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That was the winter that was

May 26, 2011

A busy bank holiday weekend coming up and starting to get amped for the Saltrock Open, stop No 2 of 9 on the 2011 UK Pro Surf Tour, at Croyde Beach, here in North Devon. It’s a bit of a bus mans holiday for me as I get to watch all of the action from […]

Dark arts and smiley faces

May 15, 2011

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 […]

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 […]

Goat boats go home

April 5, 2011

Nobody knows who rode the first wave for pleasure or where. However for the Polynesian people of the south Pacific, it is known that surfing has been an important part of their culture for the past 1,000 years and probably longer. Then along came captain Cook and his visit to Hawaii let the surfing gene […]

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. […]

Still Wandering

March 3, 2011

Stuey Campbell pumps a sweet little frontside grab in front of Morte Stone Firstly, a big thanks you to everyone who bought a first edition copy of the book “The Essential Contentment of Futile Wanderings”. The news is that it is now SOLD OUT! Never fear, the second edition is now available and has been […]

I wandered lonely as a rogue wave

February 27, 2011

It’s taken a while but I’ve finally found time to sort through the photos from last Sunday. A big clean swell and one of the lowest tides of the year combined to produce some epic waves in unusual places…. (Click on images for the bigger picture) Oyster Falls put on a show And the […]

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 […]

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 […]