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.

El Porto Surfer Portraits

My old site had a bunch of portraits that I had taken of some of the surfers that call El Porto their home break.  I removed that old gallery of images when I went to this blog format for the site and figured that I would slowly begin adding the portraits back while mixing in some other images from my archives.

These are all portraits that I had taken several years ago using my Hasselblad and the standard 80mm lens with Ilford Delta 100 film.  Charley and Rick are still out at El Porto on a regular basis.  Ted Robinson moved to Orange County a few years back and we don’t get to see him out in the lineup very much unfortunately.

Rick Noguchi

Ted and Jordan Robinson

Charley Finney

Sunday Turns Rainy

Today started off with beautiful sunny weather.  It was warm and the surf was fun.  Nate and I spent a couple hours at Uncle Shoe Dogg’s pad to watch the Vikings obliterate the Dallas Cowboys.  It wasn’t a great game, but it was cool to watch Brett Favre playing so well.

As the day went on, clouds started coming in and we started to get the rain that we had been promised by the weather forecast.  We went indoors for the birthday of one of Nate’s classmates.  After a couple hours of running around we finally drove home and we’ve called it a day.

Although I don’t do it often, I enjoy taking photographs in the rain (especially at night) because the wet ground reflects all of the lights in a particular scene.  The next several days are supposed to be rainy so maybe I’ll get some cool shots and post.

My Wingnose Fin

Nate's Toy BMX Bike

Running around the Party

Wave Dave

This is a portrait I took of Wave Dave standing next to his old Ranchero after a session at El Porto.  He is a super nice guy.  He can get a bit grumpy about the crowds, but he does it in a way that makes you smile.  And he likes to wear his surf trunks over his wetsuit.  Gotta love Wave Dave.

Wave Dave

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