Drive to surf.

So this morning we woke up and cruised to surf OB this morning again.  I surfed today if was super fun some sick ones.  These are some of the happenings on the way to surf.

Walking

Cruised around San Francisco last night.  Walked all the way down to Haight.  Really cool experience SF is an amazing place of diversity and humbling situations.  Enjoy the photography.

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!

                         

                       

Andrew Molera

Just got back from an extremely successful trip to Big Sur.  About three weeks ago I pitched the idea to my friends seen below.  Originally they were on edge but I encouraged them we would score as there was an incoming swell that I had been looking at in the northern Pacific and a definitely swell that would be dying on the date we arrived. Everything ended up nearly perfect for us.  We arrived at Andrew Molera camp grounds at about 11am and by the time everything was set up at the hike on camp site we went straight the River-mouth with our stuff ready to surf.  The first day was pretty fun no one out at all and about 2-3 foot surf at a right point break. The best day was Saturday as shown below a picture of me one of my friends happened to snap while taking a breather on the beach.  It was about 3-5 feet with maybe 10 people out.  We did not end up even checking it on Sunday because we were making our way down the coast that day but the swell had definitely filled in and it was most likely bigger and less closed out. No complaints though a full day of surfing a right hand point break with an non-existent crowd for southern Californians.

 The Boys Trevor, Vince, and Jake standing in front of the river which helps keep the rock and gravel bottom point break.

 A picture Jake took of me while he was cruising on the beach.  In the end I was bummed I didn't shoot because this set-up is unreal.  But we already decided another trip is definitely necessary.

Tristan Cronshaw

This is a little throwback to a couple months ago.  Over summer we had a decent run of swell but the winds were always bad near Newport in the arvo  so we took a bunch of quick trips to Salt Creek and other southern spots along with some northern spots.  This is my buddy Tristan Cronshaw who rides for HippyTree, one of the sickest companies that's fairly new to the scene. This shot is from a short but sweet video we made, well I made he surfed haha. The video can be viewed HERE and helped him get a VZ sponsor.  A new video is in the works titled "Your Life is On Repeat" more about that soon some initial filming has been done.  The video is more of a lifestyle video supported with a few clips. Below is a long exposure of Salt Creek. Followed by Tristan himself.

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.  

Travel

Travelling through the pines of big sur a couple weekends ago.  Slow Shutter speed with some reflection off the back window.  Taken with 200 iso colour film on my Nikon FE.  I love that camera.  Its more rugged and durable then anything made these days and even with a canon 7D I enjoy the quality and feel of using the nikon.  The whole argument of which is better is lame in my opinion.  If your above using a camera at your disposal because of the brand then you will never be-able to create truly organic art. Shadowed single fin travelling below also shot at a slow shutter speed to blur everything but the shadow.

Sand Dollar

Big Sur at Sand Dollar Beach.  This is a mile wide cove that is protected nearly from every direction. Its a beach break with really clean long lines unlike HB or NB it actually is good.  Long lines that push towards shore.  I surfed my single fin that I shaped the entire time while I was in Big Sur.  It worked really well for me in overhead sets here.  These shots are from the second day and shot with my 35mm Nikon FE and Ikelite waterhousing.  I had already surfed for a couple hours and really wanted to get some shots.  These are two of my favorite shots from the entire trip including the ones I shot out of the water.  This place is truly amazing would not mind living here for an extended amount of time at one point in my life.