Spring Verses | Part 6 – April 18, 2011
Real tired but I’m super stoked on today’s edit – photos not so much. Some leftovers in the water still at dusk tonight – pretty amped overall for the storm and the boys. Thanks for checking out Alpine-Live.com…
Spring Verses | Part 5 – April 17, 2011
I haven’t seen the ocean churning like it was this morning in a long time, we’ve had a massive snow year without having any significant winter swells. It has been a pretty busy spring as far as surfing goes, a swell each week for the last month or two. The buoys were reading 15ft+ this morning and it showed at the beach, a massive washing machine all over. Finally a few guys decided to give it a go at the Rocks and across the way at Linkys. Broken boards, barrels and beach weather make for an awesome day. I’m not going to touch on the crowded roads or the insane parking jobs that I saw today because I know it’s going to get worse as the summer goes on. I will mention that it’s important to be safe, if you have any doubts about going into big surf on any particular day…think twice and choose another day, there will always be waves NEXT spring!
Below slideshow photos (except for two landscape photos that I cannot seem to be able to remove) by: Lucas Van Oss (alpine live media)
A few shots that got lost in the shuffle from last fall, enjoy.
ND Filter | Sunrise – April 14, 2011
(Updated 10:30pm)
After the sunrise I got some shots at the red carpet a.k.a. shit shacks.
I purchased a new photography tool called a Reverse Grad ND filter, it’s a pretty simple concept but I wouldn’t really be able to explain it very well. Basically the graduated tint in the filter allows me to place the filter along the horizon and block out some of the light from the sun, allowing the foreground to maintain a proper exposure. A lot of sunrise and direct sun photography will be blown out or over exposed in the foreground because of the sunlight. Here are my first attempts at using it:
Snoe.Down. | March 25-28, 2011
Moe. weekend at Killington. Saving this spot for a later post.
Note: Lucas and I would like to give a special thanks to Bill and Joe from Swany gloves, they went above and beyond on this adventure to make it as productive as possible – could not have even experienced this weekend without them. Also a thanks to Hal from HK Entertainment, Hal got us the Moe. interview as well as got our cameras into the show both nights despite strict regulations and guidelines – THANK YOU HAL AND SWANY!
During our off-time we got some turns in at Killington, the umptillionth pow turn of the season.
Gas Station Chicken. This was one angry chicken, it chased me to my car at the gas station, the owner told us he was waiting until the kindergarten class came for a field trip and then he’s gonna kill it.
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