clouds in tavarua

tavarua. fiji. april 2011

Hasselblad snapshots

Below is a series of 6 photos I shot on my Hasselblad from my last trip to Half Moon Bay with Derek Dunfee and from New York last September.  I'm kind of a photo nerd and froth out on always shooting in different mediums and formats dependant on the situation..It's not so great for the simplistic approach or keeping my camera bag light, but whats a couple extra lb's on your back when each moment is so unique to itself.  On the trip to Half moon bay I brought a digital camera for the action, a hasselblad for lineups, lifestyle, and whatever else crossed our paths and a pocket point and shoot for those inbetween moments..seems like a lot, but at the very least it keeps me entertained and keeps me shooting...The photos from NY were taken on our last day as Jenna and I were walking around the town seeing the city...Theres something I find interesting about the film I get back and what I choose to shoot when there's only 12 images in a roll...

skateboard film

melon grab

happy mistake

skateboard

OB pier

I've been shooting a lot of film lately.  It makes me slow down and think about each image a bit more than when shooting digitally. As bad as it sounds, its the truth.  Above are a couple photos I shot on film after shooting some skateboard photos digitally at the OB skatepark.

couple more random scans

boardroom

laughs

noosa

watts

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

Indonesia on film

While I was in Indonesia, I brought along my Hasselblad with me to shoot a bit of film.  I found after shooting so many digital images on the trip, they all start to look the same...Raw this and DNG that, it is refreshing to have a much greater tonality straight out of the camera and to see images with depth rather than the "neutral" digital images that need a lot of time in photoshop to look good.  Here are a few scans from the trip..more to come later

airport

boats

left

locals 1

locals 2

Congrats Steph!

Just wanted to say congrats to Stephanie Gilmore for winning the Roxy pro contest...She not only rips, she is a fellow Hassy shooter!

steph

hasselblad

Chris Christenson

Earlier in the year I was fortunate enough to check out Christensons shop just after he had retrofitted his walls with his WW1 submarine camo.  Here's a few pics that I recently came across and thought they were cool.  You can check his boards out at 
http://christensonsurfboards.com/

the shaping bay

proof they work

a new hull

the man himself