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We’ll be here.

Tickets are booked and joining me on the trip will be Brad Styron and John Barnes for a week in Southern California. If any other East Coasters are planning on being out there, let Brad or Myself know if you’re interested in a Left Coast photo session.  

I’m back in Va Beach for now. Hopefully we’ll have some surf this week.

Big news is, I’ll be back in California for the Boost Mobile Pro Presented by Hurley at Trestles from September 7th thru 13th. This is good for two reasons.

1. I’ll get to shoot a pro contest at a spot I’ve never been to before
2. This pretty much Guarantees I’ll miss epic surf in Va Beach and the Outer Banks

I’ve also found some decent deals on rental cars, if anyone needs any info drop me an email.

F.Y.I. As of today Sunday July 20th Continental Airlines has round trips to Los Angeles and San Diego from Norfolk for $198.00 plus about 35 bucks in fees. People flying out of Raleigh can fly into Orange County for the same price. These prices have been the same for the last three days, not sure how long this will last, and I’ve checked dates as late as the week after Thanksgiving.

word,

john

 

I took a bus to Santa Monica pier last night, hoping to shoot some surf and or the sunset. Unfortunately, there was No Surf and the fog showed up the same time I did and the sunset was shot.

So to this point I have practically no photos of my first trip to California. We’ll see if that changes as I’m hoping to head down to Huntington Beach / Newport Beach in the morning for a few hours.

I need to come out here just to take pictures…I found some round trips from Norfolk for less than 300 bucks!

Due to the fact that I don’t bounce, this is a small gallery from the afternoon of July 13th at 1st street.  My wrist was hurting so much it hurt to push the button on the camera.  This is gonna be one fun flight to L.A. tomorrow. I’ll be back on the 20th…so I won’t be at the Shadowlawn Surf Club on Wednesday night.

Anyway, click on the shot below to see what I did shoot today.

So, I woke up this morning around 7:30…

…anyway, around noon, the light was looking ok, so I decided to go check out the surf before heading to Ocean Breeze park. Ran into Sean Knight who told me it was looking good and Joel Tudor was on his way.

Took about 450 shots until it was time to go get some sunscreen and food, then returned a little after 5 for another session. This gallery has about 650 shots in it. Click on the image of Joel Tudor below to view the entire gallery.

Again, word on the street was it was better in Va Beach than in town in the Outer Banks.  At this point I’m leaning heavily towards staying in town in VB on Saturday and I’ll document the local crowd scenes.  If I start getting reports that it’s ‘BETTER’ down south I’ll consider driving down later on Saturday and shoot Sat. night and Sunday.

Again, in my rush to get these pictures posted, I hosed up the file names on these shots so ignore the June 14 on the file name, I know I’m going to…besides, it’s not hurting anything.

Click on the shot of Joe Elliott below to see the entire gallery

Thursday night I was waiting for the novacaine in my mouth to wear off and I decided to bike down to 1st street without my camera. So I hung out for a couple of hours watching and it appeared to be getting better, crowded as all hell but still looked real good especially on the sets.   I had reports from three credible sources that spots on the Outer Banks were showing signs of swell but nothing special.

This morning I woke up at 5 to check it out and tried taking a couple of shots but the light wasn’t cooperating, and I wasn’t about to go out on the jetty again.  The sets still look good, and I’m hoping that this afternoon has some good light.  I plan on staying in Va Beach on Friday and possibly heading south for Saturday and Sunday to shoot. But if it’s good here, I may just stay in VB and check out some of those other locations that have been breaking lately….stay tuned

Here’s a sunrise shot from Friday July 11, 2008

Here are some more shots from the day I got busted on the Jetty in all their overexposed no long lens glory. The image files say June 14th, that’s an error on my part, but it’s my site and I’ll not be concerned with such nonsense tonight. Anyway, they’re all at the front of the original May 14 gallery or you can click on the image below to see the entire gallery and tell Tyler to call off the hitman!

Here they are, another big crowd for No surf, kinda breezy and cool, but at least it didn’t smell like smoke.

click on the image below to see the entire gallery

john