School has kept me busy. Real busy. Living on Oahu has put me into sort of a weird state this last 9 months. I went from living a lifestyle where I was on the beach, and in the water, almost every day, to living in the city, windsurfing or surfing maybe once a week at best.
Don't get me wrong, academics are important, but it's still been a challenge to adjust to. Midterm week was stressful, but the thought of spending my spring break with friends and my crazy dog Rocko, gave me some much needed light at the end of the tunnel.

Midterms finshed on Friday morning, went straight to the beach for a quick surf, shot another wedding with Julia Sieber on the North Shore of Oahu on Saturday (more on that to come), then hopped a plane EARLY Sunday morning to Maui.

Monday I met up with the Hot Sails Maui crew and did a flatwater/freestyle photoshoot with them and some of their new equipment. Owner Jeff Henderson had the awesome idea to have me shoot from a 10' inflatable innertube/trampoline, anchored just offshore. Naish Sails was doing their flatwater shoot just down the beach, and watching world famous photographer Darrell Wong swim around all morning made me feel guilty about how little effort I really had to put into it.

After lunch, we decided to head out a little further, so team rider Omri dragged me out half way to the reef for better wind, where we shot for another hour. Shooting from the trampoline in the morning was great, but being down in the water swimming next to the sailors gives quite a different perspective. Although it's tougher to keep your lens port free from stray water drops, the angle makes small chop hops appear as if they were 15 feet off the water. Fun fun fun.

I had the pleasure to shoot with Kim Long and Robin Lamarca recently. By recently I mean almost three weeks ago now. Just goes to show how far behind I am with editing and posting, but I've had a busy week on Maui of windsurfing, and shooting windsurfing, almost everyday.

Anyways, real simple portraits here, one light up high and off to the side, one light on the background sometimes.

And my favorite shot? The side view of Kim, shot by Robin. Always inspiring to hand somebody else the camera. Get's your head out of the box.

Wish I had more room to shoot full length....oh well. Thanks girls!

Crazy busy here.... Did a shoot with a couple beautiful girls on Friday night, followed by an island wide surf expedition on Saturday, shooting everything from lower east side to Waimea. Wrapped it up with a good friends 21st birthday day that night, and that left Sunday for....sleeping, editing, homework, and coffee. Lots of coffee.

Still digging through all the shots, but I have midterms and labs and tests and... ya. Lots this upcoming week. Here's a one of my fav's so far, more to come later this week!

My good friend Luke came out to visit for a couple days recently. Saturday we decided to drive up around the Windward coast, something I hadn't done yet, and wow, what a beautiful stretch of coast. It gave me a chance to shoot some landscape shots which I haven't done in quite a while.

After cruising up and around we stopped for a rainy, uncrowded surf session at a spot called Freddies. (The picture is just down the beach a bit at Backyards) Super fun and uncrowded. When is this winter weather going to pass? I haven't seen the sun here in forever!

Shot some pictures at local watering hole, Coconut Willy's, as a favor for a friend of mine at Kau Kau magazine. The band playing that night was AWESOME, but I can't remember their name for the life of me, unfortunately. They did some great covers of classic rock songs which can be a hard thing to come across in Hawaii. Don't get me wrong, reggae is great, but it's nice to mix it up every once in a while.

Great drinks and fun atmosphere. Anytime you come here plan on your night going on later than expected. It usually isn't busy until around 12:30 or 1am when the employees of other restaurants and bar start getting off work.

Drink up!