Author: Bryan Elkus

I headed out for a quick lunchtime shoot at the Eastern Surfing Championships. I grabbed a couple more cool shots.

Zack, Nick and I headed to the lighthouse after work to grab a session. I grabbed the 6’8 Fish. As we were walking to the water the sun popped through the clouds. I decided to hold of on the surfing and go grab the water casing form my truck. I scored a good hour and a half of good light to shoot. I took nearly 350 pictures, however maybe 30 are decent. It was good practice though. Zack, Nick and a few surfers (I’m assuming) from the Eastern Surfing Comp were out surfing near me. Below are a couple of the pictures. After the light went bad I scored my surf session. It was a blast and we wound up riding until dark.

(EDIT): Nick, Zack, Dave and I got up early (friday) to snag another surf session at the lighthouse. The waves were very fun and slowly growing in size.

The Crew headed to the lighthouse after work to find some very small ankel high waves. It was a bust, or so i thought. I decided to head up to Avon to hit up the Grocery store since there was no session to be had. As i was heading North up Hwy 12 i looked to my left and saw the sun starting to set. I knew it was going to be a good one so luckily i had the camera in my truck. I turned of at the KP turn off and waited. here are just a couple of the shots from last nights sunset:

I went to scope out the contest at lunch. The waves were still very small being low tide at the lighthouse. But the contest was still being held. I snapped a couple more shots, though the lighting was not very good. I think ill be heading back tonight after work when the light should be better.

The Eastern Surfing Championships are being held right now at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. They are here for the week. However, with little swell, it must be tough for a championship event. We are all egger to see if we will receive any swell from the Tropical Storm to the south. If we do it should make for some excellent photos. I went out to the lighthouse last night with zack and nick to shoot. The lighthouse was busier than I have ever seen it, just full of groms. I snapped a couple shots:

Monday we setup another photoshoot. This one took place at Kite Point with the Portakicker. Moe & Davey were in town so we headed to the point for a session. Meeting us there were: Brandon, enily, nichole, slezy, julien, the st. lucia guys and tekko. The wind was light, the lighting was not very good but the kicker was in the water, so the session started. We stayed out for a good 3 hours. And ended the shoot with a few sweet shots.

The Ne winds are back again for another day, though it looks like its going to die after today. Which would not be a bad thing because i think that we all need a little break from riding. I had a killer session yesterday at the lighthouse most of the crew was there with some visiting riders. It was a good time with head high surf light up on 9 and 7ms. Kp was juicy by the time i got there after work with storm cloud lingering we decided to not head out and session the lighthouse in the morning. No luck, i was up and ready to ride before the sun came up but there was little wind and the waves died down immensely. So I took some photos instead.

(Lane duPont took the last photographwww.lanedupont.com)

I just got done with a great session with Joel at Kite Point. I took a sprit so I could ride with joel for a few hours today. I showed up to KP to Joel throwing down some huge loops. I grabbed the camera a took a couple shots. Carrie was there rocking the 7m T2 fully juiced. She finally had a break through day and can stay upwind, so she was very excited. I had a fun session playing in the pro pool and boosting some air on my 9m fuel. It was a great session. Nadia, scott and many others were there too.

Weekend Wrap up

Im not really sure what is is about hatteras and the weekends but it goes off. Friday was not windy until 5:00. I got off work at 6 and headed down to the Washout in Frisco with Dave, Zack, Eric and Charlie. We scored a fantastic session. The storm clouds were rolling by us making the sky very dark but the sun was bright as could be lighting up the water a fantastic blue and the grass a bright green. We all rode the SW winds until dark and we were too tired to ride any longer. I rode a 13m Fuel and mission 144

Saturday was suppose to be NE all day but the front stalled out a bit so dave, zack and I scored two surf sessions at the light house. Joel from Ohio meet up with us just in time for the second surf session. The wind started to pick up and we headed to Kite Point to ride. I was on my 13m fuel again for a good couple hours until I couldn’t unhook any more. Then we decided to go for a downwinder from the avon pier to the buxton hotels. After that we could barley move, we headed home for dinner and crashed.

Sunday was cranking when we woke up. Joel and I headed to the Lighthouse early to check on the waves. There was not anything great yet so we headed to Kitepoint. We wound up riding there all day. It was a blast. Everyone came Sunday which made for a great time. Joel busted some huge kite loops and I finally learned some new tricks. to top off the weekend we had a great sunset and Nicks friend Carrie made us dinenr.