I swing widely between doctrines of surf photography;
One is to shoot any and every surf... basically if there are surfers surfing and have fun then you could be shooting. I tend to sit more in this camp. But then there's the perfectionists, the surf photographers that ardently believe that every surf shot should be ....perfect. Perfect light, perfect waves, aspirational. Of course their show reels and social media are highly curated and crafted to look amazing...and they do. Over the last week I really flummoxed myself trying to do the latter.
There were moments of goodness for sure, but Spring weather is wily. Changeable and fast in doing so. The wagon was loaded with the cameras all week, quite a few K's were ticked up driving up and down Piha's marine parades.
Stu, Behind you!
Ultimately I fizzled out, zagged instead of zigging, picked the wrong tides, committed to other social engagements and throughly frustrated myself looking for diamonds in the rough. It happens, you just gotta keep on keeping on.
AND Deeeeen...
I don't know about this, as I do most firmly sit in the face for radio and voice for writing category. Despite knowing better, I let me old mate Cale Tolley [that's him above and above] con me into guinea pigging his new Pod Cast Talks With Thomas. It came out pretty good! Check it out HERE
AND DEEEN...
This good thing has been taking up all the time between shoots and false starts. Over on the PhotoCPL Instagram page there have been big, long posts about some of the favourite images that appear in the book.
If you want a bit more info about the book and a bit of the behind the scenes stuff check the posts on Insty HERE
Did you know Warren Hawke and I have published a new book? I know, it's a shock aye, never would have guessed. We are at the 'holy shit, we've just paid out thousands for printing and graphic art, are we gonna recoupe'- stage, you'd think after eleven books this wouldn't be a factor. We will, Warren has made a banger of a surf book. But since we are here, how would you like to ease that stress a little and take advantage of the pre sale offer. Commit now and you get free P&P nationwide. Offer is open until 20 October. Check it out HERE