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I just checked the site's stats and www.sandonpointphotos has had over 3 million hits so far in the first 5 months of 2009, with around 5,500 unique or different visitors. The first figure is flattering but also somewhat misleading as every time someone goes to a new image it is counted as a hit. Given that, it is nonetheless encouraging to see so many people interested enough to come here and have a look around the site. Your support is genuinely appreciated.

If you can identify anyone on this home page then please drop me an email and I can update it. I aim to credit the surfer in any image on this page if at all possible and I don't know everyone's name.

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I wish everyone could see the quality of my full size images as I see them on my 24 inch iMac. The images on this site are highly compressed and in jpg format. That format always makes the dark sections of any image, like wetsuits especially, extremely dark. My original images are all in RAW format. This RAW format is the standard requirement for surfing mag contributions and allows me to see and edit any image in many powerful ways to bring out the best. It really is chalk and cheese when comparing jpg and RAW formats. I know the people who come over and buy their images are blown away when they see them in full resolution on my computer. My point here is, don't think the full size images are anything like the small compressd ones you see on this site. I have even been able to tell the time on a surfers watch when the light is good. You are always welcome to check a few out. Just email. Alternatively just click HERE to go to page with an example, though still highly compressed.

Saturday 4th July. A bit of swell around for the comp between SPB and Norah Head. Nice light and moderate offshore winds.

Wednesday 1st July. Its Tax Time but at least there were a few waves to help put off the drudgery of filling in tax returns. Tax Refunds are always useful to fund new surfboards. I checked out the northern breaks early and ended up back at the Point late morning to noon and went back down late afternoon. There are 12 albums up on the site. There are also a couple of albums of Line Up shots from the various breaks I visited during the day plus a nice sunrise.

Thursday 25th. Most were surprised that there was still some ENE swell around. Everywhere looked promising early. I spent and hour at Macauleys and then had other committments. The images are up on the site.

Wednesday 24th. Still some ENE swell up to 4 and even 5 foot on the biggest sets. Thirroul looked a lot like North Narrabeen with some great deep pits and some great surfing to go with them. I took a lot of images and they are all up on the site. I then went back down in the afternoon when the sun was out. It was a foot smaller but more hollow and faster. Josh Watt was still there getting his 23rd barrel. All images are now on the site.

Tuesday 23rd. A nice ENE swell and high tide in the morning meant Headies had a few barrels. Lots of boogie boarders getting deep. I did SMS a few surfers in an attempt to get some down there. I also went to Sandon at noon and late in the afternoon.

Sunday 21st. SPB Pointscore was held in extremely challenging sucky waves at the Reef. With 3 broken boards and a few legropes paying the price, it was an interesting day. There was a great turn out with 93 competitors on the day. Jake Ended up winning the Open, Johnno won the over 40's and Leroy won the under 16's. I know everyone was happy to see Ant win the brand new single fin surfboard in the raffle. There is a 24 image summary in the Pick of the Pics.

Wednesday 17th. Still some swell around today. I went down for an early session and struggled with the light. Every now and then the sun came out so I went back down in between rain squalls in the late morning and mid afternoon.

Tuesday 16th. The swell was picking up all day. Late in the afternoon the sun came out so I rushed down and I managed to get a few frames in the last of the excellent light, at around 4.00 pm. Looks good for tomorrow morning.

The Point. Saturday afternoon.

Drew Parkinson. The Point. Saturday Afternoon.

Skiing Photos. A lot of people have asked about my eldest son Woodie and are keen to see some images of his exploits in Europe. I have created a 4th page in the Images to Dream of section with a selection of his better shots. Click here to go straight to that page or click on page 4 above.

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NOTICE.

I have a web hosting package that gives me 5 gig of storage. I am now at that limit. As such, I have deleted images from days when the surf was not overly good and all the images that have been on the site for over a year. If you are slowly going through my image library looking for images of yourself then please do it in the near future. At present, all images from the last year are still on the site. I am also only going to keep video clips up on the site for a few months. Running a site like this costs money and I can't justify the added expense of keeping my entire image and video clip library on the site. I would suggest that if you appreciate the service I provide and have yet buy any images yet, please consider buying them in the near future. That will help support me and this site and ensure the site can be as comprehensive as possible. I enjoy providing this service but I do need to cover costs. If you have never seen one of my images at full resolution then you will be amazed. They are well worth having. I am of course keeping all my original images so even if the older ones have been taken off the site, they are are still stored in my image library and I can easily access them, as long as I know an image number.

Images from June and July 2008 will be taken off the site next week.

Sample Images from the last few days.

Click on an image to go straight to that 24 image album.

The Point. Saturday Afternoon.

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