Surfin Life Japan Cover of Machado!

Surfer April 2010 Cover

Last month I wrote about doing a quick strike mission down to Cabo to escape the rains and bad weather of Southern California.  As it turns out one of the photos I shot of Tanner G, ended up on the cover of the new issue of Surfer!  I am really stoked!!!  It was Tanners first cover of any Magazine..Check this clip of his reaction!!!

http://surfermag.com/av/flash/behind_the_april_2010_cover_with_tanner_gudauskas/

Chris Del Moro on the cover of Slide Magazine

Chris Del Moro photographed in Central America for the cover of Slide Magazine

February 2010 Surfer Mag tearsheets

February 2010 Surfer Mag cover

Grant Ellis and I went down to Nicaragua earlier in the year to shoot photos of Kolohe Andino and Julian Wilson while they filmed for "Scratching the Surface."  Inside this issue we shot a 6 spread feature and the cover...I will upload the inside story as soon as I get it...For now, this is a sneak peak at the cover.  Grant shot the land photo and I shot the water shot!

San Diego Magazine January 2010 cover shoot

San Diego Magazine does an annual "50 People to watch" issue.  Without knowing, a couple of months ago my girlfriend emailed there editors about Derek Dunfee and his achievement with winning Billabongs XXL last year and they responded back with wanting to put him in the magazine as one to watch along with putting his mug on the cover!  We went through a number of images that we had shot and the magazine decided it would be most fitting to have a portrait of Derek on the cover with San Diego in the background.  After discussing with Derek we wanted to make it look natural and shoot it at his homebreak of Windansea.  The portrait images that were ended up using were shot the day we got home from a strike mission up to Mavericks in November.  As tired as we were, we knew the light was going to be good and had to meet a deadline.  Here are a few of the options they had for the cover and the one they decided to go with.  I owe a very big thank you to Jenna for making this all happen, Lisa Williams at San Diego Magazine for being so cool and easy to work, and Derek.  Thank you!

Dereks winning XXL wave

Puerto 2007

Puerto 2007

Windansea Nov  2009

Windansea Nov 2009

Windansea Nov 2009 (selected)