An Aussie pictorial in Parafina Magazine
I just wanted to point you towards a pretty cool on line magazine from Brazil called Revista Parafina . I’ve been working with these guys for a while and I reckon they have one of the coolest on line magazines that I have seen anywhere, even despite that I can’t read it [...]
Clean and green on King Island.
A simple wave of the day, here from King Island in Australia. This particular beach is as close to surf heaven that I have seen.
What’s doing, up north?
The south swell pushed up a bit yesterday, so Wire and I lobbed into the falcon, (what we like to call “The Mobile Couch”) and headed up north, to take a look for ourselves…
The north coast welcoming committee
King island is situated in Bass Strait, commonly viewed as amongst some of the roughest seas in the world. It’s open to all manner of weather and swell, sometimes expected, other times, completely unexpected. These guys however are 2 individuals that I’ve totally come to expect to meet when [...]
On my mind
Well folks, usually I’m on my way to Australia right about this time of the year and usually, I end up at this very special little island in Bass Strait. I’ve been going there for many years, Seems that if I make it there this year, it’ll be a little later [...]
A whole different state of mind to Hawaii
With all the radical weather that’s been hitting the U.S. and Europe this year, I thought I’d spare a thought for our colder surfing bretheren. As many of you know, I originated from a pretty cool place myself. The Australian island state of Tasmania, but unlike the Hawaii’an islands, this place [...]
Locals day on Hobart’s amazing pointbreaks, in Tasmania
Being a Tasmanian myself, I like to head back there around Autumn time each year as it is one of my absolute favourite places to shoot photos. On my 2006 trip with Mark Healey, Jamie Sterling and the Long bro’s, we scored the extremely elusive Hobart point-breaks on what many were calling the [...]
Man V’s Nature, at it’s purest, with Damian Wills
As some of my readers will know, I spent quite a considerable amount of time in Tasmania recently and while I was there, I was lucky enough to take in a big wave session at Shipstern Bluff. They are a tight knit crew, the Tassie boys. The whole boat erupts [...]
New Travel pictorial on Surfline: Hells Gate
Hi everyone, well, one of the trips that I worked on in Tasmania, Australia recently just went live on Surfline. I worked on this gig with a bunch of very talented surfers and cameramen. The surfers consisted on legendary journeyman; Timmy Turner, Tassy charger; James Holmer Cross and Noosa surfer Dean [...]
Timmy Turner hardened surf traveler
I had the good fortune to travel with notable surf explorer Tim Turner recently, down in Tasmania. I’ve got to say that this guy is the real deal. He’s been right out there on the edge of surf travel’s limits. How’s this, we are traveling up the east coast [...]
Silver Linings in Currie
Hi all, it’s been a slow start to my shoot here on King Island, due to some unseasonally bad winds, but it is meant to swing round today. I held an art show last night at the Nautilus cafe in Currie and invited the town to come and look at some of my pictures. [...]
Shipsterns shines again
It’s now the 17th and I’ve already moved on to the final stage of my trip, up here on King Island. But before I left, I managed to squeeze in a couple of shoots at the always amazing Shipstern Bluff. There were a few name surfers from out of town like [...]
Flashback to 2001 and epic Shipsterns
Hi folks, it’s pretty late into this trip now. I only have a couple of days left before I move onto the next leg of my journey. It’s also that time of the year here when Shipstern Bluff starts to show what it can do, so I thought I’d share with you [...]
Shark attack victim is a champ
Some of you may have heard about the 13 year old Tasmanian girl who was attacked by a 5-6 meter great white shark on the east coast of Tasmania back in January this year. I happened to meet her quite by chance just a couple of days ago and she showed me the [...]
More Tassy goodness
Hi folks
just sharing some more images from the past week with you, here in Tasmania. The water here is soooooo clean. Everywhere we went, there was never any murky water. Just pristine white beaches with clear torquise [...]
Cool times in Tassy
Hi everyone. I’ve been traveling very intensely during the past week and have not been able to get anywhere near a computer, to give you any updates. Now of course, I have. In this last week, our group traveled more than 1,000 kms by road, a few hundred by boat, long [...]
Jordy Smith wins the Inaugural O’Neill Cold Water Classic in Tasmania
Hi folks, it’s been a busy few last days at the O’Neill Cold Water Classic at Marrawah, right here in beautiful Tasmania, Australia. I’ve been kept so busy shooting with all the great surf that I’ve not been able to convert files over for you to view from the past few days. [...]
O’Neill Cold Water Classic – Bluff Reef
Following on from my report, yesterday, here are some more images from the epic day of waves, had at the Oneill Cold Water Classic, a few days ago. Enjoy!
Sean
The big drive north
Alrighty then. Time has come to “pull up stakes” (Aussie lingo for packing up camp) and make the big drive up to the far north west of the state, to a small farming community known as Marrawah. For the next 8 or 9 days, this place will have a couple of hundred foreign [...]
Flynn and Ezra’s excellent adventure
I’ve been free-ranging round the South east of Tasmania with Flynn Novak and Ezra Sitt from Hawaii, these past couple of days. We drove a long way yesterday and they got some pretty cool waves actually. I didn’t get time though to do a proper edit, so here’s a few images from the [...]
A random surf session on South Arm
My Hawaiian buddies Flynn Novak and Ezra Sitt arrived here in Hobart last night, on their way to the Oneill cold water classic surf event, scheduled for the 23rd to the 29th of March, right here in Tasmania. I took ‘em for a surf today down at the local Hobart beachies, at South [...]
The trusty steed of 2006
Pro surfers are a resourceful bunch of guys. Often traveling on the sniff of an oil rag. These guys have to make what sometimes looks impossible possible. I give you this instance. It was March 2006. There was myself, Mark Healey, Jamie Sterling, the Long Bros and Andrew Kopjack along [...]
Mutton Birds make for nervous surf
Down here in Tasmania, they have these Mutton Birds that nest all round the beaches and coastline. On certain days of the year, they take to the air en-masse. Just thousands of these birds airborne. When you consider that these birds have really sharp beaks, every single one of them is [...]
SE Tasmania and Eagle Hawk Neck
Hi folks, we find ourselves down on the Tasman Peninsular, in Tasmania’s south east. A favourite haunt of Hobart surfers when there are good sand banks, combined with a decently easterly direction swell, this place can be fun as! Known by many as eagle Hawk Neck, this was the [...]
