South hamming

The flat spell is finally over although it took a trip to the soth coast to break it, good old versitile Devon always comes into its own over the winter months. It was proper wintery this morning aswell, the temperature was reading -4 whislt defrosting the car. The icy condtions made driving interesting as Mr.Ryan and the Ringmore bus shelter found out.

Stacked

Local  hospitalty

Lone soldier at chally first thing.

Rivermouth

Mattz

Chally



Chally



Chally

Catch of the day

Me old man with his 12lb 8oz Bass caught today

Winter warmers

Peak

Peak

 Pipe

Yup thats sweat, JR is a sweaty man

A mad scotsmen and sea snake

A few from lakeys this winter, if i think of warm times maybe i'lll warm up

Experimentation

It's flat and freezing cold so i'm playing on photoshop, not sure if i like this or really hate this, brightens up a dull day a little

Wardo's artwork

Little exhibit of Mr Ryan Ward's artwork, talented artist and designer currently working for Alder, hit him up on facebook to see more

Funny ha

Cotty's Devon write up in wavelength, sorry about the poor picture, phone pic in asda's (didn't want to pay for the mag!)

Kirra

 Well it's flat as a witch's out there so I thought i'd share some shots from past travels with you. Here's a little snippet from Kirra back at the start of 2009.

Mick Fanning

 

Dean Morrison

Dean Morrison

Unknown, but i like'd him as he rode far enough down the point to get the high rises of surfers in the background

Lyndaka

Pretty dam good waves today, these are before the tide turned, it was a bit special once it started pushing

Triple Crown

It's triple crown time folks! 3 weeks live streaming straight from the north shore of Oahu. Thanks to the time difference you can rock up from work have some tea, crack open a cold beer and enjoy all the action. The legends provided the best action from the day yesterday check it out, Tom Curren, Tom Carrol, Occy and Sunny Garcia at 10 feet Haleiwa it doesn't get any better.

A little too windy

Ed, 6 frames / 3 frames per second = at least 2 seconds hang time

Dan rigging too big of a sail

Ed, look back

Andy B off to the moon

Ed

Dan

Bit windy today, that's about all I have to say apart from thanks again to Dan for the lend of his 10-22mm canon. cheers

Nearly the money shot

Happy with the composition but its just not sharp enough, damn low light english autumns. Jordan Reed, low tide Croyde 9/11/10

Note to self, stop posting b&w shots go find some sunshine!

Croyde this arvo

Post surf line up

Well I did say this morning i'd try a bit harder to get some shots and I think I suceeded. Got an awsome sequence of Mr.Reed but it's off to the Mags tomorrow so i'm saving them for another day. Got to keep you wanting more!

Lyndon, this is the last shot in the sequence, the next shot is from earlier that wave

Lyndon on a warper

Chocolate shake

Jord's bonce

A stoked Mr.Reed

Chilly

Dan

Andy B

Andy B and Edd

Mark Mc

Edd

Edd riding Andy B looking on

Real taste of winter this morning, and i didn't even get wet. Nice to get some shots, been surfing a lot lately but never seem to get chance to even get a line up shot.

Lip

Finner

At least I think thats the 'new school' term for this.

R.I.P Andy Irons

Couldn't not pay my respects to Andy, RIP

Victory lap

 Had a nice little victory lap surf this morning, even bust out the camera for a bit as the light was so good first thing, although it had diminished by the end of the session as you can see from the second shot. My theory that alot of this photography buisness is down to the kit in your hand was reinforced today as well. The first shot is taken on my 400d with a Canon 52mm f1.8 prime lens and to be fair i couldn't be happier with the clarity of the shot. Where as the second is still on the 400d but with my bottom of the range sigma 75-300mm and you can see for yourself the lower quality of the shot, someone buy me some new kit!!!

Anyhow, Jord was on top form this morning fresh off his high from scoring the highest heat total of the Inter clubs and bagging himself a new wettie from Tiki. Before paddling out I said to just go for it while I was shooting as it didn't matter if he fell for the purpose of getting a shot, so he went for it and only actually fell once or twice the whole session, me thinks someone has been holding back his surfing a bit.

Victory

Westward Surf Club take out the open division at the National Inter clubs!!!
No one seems to be able to remember the last time Westward Ho! had a team entered into the inter clubs but we made a comeback this year only to take out the open division. It was a massive team effort from the boys including Jordan Reed (captain), Stuart Wheatley, Alex Downie, Mike Plackett, Rob M Greenslade and myself. The Saunton Hotdoggers even looked like they would place in the top three after a solid performance on the saturday, but with a dieing swell and a shortboard judging criteria Croyde A managed to fight back to take 3rd place with Woolacombe A coming in second. Croyde took out the Team title as they were the only club to enter a women's team.
Got to say a massive thanks to Croyde and contest director Matt Knight for hosting the event, as it was thoroughly enjoyed by all involved. Also thanks to Huey for supplying the solid swell even if it did give us all a good kicking on Saturday! Check out www.robtibbles.com for more photo's.