Merry Christmas..

Super white Christmas where I was, with still about 20cm from earlier that week, which was pretty sick.

New Years Day

2010

3 Story's..

Just found this when I was trawling through old 4 corners articles, I remember writing this about the night after the comp at bos last year, and then showing it to the guy in question before I sent it to length to get published... turned out he was not at all happy with it, so offered me an alternative.

So here's three versions of the same story, mine, his, and the one that went in the mag.. I'll let you guess which is which (and decide which is the truest).

"With one of the local competitors getting caught taking a school boy piss (trousers round his ankles) out in the street by some middle aged women who were not at all impressed and gave him a serious dressing down and walked of muttering about the state of the youth. This was further made worse by some surfers who had travelled down deciding to make their walk from one bar to the next a bit more exciting by jumping off the roofs of cars...."

"With one of the local competitors taking a walk on the wildside after offering to reduce the que for the toilets by watering the plants, went for the schoolboy (trousers down around ankles) it was all going well until he was approached by the cougar who gave him a right bollocking although he did live to tell the tale and was seen at the bar beer in hand five later!...."

"One particular un-named local, who was out on the pull and managed to ruin his chances with a group of birds by going for school boy piss (trousers round the ankles) out in the street, which apparently is not as much of a turn on as one might think as when he got caught and the girls were not at all impressed.. and to add insult to injury he’d got knocked out in the first round of the open mens earlier that day!.... "

"The next day was sunny and flat, with the odd sup race to help shake off the after effects of the night before (and of course build core strength) which rounded off the weekend pretty nicely."

Could do with some waves soon.

Home town..

Recently I was set the task of producing 8 photographs of the place where I live, with a theme or narrative running through the images, with the deadline two weeks away. Ironically in the 3 years I've been shooting, my home town is probably the place I've shot the least photos. It was stipulated 4 of these photos had to be portraits and after spending a while stressing for a theme that was a little bit out of the box, a tricky task as the place I live could not be more inside the box, I gave in and just embraced the clichéd nature of the project brief, choosing the theme of pride. Here's a couple of em;

Fingers crossed for some swell soon.

Projects..

Currently working on two very different projects..one from each: