Happy Holidays Party!
It was a great party good food and an all around good time. I was lucky enough to walk away with two new boards! The 2 new boards are a 6’5 Stretch F4 Quad and a Surf RX 6’1 Tri for kiting.
Author: Bryan Elkus
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AM Surf with O’Neill Rep
Tommie, Jason, Matt and I meet up with Brad Harrell, our O’Neill Rep, for a quick surf session. There was a nasty current ripping on the inside, but there were some nice head high waves coming through.
It was Tommie’s first day back on the water after breaking his leg and he scored some great waves. Brad was killing it. He had some of the best waves of the session It was a great way to start the day.
I ended the day with another terrific Cape Hatteras Sunset.
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Cape Hatteras Photo Book
The Cape Hatteras (OBX) Photo Book is a compilation of photos taken throughout the course of a year in Cape Hatteras, NC. The, OBX, Outer Banks are full of perfect moments waiting to be caught on camera, but being in the right place at the right time and with a camera in hand is the hard part.
After 365 days on this amazing island and thousands of exposures later, I came away with only a handful of keepers. The next forty pages have some of my favorite images. Take a look, show a friend and enjoy the natural and raw beauty of Cape Hatteras, NC as I see it every day. The book is 40 pages and is 7″ x 7″
Take a look at Bryan Elkus Photo Books on Blurb.com
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Another Day in Cape Hatteras
All eyes are currently fixed on the North Shore of Hawaii, as they are expecting one of the largest swells in years, with 25-50 foot waves. It was a rather relaxed day in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, however, we should have waves coming later this week.
But today the waves were small and the wind light so there wasn’t much to do, so I decided to head out and take some pictures during lunch. It proved to be a fun solo shoot.
I took out two flashes with me and headed to an area with a lot of tall reeds. The sky was gray and overcast with sunrays shining through. It made for some great scenic shots of the wetlands.
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REAL Holiday Catalog
The 2009 REAL Holiday Catalog has hit mailboxes across the nation. The goal of the catalog was to give our readers some good eye candy during the holiday and start of the spring season. The catalog features new products that REAL has used and has a reason for promoting, as it’s the gear we have been using.
On the production side, things were rough. The project came to fruition only 2 week before Thanksgiving. This gave me one week for design, photo and layout and 1 week for printing and distribution. A catalog is not typically something done in a week! But, once I came up with the overall theme for the catalog things went pretty smoothly. We added in the original text and as many photos as possible to give the readers plenty to look at. Even though it was one of the most pressured projects I have worked on, it was one of the best final results I have had to date.
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2010 Liquid Force Havoc Video By REAL
2010 Liquid Force Havoc Reviewed by REAL from Real Watersports on Vimeo.
We put together a not so short video review about the 2010 Liquid Force Havoc. There were so many new features that it was hard to cut it below 10 minutes. Because the target market loves the technical video we just rolled with the lengthier video.Matt Nuzzo did the overview of the new kite and Jason Slezak (REAL Team Manager/ International Team Rider for REAL and Liquid Force) spoke about his favorite new features of this kite. Chris Stephany and I shot the video, while i did a quick edit of the footage for release.
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Outer Beach’s Realty 2010 Catalog
Outer Beach’s Realty in Cape Hatteras, NC released their 2010 Catalog. It features some of my work along with a couple other local photographers. Be sure to pick up a copy today, or request a Catalog.
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Sessions & Sunsets
Today was very warm for being December. It was probably high 60s or low 70s and sunny. The Crew packed up the gear and headed out to Ramp 23 for some side-off waves kiting. It turned out to be too light to get anything done.
We packed up and headed north to find a surf session. We found a nice break as did a 20-30 other people, but there was so much current that it seemed like you had the line up to yourself. The waves were head high freight trains crushing onto dry sand. Today was the first day that i’ve ever gone to drop in to see bare sand in the middle of the Ocean. I didn’t catch anything, but i witnessed some amazing barrels.
We ended the day was a nice sunset.
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Cape Hatteras Sunrise
I was woken this morning with a frantic phone call that the sunrise was all time. I rushed down to the beach, and sure enough it looked like there was a fireball rising from the horizon.
I then proceeded to drive down to the pier and locked my keys in the car as i was in such a rush. I forgot about the truck for a moment and went around snapping a few more pictures. Chris Stuckey came to my rescue with some coat hangers and we made our way back into the truck.
