When someone mentions Hawaii, surfing is usually the first thing that comes to mind. The two go hand in hand and rightly so being that there are hundreds of world class breaks throughout the island chain and the North Shore of Oahu hosts the most prestigious surf contests in the world. Although this post is not about the winter on the North Shore, which everyone in the surfing world e, it never hurts to add a little background. I found a few photographs from a month long trip I made back in May of 2009 that yielded some of the most fun surf I have ever experienced over some relatively uncrowded reef breaks. The south shore of Hawaii is wide open to all southerly swell angles and has nothing Read the rest of this page »
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Thanksgiving Eve Swell Gallery
While its safe to say that mostly everybody in New York thinks of a massive feast with family and friends during the last week of November, there tends to be some decent surf pretty much every year around Thanksgiving. While most people were getting ready to head out to their favorite bar and tap into the kegs of their favorite brew, a select few were getting suited up and pulling in deep on some Guinness brown barrels. The photographs featured in this gallery show how it is in fact possible to score great waves all to yourself here in New York. Once the water starts dipping into the low 50′s and high 40′s there is a dramatic declination in the surfing population. This drop in the lineup headcount allows one to find their own isolated sandbar fairly easy being that Long Island stretches 118 miles eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. That’s a whole lot of south facing beach breaks with a ton of Read the rest of this page »
November No.’s
November represents the tail end of Hurricane season for us surfers on the East Coast of the U.S. What one might also experience during this month is the feast of a holiday we Americans call thanksgiving as well as a semi-consistent swell pattern that is a mix between tropical low pressure systems and nor’easter winter storms. As for myself I didn’t manage to find much surf this month as it has been an extraordinarily busy one, from a trip to the west coast to long term school projects I have been super busy and shooting surf photography became a luxury I was hard pressed to afford in the past couple of weeks. On a positive note, I do have a small gallery of some shots that range from a medium sized November swell in New York to the Los Angeles skyline and I added a bonus Read the rest of this page »
Quiksilver Pro New York
The contest was a complete success, and if you don’t know off the top of your head which contest then you should check out the last post made on the Red Dawn Blog Here. The swell that provided for the dream tour came from Hurricane Katia, and the surfers that did best were Owen Wright, Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow, Julian Wilson, Alejo Muniz and Josh Kerr (as far as setting the bar early on in the competition with insane Aerial Maneuvers) as well as many other but those are the few that I am going to be sharing my photos of, with you. In saying you, I am talking about my beloved readers,viewers and followers and I’m probably not far off to say you surf waves, shoot photographs or love the ocean in one way or another. Now that I’ve gotten that settled we can move forth to the goods, because I wouldn’t want to give you anything less. Long story short, the champion of the richest prize purse Read the rest of this page »
Stormy Days
Throughout the month of October this year we have seen fairly mild temperatures and a relatively high number of sunny days. That was until today when the freezing rain, sleet and snow fell all day and continued through the night. The fall season up until this point was pretty warm and not too wet but the waves haven’t been very consistent, especially not for October which is usually one of the best months for surf here in New York. A mere 38 degree air temperature, pretty much flat surf by most peoples standards and absolutely dumping buckets of frozen rain pelting the earth’s surface. Read the rest of this page »
Hurricane Rain
Traveling back in time about 2 months and a week ago, Hurricane Irene at the time was a strong category 3 hurricane bearing down on Long Island New York. Mayor Bloomberg had declared a state of emergency and closed all public transportation in and out of the worlds greatest city as well as issued a mandatory evacuation for anyone who resided within about 3 miles from the waterfront . The news channels were going crazy blowing things out of proportion more and more by the hour. Residents living on the water either evacuated or sat and waited the storm out which turned out to be about half as intense as they originally expected. The beaches were inaccessible for the most part throughout Long Island so the Red Dawn Crew made a quick trip in the middle of the hurricane Read the rest of this page »