Spent a little time shooting some of the Neptune Festival Contest today. Still trying to get over this cold so I didn’t stay too long.  Click on the image below to see the entire gallery.

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I’m finally back home after 3 days chasing the Helene swell around the Outer Banks. Hit up the Volcom Pro/Am contest in KDH today and just like last year, it was a Photo Feast. This makes nearly 2000 photos uploaded from the past 3 days, Let’s hope for some more days like these.  I do plan on being at the Neptune Contest this weekend in VB.   ALSO: If you have an outstanding photo order please email me for an update. I’ve sent out a bunch of emails with no response, and I have some new prints that I need to have delivered.

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Hit the road at sunrise with Ben from http://www.abstractvideodesign.com/video.htm (Click the link to see the video from today) Travelled up and down the Island. First hit S-Turns for a short session with Will Skudin and some decent sponging action…then bounced around and found the crowd for some sweet photos of people like,  Ryan Kingsbury, Barry Price, Joe Hanley, John Barnes, Lindsey Bowman, Jason Borte, Jimmy V and anybody else who was on the beach….took a break for some lunch, and returned to the same spot. Although it was obviously smaller and the wind was howling the surfing was just as good when Sebastian Moreno, Price Wheeler and the Richards boys turned it on…..

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I’m working on a ton of shots from Hatteras today, featuring the likes of Will Skudin, Balaram, TJ and Tommy from New York, Joe Gillan, Mark Newton, Jay Hawkotte, Morgan O and whoever else happened to show up.

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I have a pretty healthy sized gallery from Day 1 of the 2006 ESA Easterns. All in all it was a pretty decent day of surfing. Although the lighting was difficult I managed to get some ok shots all day long, even in the early morning backlight.

To see Ben Stinson’s video from today’s action go to www.AbstractVideoDesign.com Click the link or the banner on the gallery pages.

This shot was taken of a couple of guys riding different sections of the same wave in the free suring area just south of the contest area, the guy in the orange jersey was coming in after his heat ended. I know this looks fake but it’s not, I actually missed the next snap where the guy in the middle launched into an air of his own, because I wanted to make sure I got this shot.  The second shot is Zach Kenny who took two first places on Day one. Click on either image to see the entire gallery.

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The Hurricane Florence swell started to show today, but the wind was on it hard out of the northeast. I shot a few hours, in harsh light,  at the OBX ESA contest in Nags Head and then headed south to see what was up. Frisco was clean but very small and nobody seemed to be able to catch anything at the pier while I was there so I headed back to the lighthouse and shot for about an hour.

I decided not to waste some days off this week to shoot the swell from Aunt Flo, I’m going to stay in Va Beach and shoot after work, unless I get some reports of Epic Conditions down south.

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Spent the day up in New Jersey with Macon and Raven, along with Chris from VBSurfphotos.com and Little Steve :-)   The lighting sucked while the conditions were at their best so forgive the poor image quality. 

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Photos are posted. Day started off in Nags Head with cloudy grey skies, but some decent sized surf and offshore winds. I then moved up to KDH to shoot a session with a bunch of Spongers taking on some meaty shorebreak. Around Noon I headed down to Rodanthe and shot with the nicest guy on the coast Mickey McCarthy until about 6pm.  Now I’m off to New Jersey to see what’s up!

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I have a few shots to try and edit and post from Friday Evening at 1st street. Conditions sucked for photos, but I’ll see what I can do with the few that I took, before I braved the flooded streets of Pungo to get down to the Outer Banks.

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