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The swell keeps coming … and coming. More photos from the Super Bank and Snapper Rocks to Kirra April 20th

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:20:35 +0000

The swell keeps hanging around… It seems like the waves havent got under 3 feet for over 2 months now.
There were great waves over the weekend . I didnt pick up the camera on the weekend but had a great surf at Duranbah and surprised myself by picking up a few nice peaks in the school holiday crowd.
Shaun Harington was out there ripping on an old brown board. I saw him on one wave, backdoor the peak taking off pigdogging goofy (switchfoot) and then switch foot back, while in the tube and come sailing out in his normal stance … natural. Nice move Hazza!!
That one wave had me wishing I had my water rig out there…
Monday,this morning a brand new swell arrived this from the south.
Along with it came 20 knot winds.
I got down there pretty early, to check it out. Its been a while since Ive shot anything from the water so I was pretty keen to go for a swim. Unfortunately the conditions were less than ideal for water shots.
Duranbah was huge and out of control…The wind was howling offshore and the sweep was horrendous.
Shooting from the water is always a hit and miss situation and the odds were I would only score a few good ones with a 2 hour swim, so I opted for land based photos.
I shot 200-300 pics (the beauty of digital) These are the pick of them. If you see a photo of yourself here, or you were out surfing I may have a photo of you. If you think this is the case then contact me by clicking here.

Photos from Snapper Rocks, Greenmount, Kirra February 3rd 2009

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:31:26 +0000

I finally managed to get in the water at Snapper on Tuesday…of course I missed it!..
The day before on Monday it was absolutely pumping through the beach at Coolangatta, kegging right down past big groyne at Kirra.
There wasn’t much current so I swam / drifted all the way from Snapper Rocks down past Kirra…
I got a few pics of the surfers on the way through Rainbow, but got down to Coolangatta beach pretty quickly.
It was pretty spooky and sharky down there as I was on my own …swimming….( a man was attacked by a Great White less than a kilometre from here only a few weeks ago), but I hung in there and tried to get the shot.. I didn’t want millions of surfers cluttering up the picture!
I was after the classic ‘in the tube looking out’ shot …….looking out of the barrel into the sunset. So I had to get away from the crowd
Unfortunately I didn’t get what I was after, the waves weren’t big enough, but scored a few nice ones anyway.
So as the sun was setting I decided to make the swim to the beach, over the deep, sharky gutter between me and the shore.

So here I am, lying on my back kicking my fins and making good progress across (in my mind) the shark filled channel….
I don’t mind being on a board at this time of night but when your whole body’s immersed in the water, you tend to feel a little vulnerable.
I was shitting myself! Every ripple, every ‘darker than normal’ shape in the water …was a potential prehistoric predator…..coming to swallow me whole!!!!!!..
Then all of a sudden a surf boat came smashing over a wave right near me.
Slapping me back in to reality.
They obviously hadn’t seen me and I was lucky they hadn’t run me over…
Aaaaah the perils of shooting the Super bank!!!
It was almost dark when I got to shore, relieved, legs like jelly; I started the long walk back to Snapper and the car. …..

Hanging around the office at Snapper Rocks

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:38:44 +0000

Surf Photography really is a mugs game…
It is, without a doubt, the cutting edge of Sports Photography and unfortunately the least paid.
Its definitely a hard slog to make a living from it….and there are only a handful who do….
But as Marty Tullemans says ‘Your Office is the beach’
This is pretty cool for a number of reasons.
One of them is the people you meet hanging around the office.
Here are a few pics of girls that I shot hanging around the office in the last 12 months.

More shots from Snapper Rocks, The Super bank , Rainbow Bay

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:18:06 +0000

Heres a few more shots from Snapper Rocks last week, the same day as the backwash photos.

Its been stormy and windy all week. But theres been a few waves to ease the pain.

Summer is only a few weeks away and I guess we’re already into cyclone season…

So hopefully the waves are going to turn on some perfection for us soon.

Its going to be a bumper summer here at Snapper Rocks , Coolangatta

Josh Kerr

Stormy Weather

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:40:14 +0000

There were a few small runners at Snapper and Rainbow today.

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.

May 2008, Photos from Snapper Rocks, Rainbow bay and the Superbank

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:28:21 +0000

Well, today is the first day of winter and the weather has changed for the occassion . Its cold, rainy and miserable a stark contrast of what its been like for the last few weeks
Most of May was absolutely sensational, with the exception of a few days Rainbow, Snapper Rocks, The Super Bank all turned on exceptional surf.

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.