Spanish surfing adventure

Surfer Magazine recently put up a web gallery of a portion of our adventures through France, Spain, and Amsterdam...I owe a big thank you to Vans and Joel for inviting me on the trip to hang and document the surfing and lifestyle around the Salinas Duct Tape Invitational.
You can check the rest out here:

http://www.surfermag.com/photos/summer-in-europe/

Santa Cruz Duct Tape Invitational

Last week I had the pleasure of spending 5 days in Santa Cruz with some of the worlds best longboarders and happened to luck into some great waves too!  Below is a link to a gallery that Surfer put up with my images from the event.  I owe a big thank you to the guys at Surfer for posting the images along with Joel, Scott, and Nolan for inviting me and the rest of the Vans crew!  See you in Spain!!!

You can read the words here:

http://www.surfermag.com/features/alex-knost-wins-joel-tudor-duct-tape-invitational/

And see the photos here:

http://www.surfermag.com/photos/duct-tape-invitational/

a couple Hawaii snapshots

Tom Curren at Sunset

Kelly and Shane at the Eddie Ceremony

Kelly and Wassel closing the circle

KP moments after he lost the Pipe contest

Pipeline

training

I am home.  Home is where I am.  It is nice.  It is great.  It is rainy, it is cold, but I couldn't be happier.  I had a great time in Hawaii.  Spent nearly 3 1/2 weeks posted up on the North Shore working on a couple of different projects including an ad campaign for Dragon Eyewear, Bloomingdales, and editorial work for Surfer.  It was a busy couple of weeks of shooting, but I had a blast doing it. Now it is time to sit down and edit all the work I shot from Hawaii.  First stop this morning was dropping off the film from the trip and going through the digital images one by one...Above are a couple snapshots from the trip that caught my attention that are slightly off from what the mags may be looking for, but that doesn't mean there isn't something to them that catches my attention and share my view of the North Shore 2010.

Joel Tudor in San Diego

2005

2 halfframe photos and a hassy shot

dane unpacking boards in nicaragua june 2010

burch and haffey in between surfs at malibu june 2010

joel riding the nose at malibu june 2010

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!

Video test

This is my first attempt at filming surfing with my Canon 7D camera.  Joel and I shot a lot together and this morning, I thought it would be cool to video a few waves...Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c1ZfdWqJ7A

Joel Tudor/Vans Window display

Window Display

Changing room