the now by ray collins

amazing surf photography... watch it and get inspired!

surfing became a really big part of my life. it is where i find calm and get inspiration. when i first moved back to california it was around 2009. the economy was tricky and finding a job was... quite difficult and my mind was overwhelmed. a friend of mine asked if i wanted to try surfing, try something new. we both went on craigslist, both completely fresh to surfing and bought the thinnest and shortest surfboards we could find. oh man... it didn't take us very long to realize we really had no idea what we were doing but thats how it all started. it inspired me both physically and mentally. 

here is an amazing short video by ray collins. a pretty well known surf photographer. it is just amazing!

The coal-miner turned photographer is bringing a new angle to oceanic imagery The coal-mining town of Bulli, south of Sydney, is not regarded as a repository of high art, nor as a vibrant and pulsing beehive of life and color, and yet there was Ray Collins. Seven years ago the idea of his new photography book, Found at Sea, would have seemed ludicrous to him; he was still working a mile down in the mines and hadn’t shot a single frame. Collins crawled out of the mines after blowing out a knee—“No shock absorbers left,” he says—and bought a camera with the payout. In the short years since, Collins has transitioned from subterranean to submarine and become arguably the most inventive water photographer in Australia.