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I thought i was being smart the other day and tuned Ricky that i would be taking a % of his photo incentives in the future with all the coverage we have been getting… Of course Ricky Bobby is too much of a rock star to get silly photo incentives… and i was put back in my place. Guess I’ve just got to be grateful for having such a photogenic surfer to shoot… haha! Ricky Basnett, Senegal, DPS  in the latest Australian Surfing Life Magazine.

7 days, 7 screening, a whole lot of stoked surfers and good times catching up with everyone along the way. Check out the first of two slideshows on the Zigzag site here

Check out our Destination: Mozambique slideshow on Surfline, captions by Ricky Basnett and Simon Fish.

It may not be everyones number one choice in surf destination but over the last few years the surfing world has been taking notice of what Africa has to offer. Not long ago if you had asked an American or Australian surfer about Africa and surf they would have understandably said South Africa, maybe Morocco. But with the interest our coastline has been getting recently and the trips and discoveries been made, not to mention what else is out there… It seems it is the year of Surf in Africa. 

(Surfer and Tracks Magazine both running our Nigeria feature, Anarchy and A-frames in their latest issues.)

A Surfline Spot Check on St Leu, Reunion Island with images from our trip last year, narrated by Romain Cloitre. Reunion Island has to be the most beautiful place i have been fortunate enough to travel to and has an abundance of world class waves. For South Africans it’s just a short flight and is surprisingly affordable. So if any of you are looking for a surf destination, i highly recommend Reunion. Take the Mrs, there is plenty of shopping and sightseeing, or go with your mates, the French ladies are not too bad…

Check out a little Q&A i did  here with www.phototalk.co.za. Thank you to Gerhard Steenkamp for the opportunity, appreciate it!

A couple of years in the making and it’s finally here. My good mate Jason Hearn’s much anticipated film, The Africa Project will premier on Friday 25 November at Trinity, 15 Bennett Street, Green Point, Cape Town.

If you’re  a surfer in South Africa you would have heard all about it. For those of you who haven’t, it’s basically a film or documentary about Africa and travel in Africa seen through the eyes of a surfer. I was fortunate enough to be involved in the project, traveling to Senegal, Morocco, Reunion and around South Africa shooting stills and seen the footage. This is definitely something you don’t want to miss!

Pre-drinks at 18:30, Movie starts at 20:00,  it’s free so if you in Cape Town, be there… For those who are not, don’t worry, a road show is been planned heading along the coast up toward Durban in January…

So I was going through my files from our Morocco trip last year and had a good laugh when I found this one from a spot down south Denny took us to. It’s way off the map and unless you know someone who knows someone… chances are you’ve never heard of it, but thats beside the point… Nice West African line-up but Denny, come on bro, did you have to give your ass a good scratching just as a perfect set pulled through?? haha

It had been a few years since i last experimented with underwater shots so on a trip earlier this year to the Maldives i decided to spend a few sessions with the goggles on, ducking under and shooting while the guys went passed. This session i mixed it up and decided to slow the shutter speed down from your usual 1/1000 sec to anything from 1/15th to 1/30th. In the end i’m really stoked with this one of Wesley O’Driscoll. It is actually the second shot in a sequence, the first shot running in a few mags overseas and this shot running on Surfline and in the latest issue of Zigzag. Anyways click here to check the rest of the images in this months Surfline F-Stop.

Cover of the latest issue of Go! Really stoked, my first working for them. Inside you will find the feature we did on the Pondoland Hike, what a great trip! October issue, check it out.