Surfing The Mission Beach Jetty 5-8-2014

These are some photos taken last thursday afternoon at the Mission Beach Jetty using a Nikon 600mm lens.  A little cloud cover but a nice afternoon with a few good surfers.

Kayaking Off Of La Salina, Baja MX

On saturday the 3rd of May I went kayaking with J-P, my son and Steve a friend of ours.  We headed out of La Salina which is about 70 plus kilometers below the border in Baja to go fishing.  Steve was the one who caught all the fish and I'm sure they ended up as fish tacos.  The big adventure of the day was the whale migration as we saw between 25 to 30 whales.  We were fishing/paddling around the kelp beds and here came the whales in small groups of 2 to 3 with lots of calfs.  They were feeding on bait fish which we saw a lot.  They all surfaced close to us and several were very near as we kept any noise down to a very low level.  I was shooting with my Gopro camera which has a very wide angle lens so it is had to get a clear picture of how close they were.  It couldn't have been a better day with all the whales, dolphins and a seal here and there.

I've been painting mostly surfers these past ten days or so.  I plan on using these images on canvas as a sort of gallery that will hang from my camper roof down both sides of the camper

.  I'll have a total of twelve canvases to try to garner interest in my work.  I usually work from in the surf break using my Nikon D800 with a flash all contained in two waterhousings.  It gets a bit much when I go into the surf 2 to 4 times a day, especially when putting on a cold wet wetsuit.  With this new 600mm telephoto lens I'm sure that I can get some great images and not have to work my butt off as much.

Mission Bay Jetty Surfing

I shot a photograph of this surfer a couple of weeks back.  Been working on this painting using the photo as a guide for most of the day.  Spent last week in a painting class taught by Maryln Sholin up in Sonora, California.  Learned a lot to say the least and am now trying to apply the skills that I learned.  Sonora is located in the California gold country north of Yosemite.  It was great to be back in the area as I lived there for four years back in the 1980's.