Paul Villecourt
This festival was fantastic, really fun! My pictures are online :
http://paul.villecourt.com/photos/
Dominick Lemarie
"You do it, I take it" that's my motto!
I started sea kayaking in March 2006, and soon got a test of surfing while learning how to launch and land in the surf. That was it, my sea kayak carrier was already over. I bought a used Jive and played with it for a year, then purchased a Valley Storm. I'm at my second shell now, I broke the first one in November 2007 in San Onofre on a (too) big day (for me). Others had fun that day... I had a lesson.
I'm a photographer and diver, so I figured two years ago that I could mix two passions and use my underwater housing in the surf too. From being the San Diego Polo (horses) Club official photographer I already had a high speed camera and lenses. To resume, I already had the toys and the passion for our sport to make it happen from above and/or at water level. And now here I am, following you through the lens , Ventura in October 2008, and Santa Cruz in March 2009. I'm always looking for more, so we'll see each other again.
Oh, I forgot, if you heard me talking you noticed the accent, I was born in the Comoros Islands (no wonder I love the Ocean) and after many years in France, we moved with my wife to San Diego in March 2002.
See you in the surf!
Dominick.
http://www.stormick.smugmug.com
Ed Guzman
To all who were in the Kayak contest,
I thoroughly enjoyed the event! My job as the Surf Ambassador became many things. The biggest responsibility was to keep surfers out of the contest area and prevent interferences. At Steamer Lane on the bigger days when the surf is Pumping, this will become a major diplomatic and logistical task. Weighing in at a fearsome 150 lbs of solid muscle and bone with an untrimmed mustache, knowledge of what to do ..
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Gary Luhm
The 25th annual Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival was held March 20-22, 2009, at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz. The surf and light were poor on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, the night's rain cleared before dawn and the sun rose blissfully in the east; threatening off-shore clouds stayed away for the morning. The surf grew from an anemic 3 feet on Friday to maybe 5 feet, still small. All images were shot from a kayak on the water. It wasn't difficult to get fairly close with a 300mm f/4, and the water-level perspective made the waves look bigger than they actually were.
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