Summer has been pretty crazy for me so far with photographing weddings, family events and a bit of traveling. I just got home from Southern California after spending the last two and a half weeks surfing and working at camps to teach kids how to surf. Here are a few pictures I snapped on an overcast evening at Trestles Beach on Camp Pendleton Marine Base.
I've been away for quite a while now so I think I should make up for lost time. On my most recent trip to California, I was able to make the trek to Skid Row in Los Angeles to help feed some homeless people. The organization that we were helping out noticed that I had my camera and asked if I could just take photos and videos all day. I jumped at the opportunity and ended up with some cool shots. These are all unedited so they aren't perfect but this is just a glimpse at some of the interesting people I was able to meet. I butchered an attempt at talking American politics with one guy, another one told me to go to Atlanta for boiled peanuts and Bud Light at a baseball game and my man Anthony Witherspoon (guy on the left in the third picture down) told me I would with the Pulitzer Prize for making a book about his story (which he never told me...). Give me a holla in the comments section!
I am so hyped for a couple of my buddies from Calgary (Levi Switzer and Colin Tubb), who are putting together this skate trip. They are going to be taking a bus full of 55 youth down through LA and into Mexico. They'll be hitting up a few key skate spots, but also working with an initiative called 'Homes of Hope' through an organization called YWAM.
Depending on how much money they can raise before they leave, they will be building houses for people in Mexico who can't afford their own.
