K38 Baja Sunday

Another great weekend and sunset at K38.  Excellent weather, good surf and better friends.

Kicking Back In Baja

Spent last week in Baja at the house, K38.  Surfed a few days, saw a bunch of friends and generally kicked back.  The surf wasn't all that great but it's always great to be in the water.  The sunset image was fun it make as the sun was setting into a heavy cloud bank.

Taking A Rest

I made this image a little while back on one of my trips to the Pacific Coast.  I really like this image but what a shot it would make if it was under full sails out at sea.  I've seen a few tall ships while I was working on the east coast but it has been some time sense I've seen one on the west coast.

Petroglyph/Picture Rock National Site

After spending a week in Baja and San Diego doing surfing photography using my new 600mm lens I headed back to Tucson.  I finally decieded to stop at Petroglyph/Picture Rock National Site. It is as beautiful as I have ever seen a petroglyph site with so many petroglyphs or as some call them "picture rocks"

.  The site dates from 800 to 1200 AD and is located less than a half an hour north of I-8.  The site is just west of Gila Bend, Arizona.  I've passed the turn off to this site literally hundreds of times it seems but never took the time to visit, sure glad I did this time.

Shore Birds

These beautiful shore birds are from California and Baja California photographed on various trips up and down the coast doing my surfing photographing thing.  All birds large and small are amazing as they survive in some harsh environments.  Looking back at these images I always remember the location that the image was made and would like to go back to all of them.

2-28-2014 More Jetty Surfing

I can't believe this new 600mm lens, it's so sharp but really heavy.  I'll have to figure out someway to haul the heavy thing around.  Still learning how to track and keep the surfer in focus.  It's a lot of fun but I hate to wait for the sets to come in.

2-26-2014 Surfing Mission Bay Jetty

Yesterday's shoot with the 600mm telephoto lens was great.  This shoot was more of a test on how fast the lens would react to the motion of the surfer.  I can't believe how sharp the images came out.  That lens is really heavy and it wasn't easy jumping from rock to rock working my way out on the jetty to a good shooting location.