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A few images in B/W from todays Fox SurferX

Surfer's Path Folio

The guys at Surfer's Path approached me a few months ago to do a photographer profile on my work, of course i jumped at the chance. So together with what i had been submitting to them over the last year or so and some recent material they compiled a pretty cool piece. Today i finally got to see it in print, really stoked and proud so if you see the July/August issue at a surf store or CNA, check it out.

Farmer's Weekly

All those Kruger trips and wildlife stock images paying off with the cover of the latest Farmer's Weekly...

Beautiful locations

Click here to check a little slideshow from our recent Reunion trip on the Zigzag website. It's a little teaser with some leftover shots from our stay but do yourself a favor and go buy the latest Zigzag where you will find the feature article. Also featured in that issue is the Morocco trip i did earlier this year. Been very blessed to have traveled to these beautiful locations and really stoked with the images, have a look and hopefully enjoy!

Cover of Latest Zigzag

Cover of the latest Zigzag with Dave Weare from our recent trip to Reunion. One of those shots that just got that feeling when i shot it and checked it on the screen. St leu is a great place to shoot and once we had seen our angles i was just waiting and hoping we were going to get one of those afternoons with the clean goldern light. Dave's first cover in 9 years or something so we both super stoked!!!

July

July has been a busy time with the Mr Price and the Billabong Pro straight after each other so blogging has taken a bit of a back seat, but I'm back. It was emotional stuff this year as Jordy Smith won both contests and in doing so becomes the first Saffa to win a WCT event and he goes to #1 in the world. We photographers spend a week shooting but it all comes down to one image. There was a little pushing and shoving as photographers tried to get the best claim shot as Jordy exited the water in J-Bay (ask Craig Kolesky). But I don’t think any of us quite expected the emotion we saw. It was an incredible moment in South African surfing and it won't easily be topped.

From J-Bay it was back to Durban to get the images out for editorial and start working on some new projects. Last week I met up with Rudy Palmboom for a Fox catalogue shoot. Rudy was in fine form in front of the camera busting out a few poses he has been working on and has even expanded his skills to location scouting. Thanks Rug!

Few more things on the cards, will keep you posted.

SA Surf Photographer of the Year

Me accepting my award/canvas from the legend Chris Van Lennep at the South African Surfing awards last Sunday. I have to say I'm really stoked and honoured and a big thanks to everyone for the support over the years. Picture by Pablo Ponzone

Mr Price Pro Ballito

I went to go check out the Mr Price Pro website as the contest started today. Was scrolling the galleries and came across this one taken by Kelly Cestari of a photo i took haha. It's been used as a Billboard outside the Lifestyle Center in Ballito and i guess it's a little reminder of just how good the waves were last year. Pretty Cool...

Canary Islands expose'

Click here to go check the latest Sheriffs Lightbox on the Canary Islands.

You’ve done us proud!

Yes we may have not made it through to the next round and in doing so South Africa becomes the first host nation not to advance to the round of 16 of a Soccer World Cup. BUT we need to see the bigger picture here. With South Africa ranked 83rd in the world not many people even gave us a hope of scoring a goal, let alone beating France, former Champions and currently ranked 9^th.

Ever since Tshabalala's phenomenal opening goal of the tournament against Mexico any negative perceptions were blown away and Bafana Bafana showed the world what they were made of.

So if there are still any sceptics and cynics for that matter out there, whatever… Bafana Bafana, you’ve done us proud!

Reunion Island

A week into our trip now and we have definitely had our fair share of waves. The guys have had a nice taste of what Reunion has to offer, bummer they had to share it with all the locals… haha, but all good! The swell backed off a little today and after a session at St. Leu and a little lunch we headed just out side of town to a blowhole Jason and Dale had been to last time they were on the island. Pretty cool I must say and decided a little self portrait was in order.

I may not be into blogging everyday but Jason has so if you interested and want to see what we have been getting up to plus a few images go to The Africa Project Blog.

Counting myself lucky...

Three days into our trip and really enjoying Reunion. WOW this island is beautiful with so much to offer! Felt a bit of a tourism sales pitch coming on so will hold off on that haha. But seriously, besides the surf which is looking promising for the rest of the trip, Reunion is an amazing place! Todays forecast was not looking to great so we decided last night that we would have a really early start and do the long winding drive above St Gille to a scenic lookout. None of us really knew what we were in store for but can honestly say we were all totally blown away and felt like we were on top of the world! There are times in life when you find yourself reflecting and you realize just how blessed we are...
Like i said, charts are looking good so will keep you posted.