David Molleck

recent online publications

2011-01-11T13:19:00.000-08:00

Lately I have been shooting some stuff for Surfing Magazine....check it out below

http://www.surfingmagazine.com/news/timmy-curran-wins-katin-pro-am/

http://www.surfingmagazine.com/news/analogs-now-film-premiere-in-costa-mesa/

http://www.surfingmagazine.com/sounds/your-weekend-should-sound-like-this-with-jason-harris/

http://ht.ly/3acSe

Huge thanks to Pete Taras for giving me the opportunity to help out

creek

2010-12-09T21:05:00.000-08:00

Heres a few shots from a freezing cold morning at creek a few weeks ago.

some recent publication

2010-12-05T19:18:00.000-08:00

The newest issue of Ghetto Juice came out a week ago and I found out that I had a couple photos published. I am really stoked, hopefully more to come. I also shot some photos of the Andy Irons paddle out for the Surfing magazine site. check out the link - http://ht.ly/3acSe

this is how you wish you surfed

2010-10-15T18:29:00.000-07:00

p.s. filming with a monopod sucks

Chris Ward is a legend

2010-10-15T08:18:00.000-07:00

leaky housing...

2010-10-12T17:28:00.000-07:00

cut my session short two days in a row. Decided it would be best to send it off to get fixed, the day before this new swell fills in... I shot at T-street early one morning, and I had no idea that it was such a grom fest. Before sunrise there was easily 40 kids out completely destroying the place.

finally some inspiration

2010-09-30T00:10:00.000-07:00

It has been months since I have swam with my housing. Today was a breath of fresh air. Im a little rusty but super amped to swim in some really fun beach break. I met a surfer named Jeremy Carter and shot some photos with him today. While everyone else was frothing on their favorite point breaks up north, I was frothing on one of my favorite beach breaks.

randomness

2010-09-23T17:31:00.000-07:00

I havent shot much this summer, not sure why. I just moved down to Newport Beach, and I think a change of settings will help push me to shoot as much as I can. Anyways, here's a few random photos from one of my favorite waves on a small angry day.

lowers mission

2010-09-15T16:28:00.000-07:00

Heres a few photos from my first treck down to Trestles on a very nasty and gloomy summer day. Me and J.R. met up with Jeff Lukasik and made the journey down. I wasn't quite prepared for the hike down the railroad tracks, almost getting hit by a train and then bushwhacking through a bamboo forest.

art....I guess

2010-06-04T16:42:00.000-07:00

My current and last class at Brooks is advanced photoshop with Chris Orwig. One of our assignments was to create 5 images based on a similar concept and then present them in a unique and non-traditional way. I decided to present my images by glassing them on half of an old broken surfboard. It didn't work as well as I would have liked, but it turned out ok. I ended getting voted in the top 2 presentations for class and got an awesome book as a prize. I never win stuff like this so I was pretty excited.

summer

2010-05-27T20:10:00.000-07:00

This is my good friend Miles. Miles loves the ocean and all of its creatures more than anything.
Check out his work at www.milesosullivan.com or milesosullivan.blogspot.com

I shot these images while free diving in Santa Barbara last summer. I can't wait for the California summer. I know most surfers hate summer because it brings insane crowds to every beach, but I love shallow sand bars and warm water.

early season south swell + the best decision I have made in months

2010-04-28T00:18:00.000-07:00

you wish you could no paddle take off like dane

@#i*% &u^# (not telling but you should already know) has been in the back of my mind the entire winter; call me crazy but I cant wait for summer. I love south swells and orange county. Joking in the car on the way down "Danes gonna be out and you and his filmer are going to battle royal for the beach!" Chris laughed. Sure enough, Danes out, its pumping, his filmer gives me the finger and I'm scared the whole session that he is going to walk up the rocks and kick my ass. I survived, and so did Chris, although I think he has a new appreciation for this beach.

random

2010-04-18T15:54:00.000-07:00

heres a random sequence of chris I thought was rad from a while back at Fairies...photo proof of an epic tale from mugu to come soon

I have vanished

2010-03-25T23:59:00.000-07:00

hopefully I will be back soon. Chris and I have been trying to shoot a little bit of video to make a clip for him.
other than that...this is what I have been up to lately

GoPro

2010-02-16T21:41:00.000-08:00

So I bought this really amazing little device called a GoPro. Im pretty stoked on it. I can finally get some footage of myself surfing. I made a custom mount for the side of my bodyboard and took it out this morning right at dawn with Ryan. The waves were kinda small, but I managed to get a few of the bigger waves of the morning.

The Search

2010-02-16T21:30:00.000-08:00

not the Ripcurl one.... Lately I have been on a quite unsuccessful quest to get a good barrel shot with somebody surfing. I do always end up scoring some pretty nice empty shots though.

Goldfish

2010-02-16T21:18:00.000-08:00

This past saturday I drove up to Cayucos to shoot the annual Volcom Goldfish event. A massive swell rolled in the night before, and at dawn the competitors woke up to 15 foot waves. The event was almost called off but most people said just run it. It was pretty hectic out there. I shot all day and burnt the skin off my face, but I had a good time. I met some really cool people and it was a great opportunity.

Sometimes I hate Santa Barbara..

2010-02-09T22:12:00.000-08:00

and sometimes I love Santa Barbara. After days like this, I come to appreciate the beautiful area that I currently reside. What better way to spend the evening than in the ocean with friends. I honestly have no idea how people live away from the coast.

same old same old

2010-01-31T17:12:00.000-08:00

I made a last minute decision to get out of Santa Barbara and go down to Orange County to hang out with JR and shoot some different waves. Ended up scoring a pretty good wave, which will remain un-named for the sake of me not getting my ass kicked.

swimming with an anchor attached to my arm

2010-01-13T21:28:00.000-08:00

finally took out my 70-200 port at Fairies the other afternoon. It was pretty cool shooting something other than fisheye in the water. Although, it felt like I had a 15 pound anchor attached to me. Met a few cool new people and hope to shoot with them soon.

"take me to the ocean....

2010-01-02T21:14:00.000-08:00

for its where I belong"

jump on the hype train...

2009-12-09T14:57:00.000-08:00

40 year swell!! or not. I hate how every swell gets soo hyped up, and the waves end up being fun, but by no means epic. It was the coldest morning I have ever experienced in Santa Barbara. It was soo cold I didnt even want to shoot. I almost went home, but then Chris called, so we met up at Fairies and shot for a little bit.

oldies.....

2009-12-07T15:15:00.000-08:00

was looking through some old files on my hard drive and found a couple old shots that I like from back when I shot film at Brooks....

trail.....and error

2009-12-04T19:26:00.000-08:00

Went out to mussel shoals with Ryan to mess around with the flash. It was my second time shooting on-camera flash in the water...and didn't get such great results. At least it was a beautiful evening/night. There were some heavy barrels shooting right through the pier. One surfer had to end his night early after breaking his board against one of the pilings. Hopefully next time I can get this flash thing right.

been a while since I've shot in the water...

2009-11-22T12:33:00.001-08:00

Met up with Willy around 5:15 this morning, drove around for 2 hours checking spots, then ended up going back to the first spot we checked, Rincon. Ventured away from the main spot and found some super fun little barrels with nobody around. I was really excited until I looked at my camera, and found out my settings got screwed up and I shot everything 4 stops over exposed! I managed to salvage a few files. Heres what went down this morning....

went to mars the other night

2009-11-19T09:56:00.001-08:00

it was pretty fun, you should go sometime

life

2009-11-15T15:35:00.001-08:00

one of my favorites right now....

2009-11-14T17:34:00.001-08:00

Mikala Jones

the rain stopped......but the wind didnt

2009-11-04T15:59:00.000-08:00

The rain let up for a little bit so I went down to Pipe and Ehukai to see what the surf was doing. Whitecaps everywhere, and howling side/offshores. Only about 10 people out at each spot, and everyone was a pro. Some could surf crappy waves, and some couldn't. Kalani Chapman was killing it, and Nathan Fletcher can boost on any wave.

rainy days ahead

2009-11-02T18:14:00.000-08:00

Kinda bummed I missed a great morning of surf at pipe. Was about 12 feet hawaiian on the sets. I got back just in time to shoot for the last hour of light, which was more like 15 minutes, and then get rained on. But I was content just to sit and watch. There were some bombs rolling in, and the crowd was pretty light, mainly just the local pros. This morning there was clean conditions and pipe still had some size to it. Its looking like rain for the next few days.....

Hawaii

2009-11-01T21:04:00.000-08:00

I've been in Hawaii for a week now and I don't ever want to go back to California. The weather has been amazing, and so has the surf. The first few days it was flat, but for the past 5 days its been a few feet overhead. A little to big for my comfort zone to swim out though. I have been shooting as much as possible. Here's a little sample of what I've shot so far.

finally time to get this blog going....

2009-10-19T17:27:00.000-07:00

Wanted to start my first post with a good session. I went to meet Chris at emma wood to shoot some photos, and stumbled upon an insane session. There was already 4 professional photographers shooting, one video guy, and plenty of pros out when I showed up. Timmy Curran and Wade Goodall were blowing up. They weren't my riders, so I kinda felt like I was poaching. Anyways, here's a few shots I snagged that day.