Posted on April 8th, 2012 in inkydeep by inkydeep
Fathoms Left to Fall – a short film by Chris McClean of huge surf shot during March 2012 at Mullaghmore Head, County Sligo, Ireland. Uploaded to Vimeo 5 April 2012.
Beautifully shot, dark and menacing, accompanied with a sombre song reflecting the heavy cold water waves.
From the Northcore Vimeo site;
“The yin and yang of a trip. The highs and the lows. The epic rides and the epic falls. Surfing isn’t a easy game to get right, once in a lifetime 50 ft faces followed by a endless search for shelter. Tides reveal dry reefs, squalls break promises. Rain dampens enthusiasm, talk of hidden secrets abound but the wind in it’s infinite wisdom keeps them just that, secret. There’s no urgency yesterday’s euthoria still burns. Another trip another day. No fathoms left to fall.”
A Northcore Film
Directed by Chris McClean
Director of Photography Mark Waters
Edited by Mark Waters
Produced by Gabe Davies
Executive Producer – Matt Strathern
Music – Ben Howard – Depth over Distance
Surfers – Gabe Davies, Richie Fitzgerald, Fergal Smith, Tom Lowe, Ollie O’Flaherty, Eric Rebiere, Paul O’Kane, Neil Britton, Tom Butler, Sebastian Steudtner, Andrew Cotton, Al Mennie”
Posted on March 10th, 2012 in inkydeep by inkydeep
A couple of photographs from last Saturday taken with my iPhone 3GS. Sometimes it is difficult to see the results of the photo just taken, so I was quite pleased with these once I could see them on a computer screen.
Newquay Bay early Saturday morning 3 March 2012.
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Posted on March 4th, 2012 in inkydeep by inkydeep
Uncommon Ideals is simply a stunning and breathtaking piece of work; an inspired combination of images and music, with Dan Crockett’s poem read by Jeff Hordley adding gravitas.
Uncommon Ideals was selected as the winner of the 2011 Shorties award at last years London Surf Film Festival.
The first breath is a beauty;
Whispering of the north like a kiss
Gilded hammer come tapping
Licking the dun dunes
Sweeping the tawny sea
A chill fist come rapping
At the doors of you,
of me
Bay burn the first
Runners of the dawn train
Ripples, creeping in beneath castles
Under dismantled factories
Between oak groins tar black
Onto reefs of hell
And fain the eyes that track
This first building of
the swell
A copper peak like running snuff
Bang, bang, bang
From the north she pours
Stirring the remaining cod
Sister wind swung south
Waking the Farne-bound seals
And met by land she roars
Dipped in sepia,
flayed bister
Delight for uncommon ideals
Used by permission of Dan Crockett – http://www.danielcrockett.co.uk/. From Dan’s website on the poem Uncommon Ideals; “A poem I wrote was used to frame Uncommon Ideals, a short film about surfing in the North Sea. It ended up going viral with 85,000 views on Vimeo. The text of the poem… it’s about craving things everyone else would think were mad.”
Uncommon Ideals a film by Chris McClean and Mark Waters. Released 25 August 2011.
The Doggerland Chronicles – http://thedoggerlandchronicles.blogspot.com/
Posted on October 30th, 2011 in inkydeep by inkydeep
On Wednesday we tweeted about the big surf being forecast for the weekend.
The swell duly arrived on Saturday and then built over the weekend. Having not been able to watch previous tow in sessions at the Cribbar reef, it was a joy to spend some time this afternoon watching the tow in teams do their stuff. At the time the photographs below were taken, magicseaweed.com had forecast 13’ waves at 13 seconds with the breaking wave estimated at 15’ double overhead.
Mahalo to the tow teams.
Posted on January 19th, 2011 in inkydeep by inkydeep
I love short surf films like Wind + Rain, I guess it is because it captures a surfing experience I can relate to… waves that I could see myself dropping into, cold water, too much neoprene and grey skies. Well shot and with a good piece of backing music completes the surf film package.
Wind + Rain by Peter Devries, released 18 January 2011. http://vimeo.com/user530350
Filmed by Jeremy Koreski – http://www.jeremykoreski.com/
