Exit Strategy
Means of escaping one’s current predicament, typically an unfavourable situation.

Exit Strategy
Means of escaping one’s current predicament, typically an unfavourable situation.

Compton Beach Panorama Vertorama, Isle of Wight., originally uploaded by s0ulsurfing.

A nice little summer swell rolls into Compton Bay

Seems like forever since i last posted a surfing photo and longer since we had nice waves… But we had a nice little summer swell yesterday and i managed to grab a few shots after i got out too. Real nice to be out there in the sunshine in a thin summer wetsuit for a change ( as opposed to head-to-toe 5mm winter gear).

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The shot was taken during the good swell on the 6th Feb 2010, you can see more from that day in the ‘You should’ve been here yesterday…’ blog

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. Retro surf style

I think like all sites it’s best considered a ‘work in progress’ and the look and feel may evolve as the content grows (its week one of a two year project) but i’m reasonably happy with this first stab at it, and I would love to hear your feedback on the design, technology or content, good or bad.

screengrab of wightsurfhistory.co.uk

Featuring the work of local photographers and surfers, Jason Swain and Paul Blackley, its the first event of the Wight Surf history Project, which aims to document and celebrate 50 years of surfing on the Isle of Wight.

We got the go-ahead for this project on Tuesday, the exhibition starts Friday, nothing like a bit of last minute pressure to get you focused! (at the same time as HAVING to play in the snow and go surfing

So, i’d like to invite all my friends from all over the world to the exhibition, please put your RSVP in the comment box below and i will arrange first class flights and travel from anywhere (please note, that is a big lie, and i wont really do anything of the sort, but you are more than welcome to come under your own steam).

And if you’re that way inclined, please feel free to blog or tweet or facebook this and help publicise the event.

Cheers
Jason

Surf photography exhibition

Portrait of a Psychedelic Surfer

Portrait of a ‘Psychedelic Surfer’ was chosen as the ‘photo of the week’ at photographyblog.com. The portrait of Ian Pace posing with his board at Compton Bay is a wide angle ‘Vertorama’, a digital composite stitched just like a panorama but vertical instead of horizontal.

The surf wasnt very good that day and i’d been taking shots of the west wight landscape with the wonderful ‘cirrus fibratus vertebratus’ sky and it struck me how perfect the setting would be for a shot of ‘Pacey’ in his natural element with a bit of whooshing from the clouds and the waves surging up the beach.

The shot was taken at a secret spot on the south coast of Cornwall. There was a big swell running on the north coast that day, but the strong northerlies made south coast shelter the only viable option for a clean wave. It was nice but didn’t look that exciting at low tide as maybe 3ft of swell wrapped round, but as the day went on and the tide pushed up a wave would reflect sideways off the cliffs and meet the next one in the set creating a fantastic wedge that broke into very shallow water. There were about half a dozen local bodyboarders (no stand ups, it was a definite board breaker) all charging right into the mouth of this thing and having a great time and I have to say that to this day its still some of the most fun I’ve ever had behind the camera (I didn’t fancy taking my longboard into that!)

Bodyboarding at Porthcurno

front page of the photoshelter.com website

Room with a view – Corbiere, Jersey (My dream surf shack, waves included f.o.c.) features on the front page of the photoshelter.com website when i am selected as a ‘featured photographer’ for July 2009.

The shot of a rarely surfed break near the Corbiere lighthouse, was taken on holiday during August 2008 on a lovely summers day

Big surf at Corbiere