A new surf series

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A new surf series

Postby ozimax on Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:02 pm

Took a few snaps at a local junior surf competition last Sunday, surf a bit milky but a nice day.

Just back this afternoon from an overnight trip to Snapper Rocks. After last week's excellent swell I was banking on taking many photos at the Quicksilver Pro. Alas there was a gale blowing, a 6 metre swell, driving rain and surf resembling a Hoover twin tub. Oh well, there's always next year...

Here's one of about three from yesterday at Snapper's. Taylor Knox (USA) in a winning heat ride through the rain and wind.
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Here's a few from last weekend at sunny (now flooded) Coffs Harbour:

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Postby BBJ on Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:16 am

Mate, fantastic shots as per usual and bloody good to see you have been getting back into these surf shots. I like them all and well what can i say i always look forward to your surf shots and these are great, keep it up mate.
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Postby Jeff on Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:32 am

Great shots, good to share them.

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Postby ozimax on Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:19 am

Have tidied the photos up a bit, was a bit tired last night when submitting same and I was not sure what I was doing...at least I was not sure that I was sure....?
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Postby elffinarts on Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:45 am

nice work, which lens were you using?

If you saw a shooter down there sporting a Canon 1DS MkII and a 600mmF4 with a 2X teleconverter that was the Courier-Mail covering it for QWeekend.
If only I had the keys to their lens cabinet. lol
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Postby ozimax on Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:28 am

elffinarts wrote:nice work, which lens were you using?

If you saw a shooter down there sporting a Canon 1DS MkII and a 600mmF4 with a 2X teleconverter that was the Courier-Mail covering it for QWeekend.
If only I had the keys to their lens cabinet. lol


My trusty old Tamron 300mm. I keep it a cheap lens for several reasons.
1. If I fall in the surf it's no great loss. (Actually last week I waded out too far and got caught with a back wash and nearly went under)
2. It was cheap, actually it was a freebie
3. It takes very good photographs is you can get close enough

Yep, I too would like to borrow some of the good equipment. Better still, I would like to own a nice Nikon 600mm lens. :D

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Postby elffinarts on Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:23 am

ahh there's a huge difference, he'd never have been wading out into the water with that lens.

we once had a shooter lose about $50,000 of equipment up at Barron Gorge north of cairns while covering an extreme sports gig. His whole bag fell out of the canoe and was not recoverable.
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