Indonesia Travels

Did a really cool trip to a island in Indonesia with a friend of mine recently. A lot of locals still live in traditional huts, very little to no money and totally self sufficient. Wealth is measured by how many buffalo and horses you have. Here's some photo's of some of the landscape and a few people locals I met. Thanks for a great trip Christian.

RIP Andy

Sad News that Andy irons past away earlier this week, gone but not forgotten mate. Andy will go down in history as one of the greats in surfing. The photo of Andy above is from last year when he came to the desert.

Summer days

I shot this on the long drive north a week ago, the clouds looked amazing and it was a really hot summery day.

Spinning Vortex

It was a Awesome Day today in the water, light offshore and really warm. I took some time to shoot some underwater photo's at a little secret break. Have a close look at the tubes of air being pushed through the water as the lip penetrates. I've only noticed this at heavier waves were the lip pitches really hard, these tubes of water are actually spinning really fast.

Web Store is Live!

The Bauer Photo web store is open... We will be posting some exciting new products up in the coming weeks. www.bauerphoto.com.au

Blue Water Beachies

Fun session Yesterday, nice to see some beautiful clean water and light offshores...

The good old film days.

Ah film.......those were the good old days.

Club Of Waves

Hey everyone check out the Club Of Waves web site, it's been relaunched bigger and better..

Club Of Waves http://www.clubofthewaves.com/

The Surf Culture Blog http://surfingartculture.blogspot.com/

My photographer profile http://www.clubofthewaves.com/surf-photographer/scott-bauer.php

Freediving

This is a pretty awesome clip, they say it's on one breath hold...if it is or isn't it's still amazing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQITWbAaDx0&feature=related

6 millions views! crazy...

Boodjidup Slab

Dino Adrian on a sand drainer, one of my favorite places to shoot..

The Right

Alex Cater on a nice size wave before our ski broke down

Backhand Skills

Mr Cortney Brown has honed some good backhand skills in hollow lefts. If you get a chance to get your hands on the latest Surfers Journal you can read about the brothers Brown, Kerby and Cortney's crazy tow antics.

Wavelength Cover

Recent cover of Fergal Smith on Wavelength magazine

Canon V Nikon

I gotta laugh with all this Canon Versus Nikon, your a Nikon man or Canon!. I think there both amazing... How good is the Canon 7D and 5D mark II to film with, the footage looks amazing. The new Nikon FX bodies, so good in low light...

Can't Have Everything

Bit of a mission last few days to try and score this left slab, got there finally in the morning and had it for about 45 minutes before the wind turned onshore, so shattered.. Basically as soon as i hit the water haha, Kit Raynor got one good one and it was all over...

Blue Tongue

I spotted this little guy coming back from Kalbarri, he was on the side of the road and nearly got squashed but a truck... Didn't stop him trying to have a go at the truck on the way past... crazy!.

Flaring

This wave is really interesting, love the detail in the lip... Recently printed this AO size and framed for a client and it came up amazing.

Fun Little slab

Had a fun shooting session with Ry Craike, Kerby & Cortney Brown last week at a secret slabby left. So good to see some decent waves again, fingers crossed for some more days soon.

Check out the browns bothers web site http://thebrownbrothers.com/

Riptide Cover

Latest Cover of Riptide of Mitch Rawlins on the stands this week.

Little Black Wheels

A promo clip for Little Black Wheels, a film by Mick Waters.... Really cool flick, gets back to the roots of surfing and travel. click on the little black wheels icon to see the trailer.

www.clubofwaves.com

Check out this really cool web site called The Club Of Waves, full of surfing, surf art and culture. This is my photographers profile www.clubofthewaves.com/Scott Bauer

Pie man and the English Channel

My house mate is swimming the English channel raising money for the stroke foundation, check out his web site and help out by making a donation. www.stroke4stroke.com.au

Desert dreaming

Easily the best stars I've ever seen here in the desert, never get bored of it

Respect Our Oceans

I've really noticed the amount of boats heading north this year in WA and the amount of people fishing really hard, just because people are on holidays there's not need to kill the pig. Fisheries recently caught a guy with 70kg of fillet and this is a department that are totally under maned, imagine what they don't see. I recently got one fish that fed me for a month, I went diving almost everyday I could and I didn't have to go spear loads of fish because I didn't need to.

Were lucky here in WA we still have some fish left, respect our ocean and fish for the future and only taking what you need : )

Last few days diving

Been some beautiful weather last few days, a couple friends came up from down south and we jumped in on the outer reefs but the visibility was pretty bad. First dive we had a tiger shark hanging about, we opted out chumming for Mackerel. Believe me it's not much fun having big sharks hassling you when you can't see much.. We headed to the inshore reefs...Here's a little clip I nocked up really quick, check out the sharks towards the end of the clip feeding off a bait ball.

Lino

Another cool clip to check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkF6hLmZ3qs&feature=player_embedded#!
This guy has some serious time on his hands, well made...

Tarp Pits

Check this clip out, classic...

http://vimeo.com/13475522

Irish crazy Fergal Smith

A photo from last Tuesday of Irish crazy fergal Smith, this kid charges! check out his blog http://fergalsmith.blogspot.com/

The Collective

Check out the Collective web site by Tassie photog Stuey Gibson, he recently posted up some of my photo's http://www.thecollective.net.au/scotty-bauer/

Time for diving : )

Swells been huge but now it's almost flat, time for diving. here's a photo of my first mackerel speared this season...not bad at 18kg, here's hoping I can hit something a lot bigger next few days?.

Latest Cover The Surfers path

The Latest Cover of The Surfers Path I shot of Dean Bowen, I was real stoked on this shot so it's a real treat to score a cover from it.

Temptress

Temptress girl Yulia in the new issue of WAVES, I photographed Yulia for the new Gypsea Swimwear range due out this summer. The brand is based on my imagery and is probably one of the most unique swimwear brands to hit this summer. All feedback so far has been amazing and were expecting great things.

Desert Firing

The Swell has been pumping of late up north, long time coming with a slow start to the season... The first swell we had last Saturday is as big as I've seen it for a long time with 10-12 foot sets, swimming was a test but it paid off.. The following Tuesday was firing, I think I swam 6-7 hours because I could bare going in the waves were so good.

A new Project I've been working on with Emma Brereton, it's called Gypsea Swimwear. I designed and photographed the artwork for this piece, I based it on the Red Bluff. This piece is made from a amazing fabric we imported from Italy.

Keep a eye on the new web site www.gypsea.com.au it will be going live in the next week.

Mouse Spider

I found this crazy little critter walking around at home, the size of the fangs is out of control.

The Hole

This is what it's all about

Super Slow Motion HD

Check this out, Bali Strickland using a huge HD camera in the surf.... This camera is probably worth $200'0000 and takes the most amazing footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BOhDaJH0m4&feature=related

Deep

Young lockie back on the foam ball on a fun little nugget, you can see the red of the hill through the lip.

Golden light

Some interesting light early morning in the desert

Lobsters

Couple lobsters diving with my mate Abe in the desert, wedge yourself in the ledge and go hard till your lungs bust....good training for those big hold downs.

Old School

Big old Archy hack I shot at Off The Wall in Hawaii, my first trip to Hawaii 8 years ago the high lite was shooting Archy and Pancho at OTW, some of the best hacks in the business.

Andy dicing with the right

Andy Irons in the Desert that ran in Surfing Life Magazine as a double page, a earlier shot of the same wave ran on the cover of Surf Europe.

Desert May 27th

I've been mounting my GoPro on top of my housing while I've been shooting, pretty cool to play back the whole session and look at the photo's... Here's a little clip I made up really quick.

Welcome Home

Just got back to the beautiful desert country, great waves, good friends, fresh produce... yeah it's good to be home.