Slide Mag

Chippa Off The Old Block...

Blimey...

Are You A Grockle?

Or an emmit, a dubber, a pasty or any of the other mildly derogatory names coastal folk use for tourists? Few of us British and Irish surfers have the luxury of living by the beach. Unlike those lucky buggers in Durban, Sydney and Los Angeles our main population centres are inland; we live away from the ocean. If we are lucky enough to live by the sea (def: tidal salty water) then it’s somewhere the waves aren’t (e.g London or Dublin). So surfing, for a lot of us, is not in our blood, we aren’t all locals somewhere.

Well Hello There Danielle...

If you've seen the new Carve Mag then you might have read the editorial. A piece all about the noble hurricane. I'm a big fan of September hurricane swells but we've not seen many good ones the last few years. Looks like the weather might have finally flipped itself out of the dreadful summer weirdness and we're currently looking down a run of proper good swell, some decent wind and a good dose of Europe as it should be. Which is nice. I'll let you know how my relationship with Danielle works out come the end of the week. It's time to goto work. Yeeeeeew!

Slo-Mo Slater Shippies...

I like slo-mo...

Finally A Proper Fishy...

 
Canon have finally updated their fisheye lens to give us guys that shoot with crop sensor bodies a proper full frame fisheye. They've hit two birds with one stone as it works with full frame cameras and crops. In other words it's double awesome. Every Canon based surf photog will want one. Early rumours suggest it's out in Jan and will cost $1400. Which is kinda sucky but the image quality when paired with a 7D should be phenomenal. For the Canon blurb read on.

Living The iLife...

It's no secret I'm a bit of a tech geek. I love the increasing ease of modern life...
As a music buff having music with me has always been important and to go from a Sony Walkman and a box of cassette tapes, to a portable (but shite) CD player and onto a pretty frickin awesome MiniDisc player over the years was a necessary evil. The invention of the iPod (debuted Oct 23rd 2001, capacity 5GB!) ended that arms race. Physical media from that point was doomed. The logical conclusion to this journey happened a few months ago when I boxed up 100s of CDs (well, flogged alot of recent ones on eBay) and took 'em down the charity shop. Tapes and vinyl went in the recycling bin for some lucky punter to find. My music library now lives on a 60GB old school classic iPod and on me 500GB back up drive.
Which is kind of nuts...

I Wish I Could Do This...

The next Relentless fillum. Epic two wheeled action. Things have moved on since my Raleigh Super Burner days...

Mickey Rules...

Some kind of awesome...

This Looks Like Fun...

I needs to go back to Indo!

FRICKING OUCH...

A good photog will do anything to get the shot. Surf photog's take it that one step further. When you consider the complex physics of waves, whatever bottom that wave is breaking over and a portly cameraman then anything can happen...