Next month will be my two year anniversary that SurfingEye Images has been open for print sales and private shoots.  It has been surprisingly successful, and always wonderful to think that people like my photos enough to have them hanging in their homes.  I will post a promotion and contest to celebrate this next month. 

With that…I am going to be removing many images from the various galleries on my site.  I am removing images that have never sold to make way for new shots.  With that said, if you did want an image that was removed, I can always call them up easily. 

I hope to have the new look site done by May 1. 

Here is an example of a few of the images that will be removed:

As I posted last week, I did some shooting at sunset the previous week.  Some of the waves were pretty heavy, but I came away with a couple of nice ones…

I love the light coming through the back of the wave and hitting the lip.

This was one of the bigger waves from this night...I had to ask if this kid was okay.  Such a heavy wave..

More shots will be available in my Recents gallery this week...

From time to time, I like to play around with the slow shutter wave shots..  My favorite time to use this technique is sun rise.  Mostly because you can get some nice yellows and oranges from the sun rise. 

However, last week I was in the water at sunset and as the sun begins to dip towards the horizon, the light gets a lot lower, and the shutter has to come down to keep the same apature and focus point.. .

I got a couple that I came away from that I enjoyed.  Nothing really great.. but some fun ones…

I thought this one was kinda cool.  It is a sort of over/under type shot...

One thing I do like the with slow shutter shots is lines that little drops of water makes...

This one was my favorite.  I like the "teeth" that the lip created and that you can still see how glassy it was that night...

Hope you enjoy… Comments are always welcome...

Last week I took the morning off and did a little wave shooting in La Jolla.  When I got to the beach, it was how it has been for a while, gloomy and overcast.  But the shore-break was good so I got in anyway… To my surprise by the time I got my camera in my housing, wetsuit on and walked down to the beach, the sun had come out.

When the sun came out, I noticed that the water was as clear as I have ever seen it in La Jolla.  I came away with a few gems (so I think).  Here are a few:

You can see more in the Recent of SoCal gallery.  I have also put a few in the Featured gallery that you can check out…

Hope you enjoy!

Over a month ago, I decided to invest in SPL flash housing for my 580exII Canon Flash.  I wanted to start doing some night wave shooting.  I saw that as a great new challenge in my surf / wave photography.  Over the last few months, I have been getting some really good, deep barrel shots and wanted a new way to challenge myself with this type of photography. 

Since I got this back in March, I have been able to use it three times.  The first two times, were epic failures.  Both times, the waves were good and thought I could have gotten some really good stuff.  I under-estimated how difficult this photography was.  So before going out last night, I spent some time in my office trying to get my settings (both camera and flash) down before wasting my time again. 

So last night after the sun went under, I strapped on the flash housing and made my way back to into the water...While there is still a lot I can do to get better at this, I did finally come away with a few shots that I liked… Let me know what you think of these shots…feel free to shoot me a comment..

Night time Over/Under

I have been uploading shots to a private gallery on my site to publish to everyone, and have been forgetting to actually publish them to everyone…

Well, here is the first round of new shots…Check out my “recent” folder (Galleries -> Recent).  I will be posting new shots here each day this week to catch up… Hope you enjoy!

Here are a couple that were just put there...

Water photography for me, is not all about what I get from the camera, but more about what the ocean gives back to me.  I went out a couple times this past weekend (Friday night and Saturday morning respectively).  Getting in the water has been tougher and tougher of late with the new family.  Friday night (March 22) was the first time I was able to get in the water since March 3^rd.  As soon as I got in though, it reenergized me, calmed me, and brought me back from all the tension and stress that can build on a person.  More proof to that point… I spent 2 hours in the water on Friday night, and didn’t keep a single shot.  Not even for Instagram.  But, I had a blast as always.

Some people go and get a message…..me, I will let the ocean be my therapy.

It was a sharp contrast in the 12 hours that was away from the water though.  Friday night had a great sunset without a cloud in the sky.  Saturday had no sun and clouds for days...

Here are some of the shots that I go from Saturday's session...

The rest of the shots, and more, will be posted soon...