…decided to make a silk screen from one of the photos I tooks in Rincon, PR after the SVA Action Surf Photo workshop. I’ve printed the image out on lucite and prepared a screen w/ photo emulsion. …haven’t had a chance to burnt it yet, but maybe tomorrow. Below is a small verion. The real size will be around 14″ tall and I plan to print it mainly to canvas or paper. …might do a couple t-shirts, we’ll see.
Anyway, lemme know if you’re interested in a print! might be able to hook u up
The SVA workshop ended on Saturday w/ a party at Pools Bar. Students submitted their top 25 photos and we had a slide show. …some great shots in there!
A friend who I surf w/ in NY, Gianni, came out on Saturday as well and we stayed until weds. Waves were a bit flat, but we found some fun small ones (at least for me on a longboard) up at hobos on Monday and Tues. Also, on Tues Sandy Beach picked up to around head high. We surfed it in the late afternoon w/ a bit of chop on it. Fun stuff!
…took some shots at Domes, but waves were small and I didn’t come up w/ anything worthy of posting. Ramse took a few of us to get a demonstration from local shaper (known to everyone as) Monchito.
Monchito is a bit of a character. He doesn’t speak a lick of english and shapes and glasses boards w/ bare feet. His boards are great though! He shapes for Ramse. Also a friend of mine bought a fish from him and said it was awesome.
I had dropped off my board 2 days before after breaking off and inch or 2 of the nose at Cemetaries. …3rd time I’ve done that in PR! repair was done very well. …perfectly smooth. I had him touch up the other repairs I’d done as well. 60 bucks total, well worth it!
…took a break from surf photography and drove an hour or so up into the rain forest. From there, hiked to a beautiful waterfall. It reminded me a lot of the tour I did in Chang Mai, Thailand. There was actually 3 waterfalls that you could hike up to, the largest being at the bottom. Ramse was the only one who checked out the other 2.
I took some shots from the water w/ my G11 which has some issues w/ water beading up on the housing port. …land shots are w/ a 1Ds Mark II.
…into some bigger waves and stronger current! This was a different experience all together. Where before you could pretty much stand up and shoot, here it was a tough paddle out and took some effort to stay in the sweet spot. Later I found that the paddle in wasn’t too easy either! …got swept around the point and had to come in at the next break over, Indicators, w/ the help of one the instructors. A bit sketchy! Thanks J.P.!
