The Dale - 1000 Words, Part 2

( part 1 – http://www.swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=302322 )

the tribute to Dale Solomonson back in dec. included…

(crass commercialism – joel mayer)

mr mellor

run’s quiver

custom rack

custom carry

run’s crowd pleaser

fin set-up

carl olsen answers questions about his edge board & checks out spoons

l-r from carl: james sowell, jon bailiff, steve neal, mark miller, mow, run, lance smith

one combination

why greenough calls udt’s blanks

the flextail edge board, another mesmerizing solomonson production

MOW - thanks for posting that. seems like it’s been ages since there’d been a good post on flex stuff ( mats, flxspoons, hulls )

who’s house?

Run’s house!

wow, those quiver shots are great!

i wish mine was that diverse

Best “all-inclusive” quiver and best set of pics I’ve seen on any forum. Thanks for posting those. Eye candy for a looooong time.

Yes , I second that! I really ,really like where Run’s running…

we’re not worthy!

great pics.

listen closly to this fly on the wall.

mmmmmm way cool

if’n only I was one o’ them thet was there

the memories would have greater

depth of field.

but two dimensional perspective

narrows and yet defines the

moment all the better.

formal discourse

beyond the 1000 words per picture

would overwhelm a simple fly.

thanx fer da pix

pax humana

…ambrose…

great!—another dose of " you shoulda been there" OK!, i’ll be there this year!!!

Travis (am_glass) into an incredible mat scenario

having had his way

back for more on a different medium

Dr S will remember

how hard we tried to believe this guy

while watching the Travis show below

it’s all good

mark miller on the left just in with run’s blue spoon

the great jon manss on the far right

frank reveals channel flex secrets

with peter (pcinsc) incredulous in back

who knows what geoff just said

more stoke from scott and jamie

so dr s & peter are on it

of course he made it

yo joel

Crassic Cypless Flaming of mat silloette

in photo two.Kudos.

mat photo book

dream fodder.

…ambrose…

swell document

of a good time had by all

ah the great jon manss, i won’t forget how him and his wife brought over all that killer chicken and salad for a bunch of bum surf strangers like ourselves, thanks again man if youre out there

also i think i ate crap on that last one, but sometimes u can make similar sitchooations…

also i remember mark gnome surfin the hell out of that blue piece o crap and gettin a nice little barrel while shootin by the lukas war hero haha i was sittin on a rock and i remember hearin the hoot

as mixed as i am on the ethics of photos i’d be full o crap if i said i didnt enjoy seeing them thanks and take care all

yeah, big props to joel for the photos.

he stood for hours, his only comfort being those dhjarm blacks. he never left our side but he couldn’t split in two. one morning i talked him into going south. another group went north. we hit fog, they scored big clean empty sunny blue walls… right dudley?

i’ll try to post every 24 hrs till we run out–fodder for the next dale. i hope the real dale is looking over our shoulder.

and we’ve got the video to prove it. i just wish i had been quick enough to get the giant elephant seal on film playing around just inside the main lineup…ringing the early morning breakfast bell. sometimes it’s good to be on the cliffside when you’re part of the group that went “north” on this section of California coast. My excuse was that Skywalker and I surfed a fun right for a few hours in the middle of the night, so i was “tired” and shot moving pictures instead of getting wet.

ah memories…

Jaime,

Glad to see you put that night session to good use. I pulled the “night surfing made me tired” card as an excuse for eating Joel’s pre-made baked potato the next morning. Ahh… the memories… hehe

duds, i think it was the shadows moving underwater in the moonlight that freaked you out for the morning session.

lance

soul

and kendog

he & james rotated on this camera

trademark greenough skim

motivator!

north meets south in switchbacks – ken & jdbailiff

sweet

duds, the other guy’s you

ken, maybe one more…

james, possibly lighting something up

jamie & jon, all done

yeah, one more

steve in the foreground

I’ll never forget walking into the kitchen at 6am to Luke getting into a loaded baked potato, and run having a light breakfast of green tea and buffalo wings. Classicly Delicious

"They shall beat their swords into plowshares

and the lion will lie down with the lamb"

caveman – many imitations, only one original

he was very supportive of the dale

he and his wife karri got us box seats at Rockview–the sandbox

she shot footage that should be in the dvd

here he is in various stages of Rocketry

this is the one dudley’s been waiting for

he says i beat up on this little girl

the foto clearly shows who the real victim was

the experience left me emotionally scarred

jdbailiff, moments of mat solitude

HAHA… I had almost forgotten about that poor pink-boarded girl. Thanks for the reminder. Look forward to seeing the next 4 sets of sequence shots. Remember kids: the addiction to flex can be harmful to everyone around you.

don’t worry, seawalk, i took care of it on the beach. you don’t have to be afraid to go out in the water anymore.

now here’s the one dudley doesn’t want anybody to see

didn’t realize this was a whole new set of pics, some great shots there - I love the quiver shots at the start of the thread. Thanks!