Quiteness...

The road has been long and bumpy one this year, however the road hasnt come to an end, but rather about to start.

people, brace yourselves for the new year. there is a lot to be conquered and i shall be doing so!

in the meantime will leave you with a pic from a fairly recent trip we did to find some waves, and that we did! Thanks to Simon Heale for shooting while making the paddle....next swell and conditions we will be all over it with the boat shooting the channel!

the first pic you will notice Michael Ostler on the shoulder...maybe the safest place to be :)

yes its about 10 - 14ft breaking on about knee deep reef about 0,5km out to sea if you want to know where it is...

Madonna Meets The Press 1980

Photo by Brad Elterman.

Elterman writes:

“I was hired by Dick Clark’s press agent to cover the American Music Awards nearly every year for a decade. I had incredible access and I wanted to make a great photograph of this new singer called Madonna. There is little potential to be creative in this small area, but it made a wonderful photograph.”

Did Michael Jackson Bodyboard?

Strangely enough came through some of his lyrics from an all time classic 'rock with me' with two references to the boogie ;)


You got to feel the heat
And we can ride the boogie

....


When you feel that heat
And were gonna ride the boogie

empty gaschamber

this morning, Ian, Mitch and I decided to take a drive / walk to gaschambers..

yup there was no one else out as we arrived to mad barrels turning themselves inside out!! These are just a few randoms when the conditions got bad later on as rip was to washy to swim in the beginning, well and someone else had to enjoy the barrels with Ian as there was to many being wasted!

no one out on ISD

International Surfing Day and only 5 of us out with chunky barrels all morning, cant complain.

some old memories...

yup we once dreamt of some very big swell making big barrels, this is what we got...some of these photos you need to look closely to spot people in barrels, getting cleaned up etc

Water Housing

My new water housing should be ready, will be going through to Peter Lamberts tonight to test fittings / ports to see if she is ready...will keep you all posted and also when i take it for a test spin out in the surf

Son Surf Art Exhibition

Nandos Advert

Nandos ran an advert based on ANCYL and seems like they got an interesting response back... "If Nando's does not withdraw the adverts, the ANCYL will mobilise the people of South Africa to take militant action against Nando's and anything associated with Nando's," it said. Asked for clarification on what the league meant by "militant action", Malema would only say: "You will see it when it happens."

One & Only

The previous week we were called out for the opening of the One & Only in the V&A Waterfront, what a spectacular hotel and simpy amazing evening. Ended up covering the red carpet opening with all the celebrity interviews which went down really well...

Shark Who

Went for a cage dive the other day in Gansbaai, very intereted as always....after much time of waiting they finally showed there face, and yes we got a rare site of a 5m great white...it was flippen BIG!!!

Did you know sharks cant smell human blood?Its a true fact that cause we arent from the fish species human blood doesnt bother them and they dont pick it up, good to know next time you out in the water :)

Lydia and Warren's Birthday

Yesterday it was Lydia and Warrens birthday. Another year older and another night of partying away, heres a sample image i shot of them a while back together on one shoot....

STUDIO MAVEN

On Monday we got a bunch of friends together, had a few drinks and did some stock library shooting with three guest bodyboarders...

Mark McCarthy
Jared Houston
Mark Watts

Shoot went well and got heaps of cool images, owes were super fun to work with. Will be posting some samples in the next day or two with some samplers...

heres a little sample of some cool artwork i came across the other day, check it out..

Sony World Photography Awards

Have a browse around, some really well captured moments..

http://www.worldphotographyawards.org/2009winners.asp

PETA - Chinese Fur skinners

THE LINK BELOW IS VERY SAD , VERY SHOCKING , VERY DISGUSTING , EVEN MORE HEARTBREAKING
PLEASE SIGN

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=fur_farm&Player=wm&speed=med

Deep Blue Sea

A call the night before and a quick update from my good old crew mates, James Moolenschoot and Peter Lambert we were heading out to the deep blue sea. Boat preped and equipment loaded we launched at first light...and off we went. Some tasters of what we came across even though the swell was dropping and not as strong as we hoped. Yes there are better shots to be seen but not yet ;)

Days With My Father

Last week with great sadness Mr Toledano passed away at age 99yrs. You can view the site below which has really captured it amazingly...very touching!

http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/#/0

Sir Cecil Beaton

A name and icon that changed the way we shoot the industry.

Sir Cecil Beaton, who died in 1980 at the age of 76, was one of the world's greatest celebrity photographers. In addition to immortalising stars and royalty on film, he also designed the costumes for My Fair Lady and Gigi. After one photo session with the Queen Mum, he admitted nicking her scented hankie as a keepsake.

spend some time on google and view his works, very interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Beaton


The name that changed the fashion and potrait photography industry..

crazy photo i came across from Trent Mitchel the other day...got vote for him on the link below and choose "VOTE HERE"

http://www.stabmag.com/littleweeds/the-littleweeds/Trent-Mitchell

STUDIO MAVEN

check it out!! our studio we have launched in Woodstock, get incontact

Earth Hour

BE THE VOICE FOR OUR PLANET

Sign up now and become part of what could be the single most powerful demonstration of global solidarity on any matter in the history of the planet. By signing up, you are pledging to switch off your lights on Saturday, 28 March 2009 at 8:30pm. Your name will form part of a 1 billion-strong petition that will be sent to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen at the end of the year to put pressure on world leaders to pass legislation on climate change.
(8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth. Saturday 28 March 2009)

Welcome

This blog will have random updates of my movements and the things i come across....it will mainly based on where i have been and what is left to show for it.

mainly this will lead to my photography work and the things i come across.

enjoi