I love this shot above. It really shows what goes on behind the rock and you can see the wave sucking out while the guys in the barrel and the previous wave is just hitting the rocks getting ready to rebound and smash into the wave with the surfer behind it. You can purchase a copy of this shot from my shop click here

Jarrah Tutton seq-4

Jarrah Tutton almost took my head off with the sequence above … I think I’ll have to start wearing my Gath helmet.

Check out more of the photos from the session below

I hooked up with Samantha Cornish to try and get a few water shots.

Sam has been around for what seems like years on the Pro tour and is currently rated 6th on the ASP Womens’s WCT.
It seems pretty crazy that she doesnt have a sponsor??
She really knew how to work the camera , and even though the waves were tiny she would line the camera up and smack the lip right in front of me ..almost decapitating me a few times..

Sam Cornish flys of the lip at Rainbow Bay

Surf Coach Dave Davidson owner manager of the Gold Coast Surfing Centre based at Rainbow Bay was out there with Galey mucking around on the Surf School Boards.

Huge storms are circling as I write this which is pretty normal for this time of year.
Hope fully there will be a bump in the swell for tomorow as a result.

The waves were fat and getting fatter with the incoming tide…so it was a bit of a shocker . I still managed to get a few interesting shots check them out below.

Samantha Cornish smooth little cutback in tiny waves

Well… what I did, I jumped on the fee city circle tram and did a few laps of the CBD …. jumping off the tram every time I saw something I thought looked interesting enough to photograph!!

Funnily enough my thoughts of what melbourne was like previously all were images of a rain soaked town.

But the weather on the weekend was absolutely fantastic and sunny….

i tried to put a little artistic value in to some of the pics by converting them to Black and white.

Except for the shots of Queen Victoria markets where I felt the photo’s may have lost a little if they werent in colour..

There was no surf to speak of but the water was crystal clear and the light was great So I found a quiet little beach and swam out to take a few shots .

I was only out there for around 20 minutes and had already scored some great pics, when two dolphins came by and caught a wave either side of me.

I managed to get this shot above. I was shooting with a fisheye ….its hard to tell by the photo but he was only about 1-2 metres away from me

Aquatic Blue Charters boat the ‘Whale Watcher’ from Tweed Heads was out amongst the action again and Tony (the skipper) used his wealth of experience to get some great angles for us to view the incredible show of at least 5-6 pods of whales breaching and playing ……….

check these great shots from the day

Tony and Carol Hunt of Aqautic Blue Charters are old hands at the ‘whale watching’ Experience, having worked out of Port Macqaurie for many years.

With there new boat the ‘Whale Watcher’ now based out of Tweed Heads on the Southern Gold Coast, Tony and Carol are bringing people closer to those magnificent animals of the Ocean………………The Humpback whales.

I was lucky enough to go along on one of their charters recently and scored some great shots.

In fact a few days at the very beginning of the month were all-time .
I photographed Mick Fanning get a sixteen second tube one morning, There were plenty of video cameras on the beach, so no doubt you’ll see it in upcoming releases.

I myself scored many classic photos and here are few of them fo you to check out.

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