Thomas Fowler Photography

Bones mended

Sent my camera to nikon to replace the water damaged pins, all is running smoothly now.

Hopefully get off my arse and take some photos this weekend.

Flooded my housing today, unbelieveably my camera is 99% okay, besides it wont read memory cards, reallllly pissed off as i was half way out and somhow water creeped in. Other than that had a realllly fun surf on the beaches with some mates.

Will update when camera is fixed :)

Cant sleep

Just cleaned my rig, found a photo i sorta liked and is the type of photo i'd really like to master

METALLICA

Tickets go on sale tommmrow morning, going to trip it down to WOW and try my luck with some friends

so amped

Goodnight blog

And David

Last week at hippies

Going to do something with my blog tonight, have a bit of time on one hand

Waves To Be Had

Signs of the winter swells are already starting to show, and have done over the last couple of weeks

And an oldy, that nato thought was worth posting so he edited

A day off work.

On thursday I took the day off work hoping to shoot some fun little waves down in Caloundra

Me and max surfed carties pretty fun, and we were joined by Barret, Shauny and Beau

Im absolutely devastated in the outcome of my shots, there was zinc smudged on my port and it wasn't coming off at all, so droplets were sweating the port like a pedophile at a wiggles concert. Alot of the shots had real good composition etc, it was just the droplets that ruined it for me and As i was coming in, the tie on my leash to my housing decided to just break, lost my camera underwater for about a minute, this is the first time it's happened to me as you can imagine i was absolutely freaking out, then it popped up, right in front of the finger rock with not a scratch so i was pretty thankful.

Anyway, today the waves are turd, again, and they probably will be next week, and maybe even the week after. So i'm using all this rain and wind as an advantage to get some stuff done at home.

Heres a couple of shots i managed to obtain that weren't so bad in the way of seedy water droplets.

Empty (would have ruined the photo trying to rotate this one, so I have left it as is, maybe for a bit of exercise in this vile weather you can turn your head a little)

Barrat

Shauny

Morning Swim

Wasn't alot of wind around today, nice blue skies and i decided to go for a swim out the front.

Didn't get a lot of shots, here are a couple i sorta liked

Okay, I've been extremely lazy....

In the past month or two i've seen some pretty average surf, heard of 10 foot swells, but then again

I live on the Sunshine Coast, so of course this is pretty much unheard of these days. In the time between my last blog and now i've turned 18, bought a new car, picked up a job as a labourer and taken very minimal photos and have been fairly pissed most of my weekends.

Heres a little gathering of snaps I finally looked at this morning and decided to throw on here.

Enos, my favourite home wave was absolutely packed by people from all over the coast on the last swell we had. There were many fights, many skis and a lot of kooks. When these swells turn up it sort of puts me off even being around my local altogether.

Unknown

Nick Rubesaame

Having some time off has given me the opportunity to spend my time with some good mates.

Barret is fat

Max And Rick V.s Shellys

Nest Apprentice

Noosa

The coast has a little bit of swell at the moment from a formed cyclone hanging off the east coast of Australia.

Went for a swim at decker this morning, only got one shot that i thought was worth keeping, didn't particularly like it enough to blog but I thought i would anyway seen as I haven'dated in like a month. Dylon Parr got some sick shots at the bar today which I am looking forward to seeing on the big screen.

A Small Sheet

Rain

Went into the city today to get my sensor cleaned, was quite surprising as to how dirty it was, and what a good job that the team at Anderson's Camera Repairs do. Highly recommend for any Nikon users, for repairs or sensor cleaning, this is definetly the place in Queensland to go, saves money sending it to Nikon Headquarters and getting them to do it, and have your camera for a week where as Anderson's have the job done in around 2 and a half hours. Other than that expected sunny skies, once again rain was off putting for photos, although did enjoy watching commodores underwater in the flash flooding out of the city. Cruised on home back to Noosa to discover how silly I am being here when i could quite easily be in Hawaii for the IBA Turbo comp at Pipeline, am thinking about departing in the next few days, we will see what happens. Other than all the chit chat going to be booking flights for Bali this week, pretty stoked.

It will be good to leave the country and get away from this 1-2 foot windswell madness.

Jungle Fever

Got deep down under the great diving range yesterday with Nathan Tyack, and a couple of other mates. All in all it was a boring day getting blood tested by mosquitos and struggling to get back before the sun went down. Me and my mate David got blown up at by our girlfriends for being late to go on little valentines dates, so our already crap day was made even worse. Was pretty hard shooting under such rushed conditions

Heres a couple of snaps i took

Little Cove

A bit of swell around

Went down to little cove to find a pretty glassy little shore break

Downside was obviously the rain and wind that has been hanging around the last few days.

Hopefully Tomorrow will get some better shots of some surfing

For now

Waiting.

Waiting and only hoping for some waves, now that i've finished school i can already see some pretty boring days ahead of me until I find what I want to pursue as a career for the rest of my life. At the moment i'm basically sitting, driving around the coast bored as hell and on an extremely tight budget. Tomorow I will post some photos that I took from last year that were not posted at all.

Back In Action

Thanks to my new Imac i7

Haven't had a working computer in quite some time, in the mean time have I have been taking pretty minimal photos.

Upon purchasing the new beast i've turned a new leaf

No more laziness

Blogging comes before Girls

Taking camera on every drive to check the waves - Surf or not

Last weekend went on a little camping trip to Ballina, charts were showing earlier in the week some good swell.

Myself, Photographer Nathan Tyack, Max Foerstor and Lloyd arrived to nothing but glassy ripples. Although we had one average day at south wall, most of our time was spoent fondling with local women and eating.

Max has been surfing really well lately and has excelled highly in the sport within the last 3 months even picking up a sponsor from Sunshine Coast Inverted. There will without a doubt be much more from max to come in the new year.

Here are a few shots from our weekend down the coast.

Its Been Really Long..

To long since i've posted

I have become extremely lazy in this burning heat, but then again the swell has decided to pick up at the worst of times for me.

My housing has been out of action for the last month, in the mean time i've been having a lot of fun surfing and graduating school.

Also purchased some new gear. An 80-400mm Nikkor plus a new 27 inch quad core iMac which i should recieve pretty soon.

Hopefully have some pictures up in the next week.

Everyone have a good christmas and a happy new year

- Tom

City Lights

Went to the city with some mates, ended up being a rainy night and little to offer on the shooting perspective.

The charts are showing an increase of swell over the current week, hopefully bringing good waves, good times and good shots on the Sunshine Coast

While im at it
Take a gander at the teaser for "Grow Up"
Jake and production man Chris White
Cannot wait till the premier dates are released, looks like a good old laugh

Grow Up bodyboard preview from jake stone on Vimeo.

Relief

Washed the dust off my housing this morning with an early wake up to 2 foot clean beachies
Only shot a few photos before venturing to school
Also tried some new editing stuff, so that explains for the orangy colours
It's been really overdue for swells on the Sunshine Coast in the past two months

But crystal clear days like this keep hopes up for pristine weather and swell.

Max

Empty

Lawrie

Paradise

Spent an hour of my afternoon shooting at the cove, the lens im using is a sigma 70-300mm
its in its best words a crap tool. Going to upgrade to a bigger and better optical quality lense when i come into some money.
So i really did not capture anything amazing
Heres one shot i kind of liked

Nathan Tyack