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Dark arts and smiley faces
Everybody shoots portraits, easy to do but so difficult to get good results. All you need is basic equipment, a camera with a standard lens, some light (natural or flash) and of course – a subject. The challenge is to reach into the character of the person and try to present a small slice of […]
Golden Wanderings
May 6, 2011
So stoked to get a double page spread in the latest issue of Carve Magazine. The picture is a line-up shot of a well known surf spot in North Devon taken from an entirely new angle. A surf break cannot be called a secret spot if you can see it from the road, and this […]
Might have gone too far
April 19, 2011
You know when you play a song to death and something you once loved turns into something you cant stand any more. After a long hard winter my play list was becoming a bit like that, jaded and over familiar, so I decided to add some different tunes to my mp3 player (which also happens […]
All the sun that shines
April 12, 2011
It all started when I saw one of my photos posted by someone else on Magicseaweed. It was quite upsetting momentarily but it was all easily and quickly sorted by the chaps at the ‘weed’ (who didn’t want to get their asses sued) and I got a nice apology from a grom (who probably didn’t […]
Horsemen, apocalypse and catflaps
March 12, 2011
As the four horsemen of the apocalypse saddle up and prepare to lay waste to our beautiful blue planet it is perhaps time to remind ourselves that not all waves travel at 500 mph and some are associated with joy rather than desolation. Sequence: Stuart Campbell out of the cat flap at Croyde last autumn. […]
Tubular Swells
February 23, 2011
That was a great film. I remember sitting in grom- like awe of the pictures flashing on a makeshift screen in Braunton village hall with about 70 other surfers screaming and hooting at every barrel and big wave take-off. This was back in the seventies when surf news filtered through to the north Devon community […]
No public access beyond this point
February 17, 2011
The internet community was wild with eager expectations, tomorrow was already being dubbed as Big Wednesday and it was was going to be epic. The long term prediction didn’t waiver and as if to confirm it – the swell had bumped that afternoon and was still building. That evening however, the weather forecast showed […]
Mid winter surf gold
February 13, 2011
Plenty of swell around this weekend and pumping waves in north west Ireland by the looks of things. Lots of swell here in north Devon too and lots of miles clocked up by surfers and photographers alike; checking, searching and dodging the rain showers. With bad light and contrary tides I was thinking that […]
Postcard from Nicaragua
February 7, 2011
Good to hear from Wooly ripper Stuart Campbell, who Facebooked from Nicaragua to say how stoked he was to be on the cover of ‘Wanderings’ . He is there with Alan Stokes on a photo shoot for Carve Magazine. Which gives me a good excuse to plug the book again and celebrate the tenth sale! […]
Stormy Weather
February 4, 2011
Really wild and windy here today, there was plenty of swell so I went for a walk to check out a few spots I’d earmarked as potential locations for a good shot. It’s all about new discoveries and new angles at the moment in Surf Photography. It was muddy and I got wet on the […]
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