Gauchos del Mar

I'm digging these guys, the trips they are taking seem interesting and they wrote a good article for Surfer's Journal. Just bought their DVDs.

Campus Pt. April 2015

Quick little goodbye to SB surf (Sara is doing a 2 year postdoc at UCSC now). A triathalon kind of interfered with the surfing plan...

 "who are these funny looking people I spy on the beach?"

Santa Cruz Island, March 2015

Scorpion anchorage

We went out to SCI in March, to take down the Sauces weather station with Doug and look at the pine mortality due to the crazy drought we are in. It's so nice out there. We stayed an extra day to go to this special secret beach on the south shore. The road was crazy. Snorkled and beach combed. We got a flat on the way out + no air in the spare, walked some and then were rescued by one of the blue jay crew guys in Rust, the FJ-40.  Here's a vid of bird song around the field station:

Devereaux

Here is a little photoseries from Devereaux, mostly of Sara, with the Nikon 300mm f4. Some earlier shots are here. This is basically her learning to love the ocean.

platform Holly

basically the first photo I have of her standing up

with surf buddy Laura H

watch out for the rock!

 cold morning

 warmer afternoon

Big Sur Jan 2015

We went up to Santa Cruz for the weekend to try and find a place for Sara - she's starting a post-doc up there soon. We drove through Big Sur on the way back. I had my new 300 f4 af lens and had fun shooting the elephant seals in San Simeon. Full album here {there's a sequence of a seal flipping sand that is kinda cool}.

 willow

lots of sleeping going on

some fighting

some waving

some exhaling -> blowing sand

hearst ranch zebras

two short clips of Baja

BBC nature. some nice time lapses and whales

baja sur surfing 1' waves, but nicely edited

Cool little video about surfing in Sweden

Carrots and Pinetrees from jakobwallin on Vimeo.

new 300mm f4

hummingbird, Devereaux

Chile, Antofagasta to San Pedro de Atacama

We flew LAX -> Lima -> Santiago -> Antofagasta and rented a truck there to drive up into the mountains

 surfspot

 skate park along the ocean road

 we'd see more in Valpo, but Anto graffiti was nice, too

 old miner's quarters, we assumed

probably questionable chemicals involved

we stayed at a hotel the first night to wash off airplane residuals