Yep, it's stormy here.

But I'm heading to Hawaii in the morning and the Haleiwa weather report is a balmy 83 degrees.  Goodbye rain, hail, thunder and lightning, at least for a little while.

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Yadin Nicol fins out blast (yes, he landed it).Classic bottom-turn

Aaron Ernst in the green room.

Speed blur

Eat, Surf, Shoot Photos, Eat, Sleep, Repeat

(clockwise from top left)  Fins free; Walking back; Evening tube time; Sam Regan getting vertical backside; Nobody surfs Rincon backside as well as Bobby Martinez.

Yes, this is California in January.

Kelly Slater

Slater surfing one of his potato chip sized boards.

Dogs Love Sticks

Rincon From Above

I went for a little hike to get this bird's eye perspective of Rincon.

Rincon looks so peaceful from the top of a mountain that you almost forget how crowded it is down below and all the idiots people dropping in (see below).

More waves

El Nino is exhausting amazing...Just to be clear, I'm not complaining. 

Sunset

Santa Barbara. This is straight out of my camera, no retouching.

Surfline 'More West Swell Hits' slideshow

Surfline ran one of my shots of Conner Coffin in their 'More West Swell Hits' slideshow.  Conner has evolved from a grom to keep an eye on, to a well deserved place at center stage.

Pinhole Panoramic - Double Exposure

I took this with a plastic panoramic pinhole camera at Rincon. It's a double exposure looking North on the left and looking south on the right.

Picture-in-Picture

John R. Goodman captured the photo on the left of me swimming, taking some water shots of Spencer Regan.  The photo on the right is that same moment from my perspective.