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 This rooster was not stoked with us surfing his spot.

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The OBX in and out

Was not a good surf week in the OBX. Well at least not where we stayed this year. It has been nothing but shore break. After almost a week of waiting for a better swell and waves I gave up and dropped into a few right up on the beach. Most of them were about like this with maybe a ride or two a little longer. At least I wasn't shut out but wish there had been better surf because the water was pretty nice. Win some lose some.

O.B. 2013-01-20

Was watching the Mavericks 2012/13 surf contest online and it was a bit boring. Lots of 20min lulls and such and the waves though big seemed a bit mush. I took a look out the back window at O.B. and it was not at all mushy or boring. So I climbed up on the roof and shot some video for about 30-40min and here is what I got.

Rainbow Wave

1st day in the Outer Banks the surf is really small so we rented some floaty 8'4"s and paddled out. Part way through the session my brother-in-law, Todd, pointed out a double rainbow behind us. I was all, "What does it mean?!"

Linda happened to see it too while sitting on the deck of the beach house we are staying in and took a few pictures. you cant see the full or double part of the rainbow because it was to big for the camera.


This was my double rainbow ride for the pot of gold. As I rode past Todd I shouted "It's my double rainbow wave. What does it mean?!"

Day 1 in the OBX was great even if it was small.

More 3D footage

Be sure to go to click on the video and go to YouTube to see it in stereo 3D.

Here I am surfing at Kelly Ave in HMB. It was small and kind of fun.

You can see me drop in on a friend, Tyson, near the end. And the last three shots are of Ed who has pics and stuff in other posts.

Oh, and I made the music a while back and though it would work out okay for this video. Seems to sync up pretty well though I probably could have made some better edits. But even that wouldn't have help my lack of skills or ugly mug being front and center in 3D -:]

3D GoPro Testing

Testing out my new 3D GoPro setup. This is actually the 2nd time I've taken it out but only my first post. Will try and get some more shots up at some point. Unfortunately both times I took the camera out waves were not so good and the sky was pretty gray. Testing out some re-timing here as well. Gets a bit swimy in the super slow motion bit. Eh, kind of fun any way.


Here is a still from the video

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And here is a bit of a photo edit of the same section to level out the image. Mostly filled in the sky and the surfboard to cover up the gap left from rotating the image.

Photos By Dave Elkinson

Haven't posted in a while. Haven't been surfing as much as I should so instead of taking pictures or using video rigs I've been trying to focus on surfing. This past Thursday I lucked out and saw someone taking photos of us from the shore. When I got out I went over and met Dave Elkinson who was kind enough to send me the photos he took of us. Thanks Dave!


Here is Todd Jansen making a bottom turn. Todd is the latest addition to the PDI dawn patrol though I think he's been surfing with us since he started at PDI a few years ago. I just haven't post any pictures of him till now.


Todd on a bigger wave running out of options.


My favorite picture, me giving up on surfing and trying to learn how to fly.


Here I am actually riding a wave.

Thanks again for the pictures Dave!

Mavericks First Big Swell of the Season

Here is the janky ass video I shot of Mavericks. I didn't have any video tapes for my stereo 3d rig so I shot this with my point and shoot. You can see the rig below. Anyway it was fun to get out and watch the first big swell of the season!


A couple of guys getting ready to head out. I love those boards.


A lady with bigger balls than most tough guys getting ready to go out.


This is the view from where I was standing. This is at the top of a 40-50 foot is cliff and is probably one of the best spots you can watch from short of being in the water. That wave in the middle top which is the farthest out is the break. There is actually someone riding it and if you click to view the bigger image you can almost make them out but probably not. The guy there in front of me had a huge lens.


Here is what that barbed wire fence protects. It's some kind of Navy installation. I think mostly weather and radar stuff. It has the prime spot for watching Mavericks and normal people are not aloud in.


Here is the top of the cliff. In this picture you can see just about all of the top of the cliff that you can watch from. I was standing along the very steep back side of the cliff. Not a whole lot of room for spectators. I think only 10-20 cameras could get a good view or maybe 30-40 people.


Here a view from the same spot looking down. It's a pretty steep climb as you can see from the guy making his way up. There are some spots along that edge you can watch from but they are not so comfy and less than the best view.


This is they guy who was in front of me with his huge lens. I bet he got better shots than me.


Here is the super cheap and small gheto lens extender rig I took with me. It's why my video is less than super. The clamp thing cost $20 from B&H Photo and totally worth it for lo-tech video. Though my rig is cheap and less than perfect I actually really enjoy the janky quality of the video I shoot with it.


All hooked up and ready to go. I hand held all of my shots and had to do a lot of post deshake to make it kind of watchable.


This is the end I spend most of my time looking at.

Fun at the Jetty

Got to the Jetty early and had plenty of time to surf thanks to the fall back.


Here is a mid size wave from this morning. There were bigger and smaller waves and most of them were clean and fun.


Shot this video. Just about everyone ended up getting caught inside when the set came through so I didn't really capture the magic that was happening here today but the video was okay so I put it up.

Novembers Starts off With a Bang

Yesterday was small mellow OB.

Today Not so much.


Nice.


And there is what OB is all about. Make sure to click on the images to see them bigger.

Halloween Surf

It was nice and foggy today.


Perfect for a Halloween Surf!


It was kind of small about waist to shoulder high.


I went out and got a bunch of waves a few were really fun.
Watch out for the fog people! Happy Halloween!

Sweet South Swell - July 25

It was a bit bigger today with the bigger sets in the at least double over head size. I have a sore elbow and only managed two waves before I got rolled a few times and decided to call it quits while I was ahead.

I have been taking the worst pictures this weekend but at least I was taking pictures!. At least they are in 3D! Even if they are in pretty flat/shallow 3d. I need to take my hyper stereo bar out with me so I can get more depth. Oh well.

Make sure to click on the images for a larger view.

This was the biggest wave I managed to get a picture of. How big does this look? 2x over head? It wasn't the biggest one we saw but it was the biggest anyone caught while I had my camera out. When I was getting out of the water I saw a guy gut a huge stand up barrel with room to spare and it was about the same size as this wave.


And here is a party wave -:]

Sweet South Swell - July 24

The surf has been pretty good the last few days and here is some proof. I wish I could have managed some better pictures but I think these show off the waves well enough. I would have shot video but I decided to spend more time surfing than worrying about taking pictures or video since I haven't been out on a day this good and bit in over a year thanks to my knee injury(s).

Be sure to click on the images to see bigger versions in stereo 3D!

This is about as small as it was


Look at that wave.


Close up of the same wave.


This is probably the most 3d of the pictures I got.


It was just really good.


Nice.


There were lots and lots of fun waves.


Here is one of the bigger waves from this Friday. What do you think, close to double over head?


This is a shot of the peak where we were surfing. I think most of the waves we got were in this range to a little bigger.

Kelly Ave

The waves ended up being pretty fun this morning.


Here is my buddy Eli who I surf with most of the time. I saw him get at least one wave better than this one but I didn't have my camera out.

Here are a few sequences of ED. Click on any of them to see a bigger version.









DOH! Didn't make it out.







Ed caught the most waves and had the best rides. He has also been surfing for a lot longer than us kooks. I only managed to score 2 decent rides today but that's better than some days I've had so I can't complain too much.