From the One California Day World Premiere

Back in July of 2007, Jason Baffa and Mark Jeremias debuted their film, One California Day, at El Segundo High School to a packed house of people hungry to see some great surf footage.  The movie delivered great surf footage in spades featuring surfers such as the Malloy brothers, Joel Tudor, Alex Knost, and Tyler Hatzikian.  But it also gave a glimpse into the lives of the surfers themselves.  We were able to see the surfers and their other creative outlets which gave the movie its intimate perspective.

Just prior to the start of the movie, I was able to shoot the following image of Jason Baffa and Mark Jeremias along with Tyler Hatzikian, Dan Malloy, Chris Malloy, and Keith Malloy.  I shot the image using a Sinar P 4×5 view camera on Polaroid Type 55 P/N film.

From left: Tyler Hatzikian, Jeff Johnson, Mark Jeremias, Jason Baffa, Keith Malloy, Chris Malloy, and Dan Malloy

From left: Tyler Hatzikian, Jeff Johnson, Mark Jeremias, Jason Baffa, Keith Malloy, Chris Malloy, and Dan Malloy

That was 3 years ago.  Check out what Chris Malloy, Jeff Johnson, and Keith Malloy have been up to lately.  The world premiere of 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless was February 10, at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.  See the trailer here.  It looks like an amazing film.

Damian Fulton Portrait

I had the distinct pleasure of photographing Damian Fulton about 5 months ago.  Not only is Damian an amazing artist (I’m a huge fan of his), but he is one of the nicest guys you could meet.  I’ve gotten to know Damian over the past several years because he is an El Porto surfer.

Damian lives a beach lifestyle, but it’s a beach lifestyle in one of the busiest metropolitan cities in the world (Los Angeles, that is).  Damian’s surf art is all about the juxtaposition of beach life and the trappings of an urban environment.  I wanted to capture that same vibe in a portrait of the artist.  The red and white smokestacks in El Segundo appear in many of Damian’s paintings and I felt that doing a beach portrait with the smokestacks in the background would provide the visual tie between the artist and his art.

I shot the following image using my Sinar P 4×5 on Fuji Neopan 100 black and white film.  I used Photoshop to combine the image with a scan of a glass plate negative to give it the old film feel.

Damian Fulton Portrait

Site Redesign and First Pic of the Blog!

I realize that it has been a while since I’ve done anything new on this website.  The main reason is that it wasn’t exactly easy to make changes to it.  So I have decided to switch to a blog type website using WordPress.  This will definitely make it easier for me to share more recent photographs I’ve taken.

To kick things off, I thought I’d post an oldie but a goodie.  This is a portrait I took of surfer/shaper, Tyler Hatzikian using a 4×5 Sinar P and my last few sheets of Polaroid type 55 film.

Tyler Hatzikian, his balsa chip, and his 1950 Mercury