who here has been surfing this week?

What are you shooting with? Looks like your shutter speed is too slow. Set your shutter speed no slower than 1/800th and preferably faster than that. Most of what you see from me is shot at 1/1200th and 1/1600th. Hope this helps.

 

A Tim Torcia pic of Mr Hammer

 

Yep. Friday was about as good as NJ gets. Down in SJ our water didn't have that kind of color though and it was almost all Lefts. This shot was late in the day after it had crapped out.......if you want to call it that. I still haven't gotten around to culling and editing the 475 shots I took in about an hour and a half that afternoon.

 

I have a Cannon Powershot and am a total hack photographer, those are still frames from video I shot as are most pics I post. I do take a lot of pics too but am mostly a videographer if I were to call myself anything at all. Yourself, Mitchell, Curl, even clownface are the true photogs on here, but hopefully what I post gives a feel for the stoke up here.

 

I'm the opposite. I'm lost shooting and editing video. My camera and lenses would do a great job but between dragging a tripod to the beach and trying to be smooth and on point with the action I just hate it. Then you have to edit the clips. I have all the tools including Adobe Premier but just get no enjoyment out of video.

 

Most of the photos are of my adult sons are from Torcia , Silato , Nibbs , Korn who shoot when it goes off . A few are of myself as the one above that Jack Flaherty shot . They send me so many classic photos that I refrain to show to keep crowds down . Each one of the photogs can produce a crowd . As with that pic above , Jack was set up and I was trying to convince a few iof the local talent to surf with me outside . Torcia showed up , and my conversion fell on deaf ears . Photo whores ! This pic was the inside fyi . inside

 

Pretty fun chest high waves last night before dark. Lite crowd too.

 

Wednesday afternoon....the jetty in OCMD was just perfect.

 

Buddy got a cell phone pic of me....going for a left...when anyone with sense would have gone right. I'm a pretty militant goofy footer.

 

No surf for me today. Stayed behind the lens and rooted my youngest on to winning the NSSA NorthEast High School Championship. Beyond stoked.

This was the wave of the day as it drained out and he disappeared for the next 15 yards coming out clean.

 

CJ , congrats to your son !

 

Monday - woke up to a gentle rain, which was ending as dawn broke and I headed out to chest - shoulder+ mostly closeouts. Hit a spot that I used to frequent much more, but had fallen off my radar the past 2 years or so. The East swell at dead low tide combined with the shifted sandbars made took me off my game a little. After a late drop on an OH closeout which garnered admiring comments as to the dramatic nature of my wipeout, I opted to paddle over to the other side of the sandbar where the waves were slightly more predictable. Got stuffed by 2 more closeouts and then got in nice and early and carved my way to the lip and speed-crouched down the line until I had to straighten out to avoid some adult learner floundering in the wash. Called it a day after that, found a nice piece of blue sea glass, showered and dressed for work and enjoyed a delicious ham and swiss cheese sandwich at my desk while saltwater steadily flowed thru my sinuses out my nose for the rest of the day.

 

fun weekend on hand after a pretty dismal month and more coming later this week. hope everyone got rewarded for their patience

 

Super fun today. Chest to shoulder with an occasional bigger one. Little crowded but waves to go around.

 

Double over head sets on the tide draining to having my oldest taking the vows , Epic day !

 

Congrats Curl !!!!

 

It was really good yesterday, but I am out of the water for a while. My right shoulder was not good a couple of weeks ago but I paddled out for a long session with a lot of current, a lot of paddling. I could barely lift my arm for a week after, it is just getting better now.