surfer portraits

It’s just plain flat today and no one is surfing, so instead of spending my time shooting, I have put together a new gallery featuring portraits of our local ocean lovers. The “surfer portraits” series is something we intend on expanding over the coming months and years, but to get it started you can check out our first 20 HERE
Read the rest of today's post HERE... it includes a killer slow mo sequence of Kelly Slater at Shippies, epic footage

new video clip - Duskie

Back in late April I photographed Brett Caller and Sage Joske sliding on some late arvo point waves. I also shot a little bit of video and put a short clip together. CLICK HERE to have a peep

south

Drove south yesterday to catch up with some mates and shoot some more of this beautiful autumn weather and swell that we been getting. Another sparkling blue day with some head high waves were on offer all day.

Heath Joske slide

Sage Joske... Vectoring

Brett Caller...... flying fish

solitude clip

Solitude from Nathan Oldfield on Vimeo.

Another beautiful clip from one of my favourite film makers, Nathan Oldfield. It is of Sage Joske playing at a fun beach break.... just him, his quad fish and the late arvo glow.

3 surfers - 10 boards - 1 session

3 surfers 10 boards 1 pointbreak from Tom Woods on Vimeo.


This four minute clip is straight out of the ST Images stable. Yeah...... we have started to do some filming. Not taking it too serious, although the new HD SLR camera we have just acquired does pretty good job.
It was shot a few weekends ago at Crescent head with Sage Joske, Brett Caller and Jack Lynch. We went for a drive south with more than 10 boards in the trunk and they surfed everyone one em in clean peeling right-handers. The light quality was pretty bad and that's one of the main reasons I shot more video than stills. This film matches up with the still shots from THIS GALLERY.

good times

The ST Images bus headed south last weekend with the Valla surfboard team. Sage Joske, Brett Caller and Jack Lynch all stashed their weird and wonderful quivers into the back of two vans and off we went down the pacific highway.

Our destination was to be a long pebbly lined point break, as we rounded the bend into the car park a 5 wave set peeled flawlessly for 150 meters, the boys were amped!

The easterly swell from yesterday was still with us and the wind was non-existent.

Brett was straight out there on his finless Alaia, while Sage and Jack opted for their four fin fishes.

Much board swapping and changeovers went on throughout the morning sessions. Sage’s new Vector was a popular choice in the shoulder high waves and when the tide filled in the longer heavier logs were dragged out for some critical sliding along the summery walls.

vector sliding

sage shapes

Spent yesterday morning photographing and watching Sage Joske at work in his Valla factory. He was working on his newly created Vector boards, he had four of these puppies on the go yesterday, this one at the shaping stage while the other 3 were getting glassed with some sweet resin tints.

surf looks better today, wind has gone south and there were some fun two footers punching on to our beachies, get out there before it goes north-east again..... water temp gone cold again.

logging in the rain clip

This is a little video clip of my good mates Brett Caller, Sage Joske and Jack Lynch. They are the team riders for Valla surfboards which is an exciting place to be at the moment, so many cool boards coming out of that factory. I shot this while doing my regular still photos which can be seen at our surf gallery page under the title "Rainy day at Crescent 30th Dec"

Rainy day at Crescent from Tom Woods on Vimeo.

board dreams

Sage Joske ; flying fish

Sage is better know for the amazing lines he draws on the face of the wave, but this morning he got all flighty and took to the air a couple of times.

Got a chance to ride that board on the right today. Its called the Valla "VECTOR" and it is so much fun. This is one of Sage's newest creations and I reckon its a total winner. It was a brand new feeling of surfing and I will go to sleep tonight dreaming of the few rides I got this arvo.

Click here to check out more of Valla surfboard news.

Brett Caller at around 7.00 this morning

Im back

First blog back since christmas, I've had a few days off the camera but got back into yesterday when I took a little road trip south with me good mates from the Valla team. Sage Joske, Brett Caller and Jack Lynch. We drove to a nice pointbreak and spent the day surfing in the rain. Plently more pics to show, but here are a few to give you a taste. more pics coming soon on this blog and our website

Today has more small glassy peelers for those still on holidays

Pics ST SURF IMAGES

Brett checking for rock dings on his classic old mal

Sage's new creation

More of this little puppy will be revealed over the next week on this blog and valla saltwater constructs.

Stay tuned....... this thing is off the hook

windswept

my favourite bac beach last sunday. Sage Joske, Jack Lynch, birds, logs, fish and sand make up the sights i saw

shiny fish

Last week I photographed Sage Joske's new range of fish style surfboards. To find out more and see some of the pics CLICK HERE to go to the Valla surfboards blog.

Pic: http://www.stimages.com.au/

valla surfboards

Good friends of mine Sage Joske & Brett Caller have just started a new blog, titled Valla saltwater constructs. Anyone interested in board design and alternative surfing should add it to their favourites and keep checking it out. Sage shapes beautiful hand crafted fish, logs and Alaia surfboards. CLICK HERE to read all about it.

This pic: Sage putting one of his hand shapes through its paces. http://www.stimages.com.au/