I re-discovered a couple of images the other day of a German surf magazine called Tide, I can’t find the website for them any more so I think they might have gone under.
They featured a couple of my photo’s from a trip to Indonesia in 2012, it was a great trip to a relatively unknown region of Indonesia, Maluku.
My shot is the one in the top right of this spread, one of the other guys on the trip and I had grabbed a lift to the beach next to one of the best waves we surfed on the trip, we’d surfed the reef in the morning and wanted to have a look at the beach to see if there was a wave there too.
I wondered along the beach until I could frame the shot with the boat we were staying on, the Sama Sama, in the top left and the wave breaking in the bottom right, working with the rule of thirds (see forthcoming post on composition), I’ve been experimenting with a more full on, less realistic editing of some photo’s, so here’s a re-edit from today of this old photo which brings out the clouds a bit more:
The next one features an action shot of our captain, Jocko, at a spot that he named Nachos, because of the shape of the reef.
I was standing on the deck of the boat when I took this shot, after we’d all had a nice session on the A-frame reef, I was mostly interested in the shallower rights than the longer lefts but the guys were making the most of the various sections, we went in and had a look around the village the next day too, it’s such a different experience spending time in this part of the world, I’m glad I got the chance to be part of the trip.
At some point in the future I will put up a whole re-cap on this trip, it was definitely a memorable one, and there’s lots of photo’s that I took that I want more people to see, and also plenty that are good illustrations of mistakes you can learn from.