Gray Saturday Afternoon

I heard the surf at Kelly Ave went off this morning and was in the double over head range with big hollow barrels breaking in 4 feet of water. My friend who surfed it said it was intense. Or did he say scary? I have been out of the water for a few months and only 2 or 3 days before that since Christmas so I played it safe. I hit a beach with some fun waist to head high waves and had a few hours of fun then went in to work. Saturday afternoon the fog rolled in. When I got home this is what it looked like at OB. Not to inviting unless you were out to catch some dinner. I went and got some pizza.

It's been a while

I think it's been almost 2 months since I've been in the water -:[ Long story short a decent swell hit this week and I managed to get out 4 times and take a few pictures on Friday.

And what a nice Friday it turned out to be. Check out the Sunrise at Kelly Ave. In Half Moon Bay. Oh, and see that point of land in the upper right? That's the north end of Half Moon Bay and about 1/4 mile out from the tip is Mavericks -:] It looks so peaceful from here. Well it probably is since I think it needs to be close to triple over head before it starts breaking and it was only just a bit over head Friday.

I only managed one wave before I was worn out (what? I've been out of the water 2 months) and had to head in to work. I took a few more pictures before heading out. Check out the guy in the yellow helmet getting ready.

There is the guy in the yellow helmet about to paddle out.

There he is again paddling into a decent looking wave.

Go! Go! Go!

Now pop up!

What are you doing?

Good thing he had a helmet on -;]

On my way back home to rinse off I stopped at another good break and shot this guy dropping in to a decent sized wave. I wish I could have stayed longer and got more shots because this wave was at least a few feet smaller than some of the others I saw the guys out just miss. But I was late for work and had to role.

Not to much going on

So the surf hasn't been all that sweet looking and I haven't made it out a whole lot since my last posts. And with the less than spectacular waves I haven't been taking any pictures. But I hope that will change soon at least as far as having pictures to post. I just ordered some new video cameras to strap to my head and paddle out with. Here's hoping they are water proof enough and sync good so I can put up some first person stereo 3d surf images!

What happens when the surf gets big?

You see more broken boards on the beach.

With the big surf we've had this week I've been seeing a lot more broken boards than usual.

Maverick's Xmas 3D Surf Video v1.0

Finally! I had to do a lot of work to reduce the shake from using full zoom and zoom extenders on my 3d rig. I have found a bunch of little things to fix with my long distance 3d rig but even what I have now seems to work okay. This video still has some problems I'm trying to work out but it's the best 3d Maverick's footage I have shot to date. Maybe at some point I'll post some of my older Mavericks footage for comparison. Enjoy -:]

Cleaning up my Mavericks video

So I was up late trying to figure out the best way to reduce the shake and improve the stereo 3d quality of all the Mavericks video I shot yesterday. I think I have finally come up with the solution. Take a look at this shot then compare it the the same shot I put up before deshaking at the end of yesterdays post.

So much better right?!

Merry Christmas!

Santa dropped some waves off this morning -:]

Here is the spot I tried to hit yesterday, looking a bit better today. I managed to get a few Xmas waves. Then I got out and took a few pictures.







So a few people showed up here because just about every where else was a bit to big for mere mortals. Check out what was going on just around the corner from where I was surfing -:[]

Mavericks had a little bit of action going on today. Looks like it may go off a couple more times this week and possibly get bigger if things line up right. I have a few more minutes of footage of Mavericks from today that I'm trying to edit together and get up loaded. All in all Santa was very nice to us Nor-Cal surfers today!