The Tanager Blog

I’m posting one from the archive for two reasons. One, I want to test this RSS feed from WordPress into Facebook. I want all my homeys to get this in their minifeed.

While I was at it, I figured I may as well blog about something. This shot was taken with the Olympus, which is a minor miracle considering it has such a shite motordrive. My friend Adam and I were doing the most ridiculous trip possible: 72 hours from Denver (or even more crazy, Richmond, VA in his case) to Honolulu for the final show of U2′s Vertigo Tour.

The day after the show, Adam took surf lessons while I went around photographing the beach. I found these local kids dinking around on skimboards…kids who were so comfortable in the surf it was as though they were born in the ocean. I walked out on a jetty, put my 150–300mm on the camera and started tracking them across the breaking waves. As luck would have it, I’d capture “Waikiki Physics Lesson” just as the oldest nailed a wave and flipped over the break. The white foam streak on the sand adds kind of a cartoonish ridiculousness to it all.

Adam said it best: “dude, fuggin’ AWE-some.”