Bryan Elkus

Category: SUP

  • Photos on Imagista

    Some of my surf/standup photography was featured on Imagista. Go take a look!

  • Sunset Standup Shoot with Trevor Murchie

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    Friday was a crazy busy day. I had to put together an ad of Surfer Magazine. Once that was finalized, I grabbed Trevor and a SUP for a quick shoot. We drove up to SDA and I had him take a quick session on one of the new Gerry Lopez Lil Darling SUP 8’11.
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  • Classic Cape Hatteras Susnet

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    If a perfect sound glass off wasn’t enough for the day, we lucked out with an all time sunset. Zack and Beth headed out for a paddle and i caught up with them as they headed out.

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  • 0809 Trip Day 20 | Maui

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    It was another early riser this morning. Pre dawn we pulled up to Ho’okipa to be extremely disappointed. There has been all this talk about the XXL Swell headed to Maui and we were supposed to be getting some by now. It was small, waist to head high waves coming through. It was still a good time, but we were hoping for a little more size. We were in the water until about 10am and then it was off to the Airport and on my way to Florida.

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    Maui was terrific. I had a great time meeting tons of new people, old friends and seeing a new place. I learned a lot and even progressed my photography a bit. It was a great leg of the trip.

    For all the pictures for Day 20, Click HERE

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    0809 Trip Log:
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  • 0809 Trip Day 19 | Maui

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    We woke up this morning just before sunrise. After looking out over Maui we narrowed down our search of waves off of Frank’s porch. We headed out to go check a couple breaks. The spot we rode was nicknames “Sandpiles” by the guys.

    A few others joined us for the dawn session including, Bryan Altham, Randy Royse, Greg Sheehan and helicopter master Eddie. We rode there for a couple hours. There were some good waves that came through but the waves really backed off from the previous day.

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    Tomorrow is expected to pick up a lot again so we might be able to get a morning session in before my flight. After the session we checked a couple other spots, Kanaha was too far of a swim and by the time we got out to Paia the Kona winds were already starting to crank. We headed back to Frank’s house for a little R&R, food and editing.

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    Julien and I again headed to Morris’ house to do a little more work to his standups. Then we went to Hookipa where julien did Standup at Lanes and I shot Lanes and Hookipa. The waves were still large and there were some rippers out again. As soon as the sun went down, Frank came out to shoot a couple portrait shots. We then ran up to Haiku to go see Daniel the board glasser and then returned home for my last night in Maui for a while.

    For all the pictures for Day 19, Click HERE

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    0809 Trip Log:
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  • 0809 Trip Day 18 | Maui

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    I had got a bunch of editing done yesterday morning. After we headed back towards Paia. Julien headed out to Tow with Eraldo and Gerald. I hung out at Lanes and Hookipa. I took a nice nap on the beach and then Jon Modica and Greg Norman showed up.

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    The surf was large today, although my large is not a lot of these guy’s large. It was easily twice as big as the day before. They were calling it 6-7 foot Hawaiian. I wound up spending the rest of the day there shooting from the lookout watching the massive waves roll in. Without anywhere to store my gear I couldn’t head out.

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    I waited there until dark for Julien to come back in from towing. I meet up with Frank Forbes (the guy in the Standup shots from a couple days ago) again. He invited me to come to his house and then head out early in the morning to ride. I took him up on the offer so hopefully we’ll score something tomorrow.

    For all the pictures for Day 18, Click HERE

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    0809 Trip Log:
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  • 0809 Trip Day 17 | Maui

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    I’m not even going to tell you how we started the day today… after the coffee shop and some work we headed to Hookipa again. I hung out on the beach for an hour or so watching the surfers and relaxing. The tide started to drop a bit and the waves started to get better. I put the waterhousing together and swam out. The break was still packed at Hookipa.

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    We grabbed one shot at Hookipa before we had to move to a different break as it was too crowded to Standup there. We swam down to Lanes which looks a lot closer than it really is. Already at Lanes was Frank and Brian. I shot with the three of them for a couple hours.

    The tide was really dropping out and the reef was getting uncomfortably shallow. To add upon that, twords the end of the session we had about 15 set waves hit us in a row. Duck dive after duck dive I made it out, somehow unscathed, while the boys were having a much tougher time on the inside with those big boards.

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    After shooting for a couple hours, the swim back to Hookipa was not the most enjoyable. Back on the beach exhausted and striping myself of gear I hear, “Hey do you shoot in Hatteras?” I look up and laugh, its Elliot Leboe of ACL Productions headed out for a surf. It was good to run into him again. We headed into town for a little and then again on the way home we stopped back at Lanes to shoot a couple sunset pictures.

    For all the pictures for Day 17, Click HERE

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    0809 Trip Log:
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  • 0809 Trip Day 14 | Maui

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    I bet you already know how we started the day out…? Yes the coffee shop. But i actually got up a little early to take some pictures and scored a couple good ones. After the coffee shop we headed to DHL to pick up a couple new Standup Paddleboards that got shipped to Julien. We didn’t have a lot of room in the bed of the truck before, now were just pushing it.

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    We headed over to Kite Beach for a little. Julien put his new boards together and I took a couple shots. The conditions were not great. It was pretty off shore and not much of a wave, of course I didn’t bring my binding the one day we could have rode flat water.

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    We then headed to Mauricio’s place. He let me borrow his 11’ Jimmy Lewis SUP, and then drove us up to Hookipa to do a SUP downwinder. We paddled out just before sunset. We spent about an hour at Hookipa on the left break catching a couple fun waves. It was blowing at least 20 knots which made things a bit more difficult. 

    As the sun backed behind the mountains, the full moon started to glow stronger as we paddled down the coast. It was paddle by moon light the rest of the way to the beach near Morris’ house. We grabbed the truck, returned the SUP and headed home.

    For all the pictures for Day 14, Click HERE.

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    0809 Trip Log:
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  • Imagine SUPs


    Imagine surfboards used a shot of Julien that i took during one of the good waves session in Hatteras this fall. This is one of his new designs for Standup Paddleboards.