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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010Igor: Walk this Way
Monday, September 13th, 2010No, THIS way…
The most famous Igor
Is it just me, or is it impossible not to make fun of a storm named Igor? Probably won’t be as funny when a category 5 storm nails the East Coast, but until then we have a full week to get in the Igor jokes.
Let the hyping begin
Storm Tracker? Ghostbusters? Igor lures all the freaks out of hiding and onto the parkway.
Bonus Audio: http://www.mp3rocket.com/mp3/39_00/CKY-Hans-its-Igor.htm
His name was Earl
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010Danielle was beautiful. We saw her the moment she walked into the room. She paced around for a bit, then finally set her line, eyeing us up from across the bar. There hadn’t been too much action recently, so naturally we walked over, bought her a drink. We invested a lot of time getting to know Danielle, dumping time and money into her, really interested in where she was going next. We had heard from trusted sources that she was gonna be hanging out for a bit, and was really into having a good time with us. She said she would meet us at the next bar, and we were frothing for some action. Danielle never showed up.
Fresh into our depression from Danielle we became a bit jaded. The hunt for Danielle was fun and all, but when she didn’t put out, it kinda sucked. At that point we were desperate, waiting for anything fun to play with. Thats when Earl walked in the room. He was big and burly, much stronger than Danielle. Earl looked promising, but we didn’t really know which way he would go, and after the energy we put into hunting Danielle, we weren’t ready to get let down again. We heard some guys next to us say they were going to another bar up North in hopes that Earl would come their way. A few other guys went over and sat down right next to Earl, getting as close as possible thinking that would be the best way to experience him. We stayed put and waited. We let Earl come to us.
We played with Earl all day and night. His force lived up to expectations, even if he was a little bit rough around the edges at first. The second and third sessions were better though, he calmed down a bit and, though less intense, we had more fun. Our stamina was low from lack of recent activity and Earl wore us out. We slept like a rock that night.
Come morning Earl was gone, leaving us unexpectedly as we slept. We heard he found our other prospect, Fiona, and the two of them sprinted North together. He left with little more than trace signs that he had been here. The energy he brought was gone, replaced by a crisp haunting wind – a reminder that summer is now over, and we are, yet again, alone wanting more.
Jamie
KR
Jamie
Ocean City
Jamie
Silver Surfer
Gesler
KR
Jamie
Jamie
KR
Dean
KR
Be Rad
NOTE: This isn’t a tale of coming out of the closet, just didn’t want to subject readers to yet another hurricane story featuring “golden brown Jersey water” or “waves you drew on your notebook in school” or “barrels you could park a truck in”. Get over it ya squares.
My first contest win in 8 years
Friday, August 27th, 2010Nevermind that its been the better part of a decade since I won a contest. Nevermind the contest I won wasn’t against any top east coast surfers. Nevermind the contest I won didn’t really involve other surfers period. I won dammit.
What I did win was a photo contest. Actually a reasonably big one, and I really thought I had no shot. Its the International Photography Awards which usually has a pretty big pool of entries. Although I haven’t shot much of it recently, I felt like my underwater work is usually something people stop and look at more than my other work. The problem is that the only category for underwater was Nature Underwater. I’ve got tons of surfing, models, and even product photos involving underwater, but not too much “nature”. I decided to enter some of my stuff from my last trip to Tahiti – spent a lot of time shooting underwater angles when the waves were smaller. Action surfing shots doesn’t really equal nature in my mind, but turns out its close enough in these judges minds.
The only problem is that I entered the Non-Pro category so I didn’t win any money (in hindsight I’m not sure why I did non-pro – think the entry fee was lower). Apparently I’ll still be published in the book of all the winners photos and I get some sort of bragging rights. Plus I’ve never entered a photo contest, and winning my first one gives me a little confidence for the future. Who knows, maybe this will be the springboard that gets me to be the next Maplethorpe (google it). Probably not.
So while my exile from competitive surfing still stands, maybe I’ll start remembering what its like to win again soon.
You’ll never guess where I’m blogging from!!!
Monday, August 16th, 2010I’ll give you a big hint: its an airplane. *–)–
Just like the first time you got a call from someone in a car, of if you were one of the 37 people to ever use the phones they installed in airplane seatbacks, there is kinda a bit of a thrill for my first wifi session at 35,000 feet.
I’m en route to LA for a few days for a commercial shooting job – apparently I’m going to have some acting role in the commercial…. we’ll see if that pans out. Was not stoked to get up at 5 am, check the waves and realize instead of surfing chest high super fun wedges I’d be getting shacked in a phallic tin can that has a musk of morning breath and BO. I love flying.
But I was pumped to find that instead of watching some Jude Law romantic comedy, I’m actually able to get a little bit of work done. In fact I’ve been pretty productive trying to track down the dick who has my iPhone right now. Went through all the surf blogs, did a lot of reading, and finally saw the video on Parko’s blog where he cut his foot (that wave was sick).
Also rummaged through the new Surfers Candy site redesign hunting for bugs. Is it just me or do you guys like the old site better too?
Sunrise over chest high Ocean City
Patchwork America
Internet? Exit Row? Flying is becoming nearly tolerable
Nightrider Tow-Ats on ESM.com
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Two weeks ago there was a “nightrider tow-at” event held at the Ortley Beach Surf Club. I went up there to celebrate Jamie’s birthday as well as shoot some photos of the boys. I’d shot these events in the past, and ususally the photos end up sucking. Although the lights on the beach look really bright, for stopping action surfing, they do nothing. So this year I actually planned ahead, and brought a high powered flash, complete with lead battery backpack, and handed it off to my Slave Charlie. This year, finally the technique worked and I was able to get some decent shots. I forwarded them over to ESM for a peep and they decided to include them in their coverage of the Quicksilver tour that was up here recently. Head over to the feature here.
Front Page of ESM Site
Ballaram was the unanimous winner
Jamie was focusing on his backside tail whips
Quizzy went for the big spins
Rob was bustin fins for his female fans
Big thanks to Charlie aka Mr Slave
Dark Fall Premiere Photos
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010In case you’ve been living under a rock in a cave on Mars with your ears plugged, you probably know that Dark Fall had its world premiere showing the other night in Atlantic City. The House of Blues sold out – which is rumored nearly 2,000 people came out. Pretty sure I saw everyone in the entire Jersey surf community there, which I still find truly amazing. Speaking of amazing, ASG killed it. I heard Jumpship rocked too, but I missed it since I was putting away my gear.
If you saw me and my camera wondering around, check out this link to the gallery below. Feel free to pull down the photo to your computer and do whatever with it.
www.trevormoran.com/Gallery/DarkFallPremiere/
Appetizer featuring the MC of the Night
Margate Tow Ats
Thursday, July 1st, 2010This past Saturday, Heritage teamed up with some of the Surfers Candy boys and held a Tow At demo at Beachstock in Margate. Although the waves were small and winds onshore, the demo went off pretty well. Kevin Richards was hyping the crowd on the mic hooked up to the radio truck, Gesler and Jamie shared duties driving the ski and Zack, Ian Bloch and Ben Graef shredded the slop. KR crowned Ian winner of the non-contest being the only one to actually land any sort of boost. All in all not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Welcome to Margate
Ians Heat Winner
Jamie Slashing a non existant wave
MC KR
Zack turning some heads
Traffic Jam
The seniors weren't impressed
The Andrew Gesler Experience
Thursday, June 24th, 2010This week, things have finally slowed down in the commercial photo world for me. Aside from doing a ton of laundry, paying a lot of over due bills, and actually visiting a grocery store, I decided it’s time to buckle down and start creating new work for myself. I tried my damnedest to get some shots during International Surfing Day since its the one day a year you can get a shot run without there being any waves. But when I got down to the beach to shoot, I got bummed out because the waves were oh so awful. Decided to frolic around in the warm June water and left the camera in the car. The fact that it was onshore and fathers day didn’t help the situation when I tried to set up a night shoot.
The good that came out of it though was that I got to pitch to Andrew Gesler an idea I had for him being the subject of a quiver portrait. Andrew is a very animated guy, and I knew that he would be down for just about anything. He has the mentality of giving anything a shot, so long as he trusts you. Luckily, I feel like he does trust me after this experience. I wanted to shoot at around dusk at 8pm, but instead we dodged lighting storms for about two hours, waiting for things to clear up and it finally did at around 10pm. Although it was dark and windy, we still gave it a shot and things came out much like I had hoped for in the original concept.
Want to thank Andrew, Jeannine, and Steve for their willingness.
Here’s to hoping this will inspire someone to hire me!
How could dangling lights over water be dangerous?
Pretty Colors
Hes a trip. I love it.
The Andrew Gesler Experience
One of the "final images"
In other news
Monday, June 14th, 2010To the average passerby, I can seem like quite a pessimist at times, not going to get into the details, but deep down I think I’m really an optimistic person. I’m the kind of person that always searches for the bright side of a situation, no matter how grim the details are. I proved this once again when I began thinking about the oil pumping into the gulf right now.
No doubt its a terrible situation. Not only is it bad for the environment, killing all kinds of wildlife and covering the beaches in a gross slick, but like every ‘catastrophe’ it has become a political arguing point. “Drill Baby Drill” vs “Club Soda not Seals” is in a full climax battle, but luckily all this attention is creating some good.
I was driving up to a photoshoot in the great concrete jungle they called New York on Friday morning. Typically this drive totally sucks, and gets worse as I approach the tunnels and bridges up there. Its tradition to check out 1010 WINS news radio for the traffic on the 1′s (like 1060 for those readers who don’t leave the south jerz bubble). Right after I got the news that I was about to sit in traffic for the next 50 minutes, some good news piped in over the airwaves. “In other news… The surfrider foundation will be hosting a beach cleanup tomorrow from 4 til 6 pm at Rockaway beach…” They went on to detail the event, and go into a light history of who the surfrider foundation is and how New Yoka’s could pitch in and help clean up the beach. Inevitably they tied the whole piece up with referencing the oil spill, but the good was already done. They talked about the surfrider foundation and cleaning up beaches for a full 60 seconds. That doesn’t seem like a long time, but when you are talking about the biggest radio station in the New York area which reaches out to over 10 million people a day, its a pretty big deal to get 60 seconds of air time. If you still don’t think 60 seconds is a long time, check out this video of Matt Kechele on Surfline, it makes 20 seconds seem long as hell. They cleaned up Rockaway beach, which considering how close its located to the epicenter of filth, its a very necessary task. And for the record, I’m not ragging on New York beaches – caught some of the most fun waves on the East Coast there two falls ago.
So in the end what do we learn? Catastrophes get exploited, BP sucks, 1010 WINS gets a +1, and listening to the radio is pointless because there is always traffic in New York.
Unidentified New Yorker benefitting from NYC Beach Cleanups
Balaram Stack flying above the trash at Rockaway
