Splash SurfBlog

Jan 15 2010

High as kite

Published by admin at 4:43 pm under Kitesurfing

Finally I’m Beach worthy again and out for the first shoot of this year as far as surf or wind is concerned.. missed the best this week but managed an hour down at Marazion today with the Kitesurfers..
First off a Big thanks to the Guys and girls down there for making it a great opportunity for a few shots, hopefully you’ll enjoy some of them in the Gallery

Its always nice to see the Ladies out there enjoying the surf and wind in such a male dominated sport as Surfing Windsurfing and no doubt Kiting, and all power to them they were doing a great job..

Well it was action from the start, although I have to admit I wasn’t thereat the start of the session, but certainly from the time I got down the beach it was action packed.. not the best shot in the world as this Surfer leapt into the air behind me directly in front of the sun but I liked it silhouette or not…I have to make an apology round about here as I’m useless at remembering names but I also have to get used to all the guys out there who surf Marazion Regularly with the kites because I have no idea of most of them.. so if ya want to help out by putting names to images I’d greatly appreciate a note or email.

On with the show and here’s a spectacular Sequence of one of the High Flyers.. and yes he did land it and carry on..

The shots don’t really do justice to the Heights gained by some of these guys on their leaps but believe me when I say this Guy was pretty damned High.. High as a kite

Here’s another guy who was putting on some spectacular moves, though again I have to admit I don’t know the names of the manouvers or jumps, and its something I really should get to understand as with the surf and windsurf I understand the timing and the moves set ups etc so it makes for better shots.. as I don’t believe you can get the best out of a session if you’ve never surfed, I should practice what I preach and study the manouvers of the kiters to understand more about the sport and give them better results of a session than I can just picture taking..

All in all I’ve a lot to learn about this sport so if anyone wants to help with a chat I’m always open.. I’m certainly going to be doing more this year hopefully now I’m on the Chemo anti TNF treatment making it more possible for me to get out there.

Enough of that and on with the session..

Like all Photographers I like a pretty face in the picture so sorry Guys you’re gonna lose out every time when there’s smiles to be had from the ladies

Even though most of the times the smiles are an embarrassment at having a big Lens poked in their direction lol … Don’t get me wrong though, I take nothing away from these Ladies, they were doing what they were out there to do and doing it well as you can see from the shots…

Its just a bonus that they’re a whole lot prettier than most of you (well in my eyes anyhow ) lol

And they SMILE!! sometimes you lot can look rather menacing lol.. J/K

Well I’d decided to limit myself today to ease myself back into shooting, and I also wanted to try out the new setup on the website which is an awful lot more work behind the scenes setting up the pick of the day and the highlights etc, so I’ll just finish off with a few of my favourites from the session and make apologies to those I missed..

A nicely executed manouver … I liked this.. (Gotta stop sounding like bloody facebook)

Not sure if this was strapless surfing but I have a feeling it was.. always nice to see different manouvers made from different boards..

Here’s another spectacular leap perfectly executed and landed…

and finally more of those nervous/ embarrassed smiles I was talking about which I feel (if I can get names and email addresses from these 2 ladies ) definitely warrant going into the Splash Pose Free Monthly Prize Draw (see Pick of the day Page for details)