Present Tense “Welcome to the Island” from Nate Appel on Vimeo.
Action Sports film studio, Cineptic released a section to their new Kiteboarding video for 2010 Present Tense, which can be pre-ordered here.

We had a terrific Thanksgiving on the Outer Banks. Lulu’s mom cooked away for us, while Mark Brown let us invade his house on the ocean to celebrate the festivities (Thank you!). We all ate to our hearts content and then followed it up with a terrific desert and very shortly followed by a massive food coma.
Chris Burke and I scored (again check out Burke’s SBC Kiteboarding Cover) the cover of Stance DVD #42. I have not received my copy yet so i am not sure what is on it but i look forward to taking a look! Chris worked hard and pretty late into the night sessioning the REAL Dock Slider to help me dial in this shot.
I’m excited about how well the REAL Josh Mulcoy Ad turned out the last issue of Kiteboarding Magazine. Trip and the guys helped to put together this one. The idea was to show Josh doing the same turn Kiteboarding and Surfing, and to show people what can be done behind a kite now.

Here are a couple shots from Kiteworld #48 and Kiteboarding Magazine June 2011.




The sunset tonight was incredible (just like yesterday’s). The wind never picked up. So the Pamlico Sounds stayed glassy, which made the sunset look tremendous.

Today was a very calm day, with no wind or waves. I had plenty of time to catch up on a lot of things around the house. As the sun started to fall in the late fall sky, I packed up my gear and headed out to shoot. It was as glassy as I have seen it in a very long time. The light on the landscape was almost better an hour or so before sunset when it was nearly impossible to see the horizon. The sun’s reflection in the water was like a mirror, making some of the images seem as if there were two suns.




