Billabong crew hard at work
Apr 13th
I stopped by billabong for a visit today, the crew have marked out a mini football field outside the office, seems like football fever is here. No work will be done.
Issue 6 of The Bomb Surf is now online
Apr 12th
http://www.thebombsurf.com/pages/75/online-mag
Issue 6 was sent to 8000 subscribers in March 2010 and the feedback was immediate and overwhelming! The phrase “best issue yet” seemed to be a recurring one. Perhaps it was something to do with the fact that some of the biggest and craziest waves ever ridden were captured on camera and published in this issue, in a feature called “Big Game Hunters” covering the South African domination of Big Wave surfing in both the Northern and Souther Hemispheres. Twiggy Baker snagged the cover riding a MASSIVE wave at Jaws, and local hero Chris Bertish won international acclaim winning the Big Wave event at Mavericks in Northern California. Former WCT surfer Greg Emslie rates the 4 SA WCT surfers chances on the 2010 tour, while we take readers on a surf tour of Tasmania with Dr. Philip Chapman. Some of the acclaim was certainly reserved for 2 very insightful articles on facing fear, by Paddy Upton and Ocean Power as an alternative energy source, by Kerry Wright – both respected experts in
their fields. Finally, Mad Mutt reports on “The most pumpingest summer ever” in a hilarious look at the Cape scene which scored waves for 4 months solid.
The Bomb Surf Issue 6
Easter Sunday Dunes session
Apr 4th
I got a call early this morning from Jason Hearn…”Dunes is on maaaaate”. I packed some gear knowing we had a bit of a long walk i packed as little as possible and headed off. First stop Vida Constantia for a coffee then off to NoordHoek beach. The waves were fun, in the 4-6ft range with a good South Easter on it, a couple of boards were broken ending some guys sessions after there first wave. The walk back was great.
The crew doing the long walk.
Paul Daniels rode this barrel for ages until it ate him up.
Frank getting swollowed by a wall of white water
Anybody want to sponsor Cheyne a new board???
Table Mountain Images
Apr 3rd
I was asked to shoot some Table Mountain images, It’s strange that as a photographer you can live in Cape Town and never have spent time shooting the mountain. So yesterday i spent a few hours driving around to get a couple of pics. last night Signal was packed with people and a normal 5min drive took 30 minutes.
Long exposures are cool, managed by luck to get a shooting star in this one.
Khotso Mokoena Photo Shoot in Pretoria
Apr 1st
My alarm went off this morning at 3.30am, bloody crazy if you ask me but at the end of the day it was well worth it. I flew to Jozi then made the traffic jammed drive to Pretoria to shoot with Olympic long jumper Khotso Mokoena for Red bull. Was a bad day of rain, gear got soaked but we worked around it and ended up with some KILLER shots.
Jumping 8m is no problem for Khotso Mokoena.
Shot this on a remote camera. cool to get another angle.
These shoes can fly.
Kenny Belaey Trialbike Shoot
Mar 29th
I spent the day cruizing with 8 x World Trialbiker champion Kenny Belaey, we missioned around Cape Town to get a couple of images for Red Bull Photofiles. Kenny has been out doing some shows for the Cape Epic as well as doing a lot of training.
Any obstacle is a playground for these guys
The Cape Boulders are perfect for training
This is a lot higher than it looks
Blue Rock Cable Park Comp
Mar 27th
On Saturday I went through to Blue Rock Cable Park to Shoot some of the crew Competing in the comp. The day started off rain and gusting wind but by 11am the sun was out for a while and the wind was gone making the water flat and perfect for riding. If you have not been here before you should go check it out, really makes wakeboarding accessible to everyone. It has some kickers rails and other obstacles to play around on.
http://bluerock.co.za/blue_rock_cable_ski/pages/index.php
Blue Rock Cable Park
ABSA Cape epic
Mar 24th
I went out Worcster with the Oakley crew to check out the Cape Epic time trial. 27km in 1h06m is a crazy time to cover that distance. I spent the day shooting some of the Oakley athletes and doing some head shots of the guys wearing Oakley.
Kevin Evans crossing the TT finish line
Crossing the finish can be painful.
