…for winning the Hurley Walk the Walk competition at the Norva tonight.  I might have a photo or two to post tomorrow. Keep an eye on 17Th Street Surf Shop’s  site for photos from the event.

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At least I got half a day’s worth of shots before the accident…Good news is the Camera appears to be in perfect condition!

Got off about 331 photos before it all went south on me….All of these shots were taken in Raw format so most of the blown Highlights can be recovered. I wanted to get them all up so I didn’t edit them individually.

Click on the image below to see the entire gallery

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Hung out with Mickey ‘2M’ McCarthy on Friday.  Did a session with Raven, Lucas, Brendan and a few others who started to show up…then after lunch headed a bit north to shoot some of the Local guys including, Noah, Jessie Hines and Chris McDonald.

For the most part it was breaking pretty far out and I couldn’t get the camera or my eyes to stay in focus…might need glasses!

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…or at least I was back until the incident on Saturday.

Anywho, Here’s a small Gallery from a late afternoon session at 1st street in Va Beach.

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I finally saw some surf this year, even took a few photos at 1st street on Thursday after work…Hopefully I’ll have those posted later tonight, Right now I’m packing up and Heading south to catch up with 2M for hopefully a much needes surf photo session….

 stay tuned!

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Looks like it’s supposed to be 1-3ft overhead this weekend, with a possible cleaning up late Saturday and Sunday. I’m packing the gear and heading south, hopefully I’ll catch up with Mickey and get a long overdue surf photo session…stay tuned!

 Also, the Admirals won last night, next game is next Friday I will be giving ticket vouchers away this week!  10 home games left!

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I’ll be out of town all week, so I expect there will be some decent surf again. Hopefully next weekend the Outer Banks will have some surf as I’ll be down there for the first time in 2008!

Be back on Friday….

john

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Not only has the team been on fire lately, Now Last season’s favorite Admirals ‘bad boy’ is back….Hopefully he’ll be on the ice on March 7th when the Admirals return to Scope, I have a feeling the crowds are going to grow, and anyone that’s been to a game this season knows that when the crowd is into it, the guys seem to respond with wins…..

Get off your butts and go see some games, I want to take a shot with a full crowd in the background!

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Spent last weekend up in the NYC area and thanks to some good friends I was able to see all three NYC area NHL teams play…First on Saturday the Devils took it to the visiting Islanders ( Like a moron, I didn’t bring my camera, but next time I will) and then on Sunday night the Rangers owned the Florida Panthers 5-0.  Pictures kinda suck, but what can ya do about that now?

Click on the image below to see the shots from the Rangers game at MSG

I’ll be in Las Vegas from the 3rd thru the 7th so I expect there should be some decent surf showing up on Monday and being gone by Saturday.

Admirals are back in town on the 7th, the team has kinda been on fire lately so come check out the action.

john

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Sometimes I just like to spell out the word FEBRUARY because it just doesn’t look right…..

Anywho sports fans, just another mention, the shots from Monday appear overexposed on the website, I hosed something up in the batch conversion process and they are not blown, Pretty much every shot can be printed with the correct exposure and I can crop closer if you need, this new camera has plenty of room to work with cropping. I’ve also got my other camera back so I’m set now…bring on the surf!!!

This weekend I will be in and around NYC, going to see some NHL games and I get to shoot a Ranger’s game at THE GARDEN!!!  

Here’s a shot of the moon from Monday’s session at 1st street

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Feb 18th, Presidents Day….I was off work today for the Holiday and sometime around 11am I was checking the site out and noticed the Surfline links on the left said it was 4-5ft and fair in VB, So I drove down there and pretty much shot the entire day.

Please note…many of these shots appear over exposed, not to worry, they are all fine, I just didn’t have time to convert all the images and get them ready to upload so I batched everything without adjusting.  I’ll fix anything when/if it is ordered, I’m also working with a new camera so I have much more flexibility when it comes to cropping.

Click on the image below to view the entire gallery…(note this image has been editted, it appears washed out in the gallery).

Damn…some people are quick, The gallery already has views and It just finished uploading…. enjoy

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I’m back from West Va. Got home just in time to make it to the Admirals game last night and I’m glad I didn’t miss that.

The Admirals have been on Fire lately scoring standings points in 8 of their last 10 games including 6 wins. Last nights game was pretty one sided with the Ads taking a 4-1 lead into the third period when all hell broke loose and everyone on the ice squared off including the goalies 166 total penalty minutes were handed out!   Same teams play tonight at 7:15pm so come on out and cheer the team on.

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…and I’m stuck in lovely Charleston, West Va until friday night!!!!!

(check out the Surfline surf alerts on the left side of the page)

Looks like I’m gonna miss another swell, might change the site name to WrightCoastHockeyTurtlesLions.com

 john

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I am officially a member of the Virginia Aquarium so I can take pictures of the Turtles whenever I feel like it.

Click on the Turtle image to view the gallery from the Virginia Aquarium… Clickon the Photo of the Lion and two cubs to view images from the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk.

Still working on the Admirals Game photos and ArenaCross at the Hampton Coliseum.

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First, the Admirals have turned it on recently and have points in their last 7 games (meaning they have won 5 games, and taken the other 2 to Overtime and the ever popular shoot-out)  There are home games Tonight and Tomorrow and the Photo link will be published this weekend as soon as I’m done editting all the new stuff.

Second…I realize that I went 1,2,3,4,6 on the photo of the week…my bad. This one should make up for the missing week and is a preview of some shots I’ve taken at the Va Aquarium.  Side note, I might be going on a whale watch the weekend of March 7th with some friends, if anybody wants to go take photos with  me, send an email.

And finally…it looks like this Saturday is going to be in the mid-60’s so I’m probably going to be hitting the zoo in Norfolk in the afternoon before the game so if you like any of the following…Hockey, Turtles,  Animals and Motocross….I should have all the new photos up sometime Sunday.

 thanks,

john

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Here’s the #6 of the 2008 photo of the week posts…anyone wanna take a bet on when I start slacking off and not posting these?

Taken at a recent Admirals game!

 Stay tuned for a new Admirals photo gallery as well as more Sea Turtles from the Va Aquarium and a whole days worth of ArenaCross action from the Hampton Coliseum…..

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The Admirals are at home for 3 games next week, and 3 games the following week… Stay tuned this weekend if you want some free tickets!

I’m also working on an Admirals photo gallery that will be up shortly.

I’ll also be updating the purchase info to reflect a few new sizes that I’ll be offering up to 13×19 as well as more detailed info on purchasing.

Thanks,

john

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Here’s a Hockey photo…Admirals #46 Scalzo scores against Albany.

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In an effort to make the site less boring, I’ve decided  that each week I will post a new image that I will call the ‘Photo of the Week’,  it probably won’t be a surfing photo and it may not actually be a good photo, just something different to keep things interesting, and give me a reason to go out and take some pictures. 

To make up for lost time here are the first 3 photos for 2008….

2008 Photo of the Week #1 Macky Island NWR

2008 Photo of the Week #2 Sunset

2008 Photo of the Week - Week 3 Virginia Aquarium

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I have 4 Vouchers (redeemable for any red level seat ) to the first person who Emails me requesting them.  There are Games this Friday and Saturday night (See below for info on Saturday’s game).  

There are 9 home games (8 on Friday and Saturday nights) in January, come support the Admirals and on Jan 12th help support Breast Cancer research as they “Pink the Rink” Click on the banner below for more info and stay tuned as I have tickets to give away!

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