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Mr Bruce Usher, from Surfing World Magazine in the golden era of surfing to modern day book projects, portrait photography… Bruce continues to chase the light and capture unique photographs.

Shane Martin sent us this photo…he did the artwork on these Lennox Head creations.

TIMBER goodness from ‘grown’ surfboards.

click the photo to go to the website.

thanks Shane,

70’s GOODTIME decal by Shane Martin. Shane is a Byron Bay area local these days and a fine longboarder. Goodtime was founded by Brian ‘fury’ Austin (r.i.p) and today is run by his sister and based in Brisbane. Michael Peterson shaped a few boards for Goodtime and Billy Grant churned out hundreds of nice boards.

“Well I haven’t seen that logo for such a long time. It was one of the final things I designed before turning to Photography as a career. I got the idea from a photo a mate took of me silhouetted by the sunrise at Burleigh Cove. I changed up the foliage to palms instead of Pandanus, as I found Palm fronds more of a challenge to draw, added the good karma of a pair of Dolphins, and thought it would all look great dripping in the Gold of the beautiful sunrise.” Shane Martin 2009

von weirdo scores a quiver of 70’s stoke

Droog sells out

Born and breed on the Sunshine Coast beaches of Queenland, Australia, Josh starting surfing at a young age following in the footsteps of his father and older brother. Inspired by the soul arching, laid-back, individual style of the surfing subculture and its offshoots the Brisbane-based graphic artist, works primarily in drawing but likes to maintain a significant multiple-medium practice. He likes to draw, paint and animate working with pens, ink, acrylic, watercolours and any kind of found objects to create interesting visual compositions. He graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Animation in 2003 and currently works as a graphic designer/pre-press operator by day and freelance illustrator/animator by night. Long or short, fat or thin, one, two, three or none, a bit of Morning of the Earth and some reggae makes Josh’s world go round.

Contact:
joshrufford@hotmail.com

another shot of the Greenough shape that recently sold for $20, 000 US in Hawaii.

Note:  the swallow tail with canvas overlay, this gave the board independent suspension in the tail. Most designers still do not understand Greenough’s three plan shapes and variable rocker, or even the fins he was using. The fins George was using in his edge boards are entirely different from the ‘Greenough fins’ you see in the shops.

(That is von weirdo holding the board)

lauren hill surfing photo by Lauren Hill

another shot of the $20, 000 surfboard at the Hawaiian auction. Shaped by Greenough for Chris Brock. That is DIck Hoole holding the surfboard. Photo by dvw