A short film we recently produced with the team at Gulfstream Surfboards

Really excited, we are busy producing a promotional video for the boys across the road at Gulfstream.

Next step is to get some water footage of the boys at the next “board meeting”

The charts look good and we have a 5AM call time on the beach.

The early bird catches the shot!

Their new website will be going live soon, so be sure to have a look.

Congratulations Nick! Woolcombe’s own waterman is the first person to swim solo from Lundy to Woolacombe and in just six and a half hours! Supported all the way by Steve Newton on a paddle board and Geoff Huelin of Mortehoe Shellfish in his fishing boat.
Thanks to Richard Asquith and Henry Price for the music: www.friend-of-mine.co.uk  Thanks to Dave Jenkins, and the Landmark Trust: www.landmarktrust.org.uk for the stills and to Mat Stillo: www.goto11.co.uk

The local National Trust team put together this lovely afternoon with a speech from Steve Mulberry and Ray Easterbrook, an amazing story teller who immersed us in the history of the point and live music from Jim Jones, oh and not forgetting the sound track from David Kenards sheep.

We worked from 5 in the morning to 10 at night, it was an intense day! thanks so much to all the surfers who took time out and days off of work to be there and to Mat, Jack, Rob, Stu, Gordon, Joel and Steve our camera men and production team who worked so hard on the day. Thanks also to Parkins estates and Woolacombe Parish Council for their support.”

Best described as a ‘scenic surf movie’ the film is a portrait of Woolacombe bay on that day, the surfing, beach life and surrounding scenery.

This promo soundtrack and the final score is the work of Peter Bruntnell who lives up the road. “One of England’s best kept musical secrets”. says Rolling Stone! How excited are we to be working with him and his friends! The music will be recorded in one day and we will be there to film it.

Post production is under way and the DVD will be available spring 2010

For a full credits and production stills visit: the ONEDAY micro site

Its that time allready, another splendid weekend for the girls and what fun they had. Pro surfer Keala Kennely was there to pass on her wisdom and play a set. Sound track thanks to local band Zamba who know how to party!

Just one evening from a week of stunning sunsets!

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Text for the Billabong Girls Days 2008 to go here

The sun did shine sometimes on some days this August & the unsettled weather provided a spectacular show of cloud formations.

I’m going to use these cloud studies as an excuse to learn more about cloud formations, their names and what they mean in terms of weather prediction.

Some of my photos on a crisp winter afternoon. There was frost on the dunes that morning and some of the north facing slopes remained white and sparkly until the following day.

‘Valley of the Wolves’ derives from the ancient meaning of the place name Woolacombe. As winter approaches, all sorts of things change. The chip shop has closed and its getting dark and cold – what else could we do?

It’s often those that might be considered long in the tooth that reveal their true nature. Watch this one evolve over the next couple of years!

The Woolacombe Surf Lifesaving Club do great work with lots of young people and have allowed us to film them for ONEDAY.

Jackie & Roger are inspirational organic farmers who sell direct to the public and you can stay on their farm.

they love what we do and the feeling is mutual!

Thanks to Geoff and his family for letting me film them for my video journals

apologies for any content on this website for one of the UK’s oldest & largest surf clubs

Trevor is my cultural fast track back to my youth in the 70′s he has an encyclopedic knowledge of music and films.

Buckie is my unofficial and probably reluctant business mentor and one day I will film him in a deep skating bowl with his shirt off to return the favour.

Dig is the proprietor of one of the last real surf shops, give him a visit to see what I mean. Oh yer and he is also bit of an action man come adrenalin junkie and has taken me up in his helicopter check out the video from this trip.

Thanks to David for being a super shepherd

Steve is featured in ONEDAY living the life in Woolacombe & its all his fault that I live 200 yrds from the beach. Thanks Steve!

Always up for a project, the men at Gulf Stream are a cultural beacon shining bright in North Devon. They don’t just make pieces of art that you can ride waves with, they do other stuff too, pop into their gentleman’s outfitters in Braunton, it’s full of girls stuff.

It only takes a bit of sun, no wind, clear water and a chest high wave to transport me to summers past. This weeks offering is from the wavedreamer archives, all the things I ache for at this time of year. Thanks to Skelly, Sandra, Steve Altram and of course Steve PP who is a master of beach and Landscape painting parties!

Thanks again to Doug for the lovely summery ‘yet to be titled’ track.

Mat is a superlative designer, surfer, comedian & all-round magnificent human being. Calling on his abundance of talent & the impressive resources of his design agency, goto11, Mat created this stunning wavedreamer website. And yes, he wrote his own entry for this page…