Looking for anything

Bucko, Grant and myself went on a desperate search for waves a few days ago. Found a two foot wave that ended with me hitting my housing off the reef (camera and housing still alive). When you haven't been in the water in a while its crazy how excited you get over two foot.

Haven't been shooting in ages. Heres an old one.

Chaplin remake

It finally snowed in limerick!

I'v been down so god dam long that it looks like up to me

Alot going on in this photo but with nothing too great resulting out of any of it. Still something cool to it.

Limerick city

Limerick city sucks when your sick.

Being sick in Limerick sucks. On the up side I have being over some old shots and finding some cool ones.

This was the worst day of swell from that week in september when it got really good. Waves have to come soon...right?

Waiting and waiting

Haven't been in the water in along time now. Starting to feel the effects. Although somethings are worth waiting for.

New film underway!!

Ollie Autumn Surf

For better quality video check out:

http://vimeo.com/16635757

Transfered over very bad.

Windy times

It has been windy and wet for a long time. A well, it could be worse.

Ollie

Halloween

Halloween for me was different this year. Instead of dressing up I got sick, and instead of going out I moped about the house thinking I was going to die and felt sorry for myself. I thought jumping in the water would cure me but it didnt exactly help. Did get some nice shots out of it do even with a runny nose and a dizzy head.

When the sun came through it was awesome.

This was about to be a 48 euro photo. On the next wave I got sucked over the falls and lost one of my fins. Luckly I found it bobbing about the rocks on the inside when I went back to look for it. Buckley is in there somewhere.

Cool project I did involving the Robot Pirates

Last week

Sent a few days last week scoring waves with Ollie and Bucko. Full story and pictures up tomorrow.

Ollie pointing where I should be shooting from

30 Hours

Three sessions, one practice, one gig, four meals, one rest, eight hundred and ninety eight photos, two and a quarter hours of footage, alot of driving and alot of waves, thirty hours.

Ferg-maybe a little bit bigger then 6-8 foot

Nice thing to wake up to

5.45 Saturday- cold, tired, packed and ready to go. Just after six we were on the road. Half an hour later we were on the cliff top watching huge lumps of water heaving onto shallow reef. We watched for a while. The cliff got crowded with interested participants and with the first sign of a ski rounding the corner it was empty again.

As we walked down along the reef we saw one of the English lads get slammed on a solid one. It was grey, waves were about 6-8 foot and there was alot of water moving, still there was a lot of people out.

I shot video for a while then the tide got too low and the line up cleared. Onto spot number two for the day.

Drop knee

Bottom turn

Danny boy

We grabbed a quick lunch when we got back to Lahinch then got back on the road. When we got to the cliffs it was crazy how many people were there. About 15 guys in the water and about another 30 consisting of photographers, videographers and viewers spread out along the cliff.

I made my way down along the cliff and started setting up. It was a solid 8 foot on the set with a few bigger ones coming through. After about 30 minutes of shooting video my battery died, despite my quick charge at lunch, and I shot stills for the rest of the day. When the line up started to clear again I made the trek back up along the cliff. Trek being the key word in that sentence.

I had to skip the evening session to go play music. Thankfully adrenaline kicked in and I had energy throughout practice.

That night I went to just show face at a friends gig and go straight home. Unfortunately they turned out to be really good and I ended up staying for the whole gig not getting home till about 1.30.

Not too sure who this is. Anyone?

Foam

5.45 Sunday- cold, tired, packed and ready to go. It was a little after 6 till we were on the road. For a strange reason I had way more life in me then the previous morning so everything was looking good. We met Dubber on the road, " Its good" , and we were straight down onto the reef. I shot from land for a little bit while waiting for the sun to rise over the cliff top. Much smaller swell. When the tide got too low we got out of there and headed back to Dubbers to make a plan to see what we would do for the day. I had my plan already made. Went home and went straight to bed.

It was awesome.

Looking out

Eoin

TUESDAY

It turns out that I know have tuesdays off college. With this, I now have a three in seven chance of scoring waves during the week without skipping college. Last week turned out in my favor for getting waves while not missing too much college.

Dubber getting some video footage

Tommy G

Little Empty

Unlike the rest of the week I actually got to sleep in on Tuesday morning. We were waiting till the afternoon to get in the water so I did absolutely nothing for the morning. It was awesome. Just about after one Ollie collected me from my house and we got going, first making a few quick stops for boards, extra camera equipment and an extra camera man, then onto rainy grey waves.

Tom on a sick one

Stef

We rocked up to find a load of people already on the reef so we didn't waste much time waiting to see a set. When we got down to the wave I quickly threw my camera into the housing and jumped into my wettie. I was running towards the wave when I realized that I had timed my entry horrendously bad, a quick sprint back to safty and one set later I was in the water.

Little heavy one

Hugo pulling in

100 barrels later I had another fun experience trying this time to get out of the water. Getting caught in the rip twice before finally getting out. On land I did a bit of video for a while. Unfortunately towards the end of the session Hugo took a bad fall hurting his leg, keeping him out of the water over the weekend. I also found out the next day after I left that Alec got caught inside by a set and snapped his board. Apparently it also took him three tries to get in.

Stupid rip!!

Grey, cold and awesome

Its been going off for the last few days. Between starting back to college and moving into a new place I managed to get back home and shoot abit, managed to catch a couple of waves too. Will post the photos of the weekend up in the next few days.

Under world

Its awesome underwater, lots of crazy stuff to look at. Normally when I shoot in the water if I sit really deep I just get nailed constantly and run out of energy really quick. But this day about two weeks ago I was having so much fun swimming under waves. Didn't actually get a shot to really sum up how much fun I was having under water but found these two shots I like.

Slow down

Swimming

I was home bored about three weeks ago and decided I would go for a swim before it got dark. I bumped into my mate nick on the way who was also going into the water, then another mate, then another. By the end of it my casual swim turned into a bit of a party in the middle of the bay. It was awesome.

Woody got bored of swimming so started flying. How can you get bored of swimming?

Before nick flipped the kayak over he told me that he wasnt too sure if he could flip it back over with out the paddle so if it seemed like he has been underwater for a while go get the paddle. fast.

The flipping paddle.

Waiting

Ollie and myself waiting for a set.

WIPEOUT-part 1

Surfing magazine do a page every month called , wipeout, and it shows exactly that, the months heaviest wipeout. Last Monday I say I must have taken about fifty photos of guys getting thrown from the lip and couldn't stop thinking of surfing magazines wipeout section so decided to make my own. So for the first issue of Jimbo's wipeout section I am proud to announce:

Pete not exactly making the drop but doing exactly what you should do on this crazy shallow slab, go head first.

Ollie taking off a bit late-he got pounded!! Would have been a sick wave to make do.

No idea who this is but I think its a sick fall. He looked like he was about to stick the drop but the nose seemed to dig and he got thrown. Also pounded.

This was another late drop pretty much less then a minute after Ollies, im guessing he also got pounded!

Been Busy

Been extremely busy shooting the last week the waves and the light has been amazing. Will have the photos up in the next day or two.

Bit too much spray hitting the camera but really like the shot.

The sea is coming back to life!

Tom on a nice one. Sickened about the focus!!

Music Buzz

Got this photo in Bakers in Limerick during the day a while back. The light sneaking in from outside combined with the lights on stage made it awesome. No idea who the band is, only took about four photos of them so was guessing I didn't like the sound of them.

Noland folk play Bradleys in Cork this Friday!

I miss the sun

Small day in June.