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Va Beach OBX North Carolina Maryland Surf Alerts from SURFLINE.COM Surfer Magazine - Online Exclusives Surfing TheMag - Most RecentFinally fixed the software issue, so here are the shots from Sunday the 28th, with a few from Saturday the 27th Neptune contest.
Conditions for shooting pretty much sucked, I have not done any post editting on these shots, they are straight out of the camera.
Click on the image below to see the entire Gallery
Hey Everyone, I’m in the process of setting up a page for a good cause. JTWALK.ORG is going to be having a walk to raise Money and Awareness for ALS (Lou Gherig’s Disease) victims.
Local Surfer Josh Thompson who was stricken with this disease is the inspiration for this event which will be taking place on Sunday October 19th 2008 at 31st Street in Va Beach…
from the JTWalk.Org website…
“The ALS Association raise monies through events and contributions to both assist families in need and to further research! One event is their “WALK FOR THE CURE”. Josh is not in need personally financially – he is in need emotionally and wants to participate in the “ALS WALK FOR THE CURE” and hopes his friends and family (all of which have asked repeatedly “what can we do?”) will join him on Sunday, October 19, 2008.
One hundred percent (100%) all money raised on October19 will go to the ALS Association – DC/MD/VA Chapter to further drug therapies and stem cell research, etc”
I am in the process of setting up a page where anybody who donates through my link will be elligible for a free photo off this site, this includes any decent shots I may get at the Boost Mobile Pro at Trestles next week.
$10.00 to $24.99 donation - Computer Wallpaper of the image of your choice at your requested screen resolution.
$25.00 to 40.00 donation - Two 5×7 inch prints of the image(s) of your choice
$41.00 to $75.00 donation - An 8×10 inch print of the image of your choice
$76.100 to $100.00 donation - An 11×17 inch print of the image of your choice
$101.00 to $150.00 donation - A 13×19 inch print of the image of your choice
Anything over $150 and I’ll throw in a 20×30 inch poster print of the image of your choice.
Just use this link http://fightals.alsinfo.org/goto/wrightcoastsurf to make your donation and once you have done so, just place an order on WrightCoastSurf.com using the image sizes with JTWalk.org in the drop down. I will match up the orders with the donations and process them as soon as possible.
For more information on ALS please visit FightALS.org or check out this video for the MDA and Augie’s Quest to see how this disease can pretty much strike anybody at anytime in their life. This video is for a different charity for the same disease, but the message should still be the same.
It’s 4:30 am here in Southern California and today we’re expecting to see the Finals of the 2008 Boost Mobile Pro contest.
I have a ton of shots from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th rounds to post. Some I’ve already editted and there is a slideshow on SurfKDH.com right now, the rest of the photos will be posted late tonight.
Contest should be over around 1pm pacific time so it’s all free surfing and tourist photos after that.
Stay Tuned
Brady Styron and myself shot the first 11 or 12 heats today before heading north to check out the action at the Wedge. We’ll be back on Tuesday the 9th for more Trestles Coverage.
Click on the image below to see all the Sept 8th action
The 24 nightmare trip from hell ended with us Arriving at Orange County airport around 11am Sunday. We headed south to Oceanside to shoot off the jetty while John Barnes paddled out for a few waves.
click on the image below to see the photos
Here they are, a few days late shots from Sept 1st 2008 Labor day down south on Hatteras Island. If you were there, you know where we were. I’ll be leaving for California on Saturday morning, so the surf should be good at least thru the 14th
Click on the photo of Joe Gillen to see the entire gallery
I spent yesterday in Hatteras with Joe Gillen, shooting in a few different locations. Photos should be posted by noon today.
Heading to the Boost Mobile Pro at Trestles on Saturday, hoping Hanna doesn’t cause my flights to be delayed.
Here are the shots from the August 29, 2008 show on the 31st street stage in Virginia Beach. I had a great spot to shoot from, right up front stage right. But for some reason the security guys decided I wasn’t allowed to shoot with my camera, I should have told them to stick it and kept shooting like the rest of the people in the crowd, but I moved to the back then slowly made my way up the center.
Either way, it was a great show, enjoy the shots.
john
Click on the photo of Sammy below to view the entire gallery.
Here’s a small gallery of surfing photos taken at 1st street on August 14th just before sunset…Thanks Jeff for reminding me.
Click on the image below to see the entire gallery
watch the sun come up as the front that kept Fay from heading north moves in, check out the direction of the clouds goes from west northwest to north northeast…this is a sequence of shots taken every 24 seconds for a couple of hours…more to come, maybe…
I’ve changed this clip to show at 6 frames per second without all the garbled crap from the previous conversion.
Ok, I shot waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many photos so they are broken down into 5 different galleries and seperated them by the time on the images, with the exception of the Pro Finals and the Life Rolls On Expression Session shots which are in their own gallery…my camera is off by an hour but I’m pretty sure everything is in order.
I was shooting from the south beach (jetty area) most of the morning, but I was able to get some shots of some of the North Beach action, and even managed to get some shots of the award presentations.
To view the galleries click on the images below for the specific galleries that you wish to view.
8:00 am til 10:00 am
10:00 am til 12 noon
12 Noon til Pro Finals (pro finals are not in this gallery)
PRO FINALS
Life Rolls On Expression Session
First up are the SUPER GROMS. I tried to get as many of them as I could but it’s just not possible. I haven’t looked at any of the images yet so there’s a good chance some our out of focus or over/under exposed…sorry, I just wanted to get them up a.s.a.p.
Click on the image below to see the Super Grom photos
August 23rd 2008 ECSC ‘non-super grom’ photos…again, I haven’t even looked at them so some are probably out of focus and many are probably not exposed correctly, because editting takes time and I didn’t bring any sunscreen with me today…’you figure it out’
click on the image below to see the day’s surfing actions, mostly from the south beach
enjoy, jw
Headed north to Nags Head to shoot the Rip Curl Right Coast Raid shop challenge. Not sure which shop won so stay tuned to SurfKDH.com for the results and more photos. Also Matt Lusk was there shooting so keep an eye out for his shots as well.
Click on the shot of Mick Fanning below to see the entire uneditted gallery…
Tomorrow I’ll be heading down to Rodanthe for my annual week on the Beach. I’m hoping we get a swell like last years 3 days of fun and maybe a good thunderstorm or two.
Anyway a few things that I’m planning on attending in the next 10 Days:
Aug 15th at the Attic (above Watermans) @ 8:30pm Billabong Presents Surfers the Movie Then & Now
August 16th - I’ll be at the Rip Curl Grom Search in Kitty Hawk (unless this is pushed back to the 17th, then I may or may not be there)
August 20th - @ Bonnet St from 2 to 4pm I will be in Nags Head to get some photos of Rip Curl riders Mick Fanning, Tom Curren, Pancho Sullivan and Taylor Knox.
I’ll end up the week back home in Va Beach shooting the final two days of the 46th Annual East Coast Surfing Championships.
Then it’s an entire 2 weeks at home until I head back to California for a week of nothing but shooting.
This is a little late with me being in Chicago Last week. But Congrats go out to Mike and Dynah Beveridge on their Marriage last week down in Rodanthe.
I’ll be heading back to Hatteras for my yearly vacation with The Wyatts on the 16th. Hopefully we’ll see a repeat of last years solid surf, and if I’m lucky a good lightning storm and/or water spout or two.
Until then, we’ll just have to focus on what’s up in Va Beach, like the weekly Shadowlawn Surf Club get together.
Click on the image below to see the rest of the shots from August 5th.
I’m back in Va Beach for now. Hopefully we’ll have some surf this week.
Big news is, I’ll be back in California for the Boost Mobile Pro Presented by Hurley at Trestles from September 7th thru 13th. This is good for two reasons.
I’ve also found some decent deals on rental cars, if anyone needs any info drop me an email.
F.Y.I. As of today Sunday July 20th Continental Airlines has round trips to Los Angeles and San Diego from Norfolk for $198.00 plus about 35 bucks in fees. People flying out of Raleigh can fly into Orange County for the same price. These prices have been the same for the last three days, not sure how long this will last, and I’ve checked dates as late as the week after Thanksgiving.
word,
john
I took a bus to Santa Monica pier last night, hoping to shoot some surf and or the sunset. Unfortunately, there was No Surf and the fog showed up the same time I did and the sunset was shot.
So to this point I have practically no photos of my first trip to California. We’ll see if that changes as I’m hoping to head down to Huntington Beach / Newport Beach in the morning for a few hours.
I need to come out here just to take pictures…I found some round trips from Norfolk for less than 300 bucks!
Due to the fact that I don’t bounce, this is a small gallery from the afternoon of July 13th at 1st street. My wrist was hurting so much it hurt to push the button on the camera. This is gonna be one fun flight to L.A. tomorrow. I’ll be back on the 20th…so I won’t be at the Shadowlawn Surf Club on Wednesday night.
Anyway, click on the shot below to see what I did shoot today.
