Here’s a few images from my recent trip to Ventura, California. Knowing I had to get surgery on my foot again this past Tuesday at Duke and be on crutches for about a month (thanks again girl who ran over my foot while I was jogging last march because she was lighting a cig and not paying attention), I went there to surf my brains out. Bought a ticket Monday night about 9PM and flew out at 10AM the next morning. Thanks wonderful wife for letting me leave last second! The waves and weather were perfect the entire time. Was lucky enough to ride out to the Channel Islands and surf a perfect wave with just a few friends one of the days. The rest of the trip I surfed long right points around the Ventura and Santa Barbara area. Caught the best waves of my life. I really didn’t shoot much at all this trip and it felt great. I was surfing when the waves were the best, something I rarely do. Logged about 45 hours of surf in the week and half I was there. All with a broken bone in my foot. Now thats fixed after taking a bone graph from my hip and putting another stronger plate in there. Can’t wait for this to be over. Anyways, hope you enjoy the photos. Will post some more later.

**Sorry had to remove the photos because Surfer Magazine wants to hold onto some to potentially publish in the magazine.**

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Took a last second trip to California and ended up staying for almost 2 weeks. Amazing weather and waves the whole time. Had a great trip. Will post photos soon. Catching up. Here’s a couple I grabbed this evening freezing on the beach at the lighthouse. Kinda came together right before dark. Right about the time I got frostbite.

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got a text at 9pm thurs from drew asking if i wanted to go bluefinning at 430 friday morning. gotta take advantage of the windows of the relatively calm seas in the winter when the bluefin tuna are around. was time for redemption after getting skunked on monday. the wind didn’t let up as forecasted, so it was pretty sloppy most of the day, 4-5 ft at 5 seconds, but it didn’t matter cause bluefin were thick. saw 80-90 inchers swimming in the waves and 50 ft thick marks most of the day . unbelievable. hooked up on an 82 incher after about 10 minutes of trolling and i faught that one for 45 minutes. my biggest fish yet…very stoked. 30 minutes later we hooked up again but lost that one close to the boat. 10 minutes later the 130 is screaming again. craig battled the one below for about 2.5 hours. yea thats two and a half hours. matt did a great job keeping the boat positioned over the fish the whole fight so we didn’t lose it. heres a few photos i took of craigs fight and he and drew securing the fish. photos don’t do the size of the beast any justice. both of em were almost 7 ft long and around 400 lbs making them quite challenging to get into a rocking boat. labor of love.  they will sell for about 5 grand to the japanese. not a bad way to make a few thousand bucks. Season closes tmrw.

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Little gallery on sneaker swell last friday on Surfer Magazine site. Click below.

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Here is the view from the 2nd floor of the Jennettes Pier house, one of my new favorite places to shoot weddings. This was one of the most beautiful evenings for a wedding and the sky couldn’t have been more photogenic. Love how the golden light is hitting the pier against blue sky and dark clouds and there’s hardly a ripple on the ocean. Sunsets really are better in the fall. Check out more of my photos from Megan and Cory’s wedding in the Outer Banks Wedding Guide.

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Went bluefin tuna fishing today. They slayed em yesterday. Everyone goose egg’d today. What a difference a day makes. Never know unless you go. Still a beautiful day on the water and it ended like this.

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So incredibly honored to have the cover of the new Outer Banks Bride Magazine. Congrats Jen & Brett!

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Photographed Meghan & Williams engagement session on Tuesday. The weather was about as good as it gets for this time of year. We were a little nervous as it was pouring rain and cloudy all day on Monday, but it cleared up and was beautiful Tuesday. They were a lotta fun to work with and made my job easy. Looking forward to photographing their wedding in October.

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