Guys some of those pictures are unbelievable! Amazing work! I was just wondering if anyone else has the problem of getting decent pictures. When it is good not many people are willing to put their hand up for sitting on the beach and taking photos. Having said that though, even if my best days were photographed they wouldn't compare to the photos of you animals ripping into it!

^ A little bit, yes .

PaddlePig said...

I was just wondering if anyone else has the problem of getting decent pictures.

Definitely. On our recent trip a few shots were taken of me. I had a good session, a little air, a few slides, some decent snaps. All the photos that were taken were just trimming along, waiting to set up something. I said to the photog, "when I do a bottom turn, right after that is when I'm going to do a nice top turn so you know when to press the button". She said something about knowing that, but it never seemed to work. Or maybe I'm just a kook and all the turns are in my head and really I just trim along like a mal rider .

I did get a few decent shots a few years back when a guy used to come down to Perth's favourite beach break every morning and take shots of randoms for his website. Someone noticed me in some shots and pointed it out and I contacted the guy and he sent me some sequences. Not sure where they are now, plus I don't want to be IDed on the magical interweb.

Legion said...

^ A little bit, yes .

PaddlePig said...

I was just wondering if anyone else has the problem of getting decent pictures.

Definitely. On our recent trip a few shots were taken of me. I had a good session, a little air, a few slides, some decent snaps. All the photos that were taken were just trimming along, waiting to set up something. I said to the photog, "when I do a bottom turn, right after that is when I'm going to do a nice top turn so you know when to press the button". She said something about knowing that, but it never seemed to work. Or maybe I'm just a kook and all the turns are in my head and really I just trim along like a mal rider .

I did get a few decent shots a few years back when a guy used to come down to Perth's favourite beach break every morning and take shots of randoms for his website. Someone noticed me in some shots and pointed it out and I contacted the guy and he sent me some sequences. Not sure where they are now, plus I don't want to be IDed on the magical interweb.

I thought you did surf a mal

Woodo said...

doggie said...

Legion said...

^ A little bit, yes .

PaddlePig said...

I was just wondering if anyone else has the problem of getting decent pictures.

Definitely. On our recent trip a few shots were taken of me. I had a good session, a little air, a few slides, some decent snaps. All the photos that were taken were just trimming along, waiting to set up something. I said to the photog, "when I do a bottom turn, right after that is when I'm going to do a nice top turn so you know when to press the button". She said something about knowing that, but it never seemed to work. Or maybe I'm just a kook and all the turns are in my head and really I just trim along like a mal rider .

I did get a few decent shots a few years back when a guy used to come down to Perth's favourite beach break every morning and take shots of randoms for his website. Someone noticed me in some shots and pointed it out and I contacted the guy and he sent me some sequences. Not sure where they are now, plus I don't want to be IDed on the magical interweb.

I thought you did surf a mal

Only when it's too big for the SUP

Lol

WOW...
That looks like one committing drop...and not the place you want to come off hard either. Miss that place to much.

What an awesome photo....well worth the money!

swalkington said...
stoked to see everyone in the surfing forum has stopped arguing and are sharing shots of sick barrels instead!

I'll personally murder who ever answers Joe's question

Torch said...

Sorry to hijack this thread and get it back on track



cost $100 for this photo from the old guy that sits on the rock with his 6ft long lense, money well spent

That's BS,I'd pay a grand for a shot like that

To big for me!!!!

smicko said...

So how big is this thing of Torch's? I reckon that's easy 10-12 although no doubt someone will call it for 6-8.
The caves would've been getting damp in a swell like that, keyhole would've been a bit of fun too.
Got dragged out there once by my eldest brother in a swell like that and I gotta say I'd be in no hurry to do it again.
Tis a very different beast at 10ft in comparison to 6.
Kudos to you Torch

Careful smicko!!! There's nearly enough information to identify the break, suba will kill you, it's not worth it, stop!!!

quick rough approx
lets say torch is 2.5 feet tall in the crouch = 6mm
wave is roughly 37mm
easy 15ft face (4foot hawaiian?!!!!)
straight to the pool room with that one torch !!great shot mate !

Know what you mean Legion I was 14 when Pete shamed into paddling out that day. I didn't even shoulder hop just sat out there in awe watching him and the rest of the ferals get mindlessly shacked.
There was a goat boat out there too, absolute nutter, paddled straight out sat about 10m inside the boys, took off, got flogged. Then did the same thing about another half a dozen times before throwing in the towel.
Peter spent three or four years up there and reckoned he only saw it bigger once. I've been up there a heap of times since but never seen it bigger than about 6ft since.
Mind you I've been alright with that

Torch said...

It was my first trip up there in 2006, went for 10 days, the boys were calling 10 to 12 foot.

This photo was my last wave for the trip.

Knowing the boys had gotten out and standing on the cliff watching, and there was a camera in the rocks I paddled deep and took off on the first wave of the bomb set. I made it most of the way across but had to kick out on the end section where it got fat

I sh!t my hole!

Any way getting into the key hole I smashed my knee and ripped out my glassed in fins and filled my arse with sea urchin spines. Spent the next week on the couch with an ice pack on the knee

SICKEST trip ever!!!!!

I remember you saying that board was a channel bottom? Have you still got it?

That's a photo of a life time Torch, truly epic! I had a meeting with the urchins on my first trip too, f$#king hard to get out, had to go to the hospital and have the deep ones cut out.