Written By Trevor Moran on August 27th, 2010 with
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Nevermind 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…
Written By Trevor Moran on August 16th, 2010 with
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I’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…
Written By Trevor Moran on August 4th, 2010 with
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Two 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…
Written By Trevor Moran on July 20th, 2010 with
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In 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…
Written By Trevor Moran on July 1st, 2010 with
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This 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…
Written By Trevor Moran on June 24th, 2010 with
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This 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….
Written By Trevor Moran on June 14th, 2010 with
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To 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…
Written By Trevor Moran on May 27th, 2010 with
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As per KR’s Post, the waves finally were rideable in Ocean City the other day. The weather warmed up, raising the ocean temp, and bringing a solid ground swell. I saw the forecast about a week ago and tracked it up til D-Day. I managed to set myself up to have off work and penciled in a full day of surf for Wednesday. South East swell, 6 feet at 11 seconds, light SSW winds on Tuesday, with super light NW on Wednesday morning – an epic setup and guaranteed fun waves. Well, this is Ocean City we’re talking about,…
Written By Trevor Moran on May 17th, 2010 with
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Another week has gone by, ushered along by gusting West winds. Which means another week of spring flatness on the East Coast. Which means another post where I dip back into the archives for some eye candy featuring surfing. The good news is that I got enough unpublished backlog that we can easily make it through all the mid summer flat spells. I guess that would be bad news though because it would be flat, and also I have so many days shot without getting enough run.
Anyway.
These photos are from a trip I took with some of…
Written By Trevor Moran on May 3rd, 2010 with
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Well, lets hear it for Spring flat spells! With all the travleing I was doing I’ve been amping to get in a session in Jersey, but looks like Neptune has it out for us. I can’t be down there to check it at dawn every day, but every time I finally think there may be a swell after work or on a day off, I race to the beach to find that its knee high and onshore. Rad.
So that leaves me with the options of A. posting nothing; B. posting more about non-surfing; or C. rummage through the…
