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.

Wave Filled December

It's been a longtime since we've had a December this consistently good for surf in Santa Barbara.  We've had more back to back overhead swells, good conditions and the CDIP covered in yellow and orange blobs then we did all last Winter.  Here are some images from Monday at Rincon:

Kilian Garland

Bobby Martinez still ripping without a major sponsor's sticker on his board

Frank Curren

Kilian Garland locked in.

Conner Coffin

Rincon

Kilian Garland

Matt Pagan

Parker Coffin choosing his line

Ventura's Catherine Clark

Kilian Garland tube time

Kilian again on this inside drainer

Conner Coffin keeping it consistent

Another WNW Swell

The waves were pretty close to as good as they get in front of the house this weekend.  I shot this sequence of Greg Venable on Sunday, then ran back to the house to put the camera away, throw on my wettie and grab a board.  Sometimes participating takes precedent over documenting.

...and he made it out FYI

Surfline 'Welcome To Winter' slide show

Surfline ran my C-Street line up shot in their 'Welcome to Winter' slide show.  Slide #5.  The photo was taken Wednesday morning in Ventura.

WNW Swell

Rincon golden hour.

C-Street from above.

(Clockwise from Top Left) Ventura peak; Yadin Nicol, Rincon speedblur; Ventura lines; Brett Simpson, Rincon.

Goofy footer's day dream.  I shot this using my rear-view mirror so I could imagine it as a left point break.  

          

Little House Productions

Check out littlehousefilms.com for a portrait I took of filmmakers T.J. Barrack and Wes Brown in New York;  it's on their website in their 'company' section.  

RICHARD AVEDON Photographs 1946-2004

I attended the Avedon exhibit at the SFMOMA this past week.  It was a truly amazing collection of photographs by one of America's greatest portrait photographers. Shows like this remind you how impressive large prints in person really are and how much detail is lost in looking at these photographs in a book or online.  There are still a few days left, so don't miss this exhibit.  It is on display until November 29, 2009.  Here are a few favorites:

Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, 1955; gelatin silver print; courtesy The Richard Avedon Foundation; © 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

Bob Dylan, musician, Central Park, New York, February 10, 1965; © 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

Homage to Munkacsi, Carmen, Paris 1957; © 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

Boyd Fortin, Thirteen Year Old Rattlesnake Skinner, Sweetwater, Texas, March 10, 1979; © 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

Charles Chaplin leaving America, New York, September 13, 1952; © 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.

I saw the 'Back to the Future' DeLorean driving on the freeway in San Diego on Friday the 13th.  Classic.   

  "Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean? "

Looks like they've added some upgrades since 1985, like iPOD compatibility.

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros at Soho last night.  If you weren't a fan of this 10-piece folk-rock band before, seeing them live will make you one.  I haven't had that much fun at a concert in a while. Pick up their debut album, Up From Below and try to catch them on tour.

Pelican + Ship

Santa Monica

I had 20 minutes to kill before a business lunch in Santa Monica so I pulled out the camera and went for a walk. By the way, R + D Kitchen on Montana Avenue is one of my favorites. Great food, great design. Get the Rubenesque sandwich and a Chimay, you won't regret it.

Marin

Recent trip up to the Bay Area. I love Santa Barbara, but lots to miss about Marin. Mt. Tam, Marin Brew, Phoenix Lake, SF, The Buckeye, Blackie's Pasture, Sol Food, Point Reyes, Lake Tahoe day trips...

Kelly Slater

Some photos I took of Kelly Slater that I came across on my computer. I'm ready for some Winter swells!

West Beach Music Festival

West Beach Music Festival - taken with my Blackberry. I'm still finding sand everywhere after 3 days of music in a giant sandbox with a thousand + people.