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Incoming: Mavericks on Drift Surfing
Drift Surfing published my account of the Mavericks surf contest with my words and 28 full screen size images here. The piece is not a commentary on contests or corporate sponsors. It is about my...
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Cold Water Souls (1 of 4)
I was commissioned by a publisher in the UK to shoot a few portraits of surfers from Santa Cruz, CA for a book titled Cold Water Souls. The publisher also ran a few images from my archive of surfing...
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Cold Water Souls (2 of 4): Hunter & Flea
A portrait series of surfers from Santa Cruz, CA photographed for the book titled Cold Water Souls by Chris Nelson. Outtakes, selections, and archives on Northern California surfing below. click to...
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Cold Water Souls (3 of 4): Richard Schmidt
A portrait series of surfers from Santa Cruz, CA photographed for the book titled Cold Water Souls by author Chris Nelson. Outtakes, selections, and archives on Northern California surfing below. click...
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Cold Water Souls (4 of 4): Zach Wormhoudt
A portrait series of surfers from Santa Cruz, CA photographed for the book titled Cold Water Souls by author Chris Nelson. Outtakes, selections, and archives on Northern California surfing below. click...
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Skater Roger Mihalko
Northern California skater Roger Mihalko has one of the most unique styles of anyone I’ve ever seen. He truly brings creativity and soul to the sport and rides as if he is making a piece of art in the...
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Lifestyle, Sports, & Fitness Shoot
Below are a few sports images from a shoot for Magellan GPS that were photographed at locations in the Santa Cruz area. The campaign will be used for advertising and promotion of a new fitness product...
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Big Air Portraits: Burnquist + Brusco
One of the best things about skateboarding is that it doesn’t discriminate against age. This was proven at the X Games this year in the Skateboard Big Air competition in Los Angeles. First place and...
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Surfing Photography Tips Feature by Nikon
click to enlarge One wave up. Two surfers sliding down. Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, CA. Nikon 300mm 2.8 w/ TC-17E 1.7x teleconverter. This makes me smile. Nikon interviewed me and featured 12 of my...
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Cycling In Palo Alto
Cycling up Old La Honda, a classic climb in Palo Alto, CA. My first bike was a yard sale gem. It had 20″ wheels and the forks were raked out like a motorcycle chopper. I was crushed when the cranks...
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Off to Hawaii…
click to enlarge Bull rider at rodeo in Woodside, Ca © Jay Watson Photography Portrait of a surfer at Pacifica, Ca © Jay Watson Photography Well I wish it was me that is off to Hawaii for either a...
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Bull Out Of The Pen
Bull On The Loose. Woodside, CA Bull On The Loose. Woodside, CA © Jay Watson Photography This image was photographed at Woodside, CA rodeo which is part of the California Junior Rodeo series. Obviously...
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Duane Peters Is More Hardcore Than You
click to enlarge Laidback grind by DP at Lake Cunningham in San Jose, CA © Jay Watson Photography Where does your inspiration come from? I would like to ask Duane Peters. He placed 3rd at the 10th...
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Rodeo de Driscoll part 1
A photographer that you know of likes to shoot rodeos. These are events that happen in quick movements and at great speed. click to enlarge © Jay Watson Photography Tweet
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Our Only Summer Swell (1 of 5)
There was only one swell that hit Northern California this past summer. All the others were over hyped or they just passed right on through. A few magic days came to Santa Cruz starting on July 24th....
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Our Only Summer Swell (2 of 5)
Each day this week I will be posting images from the only summer swell that hit Northern California. This is the second post out of 5 scheduled. People talked about this swell for days online. We heard...
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Our Only Summer Swell (3 of 5)
Each day this week I will be posting images from the only summer swell that hit Northern California. This is the third post out of 5 scheduled. This entire group of images is from Steamer’s Lane in...
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Our Only Summer Swell (4 of 5)
Each day this week I will be posting images from the only summer swell that hit Northern California. This is the 4th post out of 5 scheduled. One of the more unique elements about skateboarding and...
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Our Only Summer Swell (5 of 5)
Each day this week I have been posting images from the only summer swell that hit Northern California. This is the final post out of 5 total. It brings me great sadness to let you know that I didn’t...
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Surf Icon: Buttons Kaluhiokalani
I had the honor of photographing pro surfer, icon, and North Shore legend Buttons Kaluhiokalani at his home break in Oahu, Hawaii. Upon first meeting Mr. Kaluhiokalani he was washing sand off his feet...
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