JAWS

JAWS

Yesterday we ventured to JAWS! A nice early morning wake up was met with a beautiful sunrise and some killer waves. The swells where between 20-27ft or so and building. Upon arriving at Jaws, you realize how far the waves really are form the shoreline. You basically stand on a cliff overlooking the water and have to jockey for position with all the crowds and photographers that are already set up. Apparently when JAWS is going off, people fly in from all around the world to surf its swells.

I started shooting with my 300mm 2.8 lens and my Nikon D4s, but then soon realized that I needed more resolution and switched out to my Nikon D800.

It is hard to explain how amazing it looks to see massive waves rolling in and tiny little ant looking riders paddling into them unassisted.

Here are some pic's from the morning!

Azore Gigabytes

Azore Gigabytes

After 8 days in the Azores, my hard drives are full and my computer has grinned to a halt! I leave the Azores with over 200GB worth of Images saved to my drives. The Nikon D800's Raw files prove to be both amazing and overwhelming when it comes to workflow and file handling.

Shooting Raw on this trip was not even a question. Why when you have the ability to shoot at 36 MP would you not? I can't wait to get my hands on my new Pentax 645Z and then I will truly experience the frustration the "spinning circle of death" on my Mac!

Ok that is enough camera Geek for now.

Here are some more shots from our 8 days on the Island!!! More to come over the next week.

Panorama Stitched together in Autopan pro.

Panorama Stitched together in Autopan pro.

Panorama Stitched together in Autopan pro.

Panorama Stitched together in Autopan pro.

Haida Gwaii 2014

Haida Gwaii 2014

I headed up to Haida Gwaii to shoot for the West Coast Fishing Club for a couple of times this summer. Always lots to see and lots to shoot.

Here is a collection of some of the images.

Fishing Continues

Fishing Continues....

Here are more shots from our 3 months of Fishing in Pina's Bay, Panama. Some of these images where taken aboard the Picaflor, under the direction of Captain Adolfo. The first Marlin gave us a dazzling display. Jumping straight at us. The boat was powering forward and Justin, the angler, was reeling as fast as he could in order to take up line. When I get a chance later in the week, I will post the video that goes along with this fight. It was pretty amazing to see this fish jump like this. Nice release on the fish after as well.

Justin reeling his heart out to try and take up line on this crazy jumping fish.

This Marlin just kept jumping and jumping. These are the flights that photographers dream of.

Hook out and lure back, the boys release this nice Marlin.

The special Lure to win them all! Custom Made by Matt, even has our Mates face pictured in the Lure.

Marlin's Bill hitting the drop back bait

Mike Crossland taking a breather on his nice Blue Marlin

Justin trying his hand at pitching a fly back to a sailfish. The sail hit the lure a couple of times, but just couldn't get her to bite.

Nice Sail, our Mate Jonathan almost got a Bill in his arm.

JACK!!!!

The Captain looking over things!

Playa Muerto-Continued

Playa Muerto- Continued......

Here is the continuation of the Embera people in the Village of Playa Muerto.

If you come to this page first then here is the link for the other Playa Muerto Post: Playa Muerto, Panama

The view of Playa Muerto from a small hill beside the village.

A group of girls managed to snag some of the stickers from me. I gave up trying to give them out individually. The kids where better at picking them off then I was.

This is the Mother and Father of our Captain Adolfo. His mother is over 90 years old, while his father is over 106 years old. They are incredible people and where very gracious to allow me to take some photographs of them.

To see him walk out of his house to say hello at the age of 106 is humbling.

I got my own coconut to sip on. It was delicious!

This man was making some art work carving a very hard wood called Cocobolo.

The view looking down at Playa Muerto.

I was told that they make bread in this out door mud oven.

A typical village house. You can see they collect a lot of things that wash up on the shore. Anything that can be used will be used.

Outdoor bathroom. All the cloths laying around look kinda like a typical kids thing to do.

A lot of the people keep chickens under their homes. I also saw a small pig pen set up under one of the homes as well.

A nice looking roof on this house.

 Doing laundry!

 There are some solar panels through out the village and fashion and style never take a holiday!

My fellow tourist, Susie!