Charcoal Pencil

Was bored and did some art today.  The top is a piece of PU foam that I cut out of a board that I snapped a while back.  I planed off the yellow foam to see how the planer works on PU since I have never shaped one before.  I did this in preparation for the next board I will be shaping.  Its going to be a gunned out 6'6" single fin; I have not decided yet if I want to put bonzers on it but I have plenty of time to decide(still have to shape the board and paint/draw on it).  Speaking of painting and drawing.  The above picture is also my test on drawing with charcoal pencil on a surfboard blank. As you can see from above I am happy with how it came out and most likely going to draw a similar pattern on the deck of the 6'6" single.  Excited to continue shaping some boards got ideas for a couple more once that tax return comes in.Though my first priority is buying a plane ticket more about that later though.

This below is a drawing I did in my notebook a while back that I scanned and cleaned up with the help of some Adobe products.  Not sure what I am going to do with it but most likely put it on rice paper and glass it to a board.  From what the words say I think it would be fitting to put on a twin fin. A twin fin is planned for the tax return boards.

Long Exposed Big Sur

                 

Big sur campgrounds made for some great long exposures. All of these are from my Canon 7d and are around 20-30 minutes. I will have two more from my Kodak Retina that are around 1-3 hours. Enjoy!

                         

                       

Working Bench

                               Above is the work beach.  Taken with my canon 7d featuring the tools I have been using as of recently.  These tools are some of the most useful tools for me lately.  Shaping another surfboard right now featured below.  Its not completed but its going to be a 5'6" quad with a weird diamond tail(i might change this to a normal diamond tail but as of now I like how it looks and am interested on its performance).  The camera picture is a 50mm Argus Rangefinder aka the Brick.  Its a cool little 35mm camera though it has no built in light meter so lately I have either carried around an extra camera, usually my 7D, or done my best at guessing a decent exposure.  The aperture range goes 3.5, 4, 5.6, 8,11, 16.  While the shutter speed range from 10-300.  

Road on the Coast

Just another Road on the Coast to no where. "Quiet Refuge from the storms of Life"  Finals are almost over and it will be time to hit the road for a short amount of time before the holiday activities leading up to xmas with the fam.  Nikon FE with expired 35mm film.

Watershots

Here is a photo I shot using my Nikon Fe with my Ikelite Warehousing.  I used a 50mm lens and had the aperture set to f11.  There was plenty of light so the shutter speed stayed high so no motion blur would occur.  I decided to use f11 over f16 because even though the depth of field would be greater the shutter speed had a chance of going too low and causing some motion blur.  The range of expectable focus with f11 was set to ~10-30 feet.  This made it perfect for shooting this day because the current was decently strong(and due to one of my friends having my good fins I only had one to swim around.) Pictured above is my manager from work and below is one of my friends(and subsequently my new manager haha) from work.  Both images will most likely be used at my art show on the 16 of November at the Crossing Church in Costa Mesa.  These along with a good amount of double exposures I did and am extremely happy with the results(though the person picture isn't completely stoked but thats how the cookie crumbles I guess).  Unfortunately I will not be posting any of them until after the show.

Vast

Taken Somewhere in Central California.  I took this shot with a 35mm Nikon FE coming down the coast on a surfing/ camping trip with one of my other buddies.  We spent 5 nights in 5 different cities and traveled 1500 miles.  Each day we had no clue what we were doing / where we were going.  This picture represents the limitlessness of a road trip.

50 Shades of Purple

Every once in a while a Sunset is something you just can not pass up.  Despite some popular belief that a picture of a sunset is a quick one too and that's just what you get this photo would be impossible for your iphone to take unless you have some alternative apps and a lot of time.  Normally the background of this would be over exposed or the foreground just a silhouette. And for you brainiacs out there this isn't 2 photos the tones and exposure would still be off of what i was trying to achieve.