Always, ALWAYS, A-L-W-A-Y-S...

...bring your tool kit with you when you bring a waterproof housing to the beach.  Otherwise, you might end up with a housing that you cannot open to turn the camera back on during one of the most beautiful sunsets you have ever seen (followed by a mockingly-long, brilliant afterglow dusk)

Just maybe.

Not that I would know anything about this.  Oh no--it's not like that happened to me today.

Fisheye madness

This was my first go with a fisheye lens in a waterhousing, ever.  I think it was well worth the investment in the lens and Kodak Ektachrome film!

 split level...

Barreling action @ home sweet home

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Off-Season Fireworks

No it's not summer...but it sure looks a lot like the 4th!

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Surf Photo Set: Dedicated to Susan Fowler McNally

This set of photos taken at Sapphire Street is dedicated to the memory of fellow Manhattan Beach-loving sponger Susan Fowler McNally.  A friend of her's, kneeboard local Bruce Rorty, notified me of her untimely passing.  She left us December 1st, 2010.  Rest In Peace, Susan.

 This shot was taken at extremely close proximity.

I love watching dropknee riders--they always have unique approaches to the discipline.  It's self-taught for the most part (when is the last time you saw an ad in the summer that said, "Learn to Dropknee!" instead of "Learn to Surf!"?), or influenced by your surf buddies and videos.  Here "dropknee guy" swoops in backside.

 Fishermen, etheral clouds, surfers lounging while sets approach out the back--just another day in California.

 Sapphire Street looking a bit too emerald for it's namesake.

 In order to get these birds in the frame properly, I had to let this wave crash down on top of me.

 Here's "dropknee guy," in stylish trim: just cruising.

 When you come this hard off the bottom at a beachbreak...

...you can smack the top equally forcefully!

 Sapphire Street peeler and a sky with the case of the blotchy blues.

 Lip lines always fascinate me.

 This pulled-back panorama cutback caught my attention in the editing bay.

 Afros and surfing are not commonly seen in tandem.  However, I think it's a groovy--and photogenic--look.  Just think of all of those shots of 70's performance shortboarder Larry Bertleman--would his aquatic Bertslides be the same without the 'fro?

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FISHEYE MADNESS COMING SOON!

Fisheye images--both night shots and daytime watershots--coming soon!