Back to Basics

These are some shots that I took over Thanksgiving break. I decided to go back to basics a bit, and load up some of my old SLR’s with film. I loaded my Uncle’s old Sears MX500 with a roll of B&W and my old Canon AE-1 with a roll of color. With the cameras loaded up, I went roaming around with my friend Nick. It definitely proved to be a fun project, and the shots turned out much better than I had expected, yet exactly how I wanted. I’m definitely going to do this again sometime soon. Thanks for reading.

And, you can now become a fan of my page on facebook!

Chris

Winter Preview

It seems a bit early for Winter to pop its head out at this time of year, but we’ve had a good bit of snow here in NJ this weekend. About an inch of snow fell around my area, and it was great. It’s been so long since it’s snowed, but it’s finally back again. Hopefully this is a preview of what is to come this winter…

Also, I just found out that sometime during January, I’ll be heading out to Utah to snowboard, which should be awesome. Definitely looking forward to that! Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you next week.

Chris

The End of November

November came and went faster than any month this year it seems. It’s been a great month, filled with tons of great photos and videos (Scroll to the bottom of this page for the November archive).

Thanks for reading,and I’ll see you next week.

ChrisG

Cold

The day after Thanksgiving, my friend Chris and I went down the shore to catch the post Thanksgiving waves. As you can see from the few shots I took, they weren’t all that great, but it was fun and I was happy to get out in the water one last time before being done with surfing for the year. It’s amazing how cold the water is right now, and in order to go in, (I think) you need to wear boots, gloves a fullsuit and a hood. This collage highlights that.  Thanks for checking things out, and check back tomorrow, as I’ll have some photos for you.

Chris

Thanksgiving Week

25 things/people I’m thankful for: God, friends, Sea Isle City, New Jersey, cloudy days, sunsets, cameras, John Frusciante, surfing, cheese pie, the Pine Barrens, family, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, music in general, ideas, happiness, light, dark, school, life, water, phones, parents, pain, traveling.

Check back on Sunday for more photos of surfing. Thanks for reading!

Chris

Respite

This is a random HDR I did (of the Sixers’ stadium). Not much has been happening recently besides school. School’s been crazy the past few weeks, but I have this whole week off for Thanksgiving. Check back next week on Friday and Sunday for Thanksgiving and surfing photos.

Chris

Nor’easter at 8th

As many people may know, the Jersey shore has been getting battered by heavy rain, surf and strong winds for the past couple of days. Many roads and bridges are closed off, and a ton of roads are flooded. I was able to go down the shore on Saturday (courtesy of Chris Norcross and family) and take a look at how well Ocean City survived.

Saturday morning we drove down the shore in good time. We arrived around 10 and found that the waves were big and sloppy. Then we drove into town to check out what was going on. At first, we went all the way to the North end of the island, only to find that roads and beaches were blocked off, so, we drove down to 8th street instead, where it was bombing and pretty clean. I took a ton of pictures over there. After about 2 1/2 hours, Chris paddled out and I stayed on the beach, and found that a whole crew had just arrived at 8th street, and were heading in the water. The crew was an all star lineup: Rob Kelly, Andrew Gesler, Matt Keenan and Sam Hammer, among others. With some of the Garden State’s best surfers in the water, I started filming and shooting a ton, and scored some great photos and footage. Soon thereafter, Chris got out and we  looked at some of the flooded streets and finally went home.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed. Check back next week and the following week for my Thansgiving break photos.

Chris

Fruitless

And an HDR I did:

Not a lot happening right now in terms of photos. I shot some of the last fall foliage, and I also shot a Wine Tasting event. The last photo is an HDR of the main tasting area.

I’m hoping that next week and the coming weeks bring some more interesting things to shoot, because as of right now, I’ve got nothing new, which proved this week to be pretty fruitless. Hopefully next week I’ll see you with more photos than this.Enjoy your week.

Chris

New Moon Rising

Today is the first day of November. Besides June, November is definitely my favorite month of the year. Unfortunately, most of the outrageous foliage that occupied my area has left. There are a few trees left to change, which I will be sure to shoot next week, but the vast majority of the trees are bare. I guess that fits for this weekend, though, because it was Halloween and it would be wierd without bare trees. Oh well, whatever.

Today I shot a quick video (higher quality on VIMEO: http://vimeo.com/7382693) which you can view above, and some shots of the moon. My favorite is definitely the last one. While I was eating dinner, I looked out the window and saw a really cloudy sky and a rising full moon. Of course, I couldn’t pass it up, and I shot some 1 minute fisheye exposures of it. I called it New Moon Rising in dedication to one of my favorite bands (Wolfmother) new album. Definitely worth listening to. That’s all for this week, thanks for checking in, and check back next week for the end of the foliage.

Chris

A Plethora of Gold & Red

I’ve said this a couple of times already, but this weekend is truly the return of fall. Almost all of the leaves have changed, and quite a few have fallen to the ground. The maple leaves are the best shooting oppurtunity right now, as they’re saturated with incredible golds, reds, and yellows. The colors on them are so incredible. And the oak trees around me normally just turn borwn and then wither and die out, but this year, they’ve made an incredible last stand. They turned mostly on Thursday, and they went from yellow-gold-brown and they still haven’t fallen off the branches yet. Right now my area is a forest of gold, yellow and red. And I love it.

I was sick last weekend. The lack of photos I guess showed that, but I’ll explain anways. I contracted a sickness on Friday night, and then it developed the next day. It turned into a viscious fever+cold combo. I wasn’t able to even get out to take pictures. I got over my sickness on Wednesday, and was able to shoot some photos this weekend.

I was also able to film some of the foliage, and put it into a video along with some surfing footage I took last September. Enjoy! http://vimeo.com/7251320

I’ll be taking more foliage shots the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out and check back next week. Thanks for visiting.

Chris