Costa Rica..

Been here about a week now and its so sick, the break which I'm staying at, called playa negra has a super nice right hand reef break and some sick lefts in the bay next to it. Got some better shots today but misplayed my card reader, so here's some from yesterday: Despite the fact the place with internet at the hotel is the only air conditioned building in the vicinity and its the first time ive experience cold since i've been here, I want to leave and go for a surf, so will upload more tommorow.

Bournemouth Friday..

Went to Bournemouth friday to shoot a bit of blown out slop, here's two.

Bos reef was... err doing this.

Mason Alderman making the best of the deminishing swell.

Mark throwing up some spray

A lake..

Spotted this super secluded lake in the middle of a bunch of fields near my house on google maps a few weeks ago, and today me and one of my mates decided to go on a mission to find it. After about an hour and half of trekking through fields, jumping over rivers and getting stung the shit out of we made it and wow, was it sick. Looked really good for a lot of water sports (although not surfing unfortunately), but absolutely ideal for whinching/wakeskating, as its surrounded by trees to block out the wind so would be pretty glassy all the time, and we found a really good spot you could put the winch. Although access would be an issue. Enough description, here's some photos:

Google maps view:

The first of many photos of the Lake (hopefully the others will have blue sky in the background and wakeskaters in the foreground)


Costa rica trip in 8 days- so amped.

Summer..

22nd July - 22nd August is going to be a extremely good few weeks, Costa Rica for 2 weeks then kernow for 3. Seriously lookin forward to surfing in boardee's and a t-shirt in the 30 degrees C water at Playa Negra and having a pint and listening to Newton Falkner at Boardmasters.

Having a website..

feels like having a small child... it requires so much looking after. Unfortunately that's as far as I can take that analogy, and am too tired to think of a better one, so you'll have to make do. My site has been down for absolutely ages now, and I have no idea why. Despite emailing weycrest who host my web space, numerous times, nothing seems to have been done which is very irritating. As well as the obvious annoyance caused by the fact you can no longer view my photos online a friend of mine pointed out to me the other day that people may see the shitty pirate space add site that has replaced it and think it is mine, which considering the amount of time I have spent trying to make my website look good, I just cant stand the thought of, so im hoping it gets sorted soon.
Anyway, enough whinging.. Costa Rica trip in 20 days. So amped.

Glastonbury..

So just got back from the most amazing place in the world.. I met some of the most interesting people in the country, so far removed from the bubble I seem to have been forced to float around in, chilled in the most exciting and surreal places and of course watched some insane live music. I can say without a doubt it was the most incredible 5 days of my life so far and to try and encapsulate it in words (and even photos) is an incredible tricky task, especially since all I took was a little digi. But here are a couple:

Sunset at the Pyramid Stage- 8:16 PM


Sunrise at the park - 3:26 AM

I know its incredible cliche but the early hours of the morning at glasto really are some of the best, its the time when the most weird stuff happens, and you meet the weirdest people. Here's a photo from sunrise at stone circle- 4:28 AM. Click to see it big

Dizzee Rascal on the Pyramid

After Thinktank skate...

Here's some shots from the after thintank skate:

Ollie Moore, Ollie North.

Ollie Moore

Ollie Moore

Reed Watson.
Unfortunatly im camera-less at the moment, as the internal motor gave up at the end of this session, so some of the projects I had planned for the next week are going to have to go on hold, with one in perticular im very annoyed about.

ThinkTank..

Headed down for the final day of Thinktank on Monday and even though the weather was supposed to be sick and wasn't was still a really good event with some seriously impressive
wakeskating going on both on the rails and stair set and behind the ski. Here's some photos:

American wakeskater Reed Watson kick flip down the stair set. Click to see it big.


Matt Crowhurst's still got it. Styley front board, Click to see it big.


Reed again, Nose press. Click to see it big.


Liam Smith busting a shove down the stair set. Click to see it big.


Will Bradley, Click to see it big.


Unfortunately the light wasn't great but the riders were really tearing it up behind the ski, with Ollie Moore (pictured) and Reed Watson as the stand outs. Click to see it big.
After the wakeskating shot a skate session on this little ghetto flat bank (was some wood propped up by tyres and two old barrels) in the middle of the woods with Reed, Liam and Ollie, was pretty sick, photos coming soon.

Bournemouth UKPST...

I noticed that Bournemouth has bagged itself an event on the UKPST, which although undoubtedly due to the artificial reef, which has recently been deemed an official failure, is good news. Although frankly with the amount of tourism and media interest it has generated, who's to say the reef hasn't achieved its objective? I mean yea, it doesn't do what it said on the tin waves wise, but all that doubling the amount of surfable days, longer rides, heaving barrel stuff has always sounded a bit too good to be true. So lets hope the piers can get they're act together for the comp and throw up some decent naturally breaking waves, which despite public opinion, is very much on the cards.

Weverson ,on the 4th of October two years ago, just before tucking into easily the longest barrel I've seen in Bournemouth, but unfortunately I was still shooting on a one frame per second ultra zoom digi at the time (so no sequence), so you'll just have to take my word for it.

You would be forgiven...

For thinking that I'd totally given up on this photography lark. And frankly the amount I've posted this month has been pretty reflective of how shit it's been, with all my time being taken up with exams and coursework deadlines, but thankfully all that is all over now, and I can get back to taking pictographs. So much stuff coming up over summer, with the most imminent being Thinktank wakeskate jam this weekend, and its shaping up to be something pretty special. So check back soon.

One from last year. Terry Hannam backside boardslide on the hand rail.