Operation New York

Waccatee Zoo

2012-01-17T16:42:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, myself and two friends decided to go to the zoo. Here is a photo I captured. If you click on the image, it will appear larger.

- JC Beierle

Casey Kluesener Kite Boarding

2011-12-15T15:58:00.000-08:00

Casey Kluesener is a good friend of mine. He is also excellent at any sport involved with the water. We heard that the wind was going to be perfect for kite boarding today so we took his boat to the Amityville Cut in the Great South Bay. It was very cloudy but the wind was perfect. Here are the photos we got.

-JC Beierle

South Carolina Sunset

2011-11-30T14:36:00.000-08:00

What do you think?

- JC Beierle

Gobble Gobble

2011-11-24T19:30:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We got lucky today with beautiful weather and some fun waves. JC was on it early and I was fortunate enough to meet him down there. Take a look at some of the photos he shot... Cheers!

-Noah Lessing

The Concrete Jungle

2011-11-21T16:19:00.000-08:00

Here's a photo I took from the top of the Rockefeller Building in New York City.
(Click on the photo to make it bigger)

Road Trips

2011-11-10T18:54:00.000-08:00

Well, now that i'm at school at Coastal Carolina University, I am forced to take road trips to get to where the waves are every swell in order to take photos because Myrtle Beach very rarely gets any waves. This swell we went to Pawleys Island which is 45 minutes south of Myrtle Beach. We got to Pawleys island and the swell was just to small. So we called a few friends in Wrightsville, North Carolina and they said it looked around shoulder to head high and clean. We knew the wind was going to stay offshore the whole day so we packed up and headed north for about two and a half hours to finally arrive in Wrightsville, North Carolina. I started taking photos the second I arrived, the waves looked fun, what do you think?

-JC Beierle

ZAWGZ

2011-01-06T14:51:00.000-08:00

As you can see, we've done a great job keeping the blog up and running. Between daily posts and cruising around to get in the water for the FIRING waves, I don't even have time to sleep! HA... nice try. No waves, no blog, no nothing actually. So for all you critters that are as bored as I am, you have 3 choices: watch the 1st video, the 2nd video, or both. Enjoy and don't forget to LAVESE LOS MANOS

//NL

ANALOG - NATHAN FLETCHER -LAVESE LOS MANOS from rook productions media on Vimeo.

This rippin and dippin and sippin has got me trippin

Brian Pollak "Who Da Guy"

2010-11-24T14:06:00.000-08:00

Here is Brian Pollaks shot that got him a "Who Da Guy" in Eastern Surf Magazine. This shot was in Eastern Surf Magazine's November Issue 149. Take a look at Brian killing it!

Shot by : JC Beierle

ESM'S "In Between Storms"

2010-11-17T15:12:00.000-08:00

Here are two shots of mine that ran on ESM's features.

-JC Beierle

Boo..Halloween

2010-11-01T18:31:00.000-07:00

So, Halloween, we Finally had some fun little waves with offshore wind. Here are a couple shots of Tomlin making the best of it..

- JC Beierle

Chris Tomlin is a bear.

Tomlin

Slasher

Flying

October?

2010-10-28T16:31:00.000-07:00

Here are a few shots of Chris Tomlin, water is getting cold.

Summer Swell

2010-07-16T09:23:00.000-07:00

Last sunday (7/11/10) we had a really fun swell here on Long Island. Here are a few shots, hope you enjoy!

-JC Beierle

Alex Fawess

Rich Breen

Alex Fawess

Rich Breen

Alex Fawess

Josh Goetz

Tommy Bunger

Empty Perfection

Summer

2010-06-25T17:35:00.000-07:00

Well this summer has been VERY flat. But today, June 25th, we had some really fun waves along with offshore winds come our way. I took out the water camera and ended up getting a few shots. Enjoy...

JC BEIERLE

Calvery Cemetery, The Domino Sugar Factory, and New York City

2010-05-16T18:17:00.000-07:00

It was a pretty crazy Sunday. I got up and met my Uncle Tom at his home town and we drove to Calvery Cemetery in Queens, New York. A cemetery we have always wanted to visit because we knew it over looked Manhattan, it was the biggest and oldest cemetery in the United States, and we can photograph it. After that we found the old Domino Sugar Factory which has been abandon for about 6 years now. Then we drove to the city to see China Town and Little Italy. It was a fun day, enjoy the photos..

- JC Beierle

Spring is in the air!

2010-05-02T18:56:00.000-07:00

The weather is starting to get nicer and summer is almost here! Here are some lifestyle shots from today (5/2/10)..enjoy..

- JC BEIERLE (jcbhotpix.com)

Alex Fawess, Stevie Patsis, and Josh Goetz all smiles.
Again, Stoked!

Alex's old BMW..still rides like a beast!

Doug Milstein and Alex Fawess having a chat..

Another spot check.

Photo Of The Week

2010-04-10T06:25:00.000-07:00

Chris Tomlin getting slotted.. and his best friend ruining it..Classic!

March Madness

2010-04-05T18:23:00.000-07:00

It has been a crazy March. Two really good swells. This past swell gifted me with some photos..You can also see my photos from this swell in the ESM feature and Surfbang.com's feature... Here are some other shots I took from this month.. The swell left some really fun leftovers as well..

Enjoy,

JC Beierle (JCBHOTPIX.COM)

Waves And Sun

2010-03-06T13:03:00.000-08:00

Today was very interesting. It was absolutely beautiful out, 50 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. Me Graham Eikelberg, Matt Wunderlich, and Andrew Brooke went to a local spot to shoot and it wasn't anything special. Maybe knee high, but mushy. So we get a few clips there. Then we got a call and said a different spot was breaking pretty good. So we show up to the other spot and it was sick! Chest to shoulder high and perfect breaking only 10 feet off the shore. So we got a few shots there. Oh yeah, then we saw a sick Lotus. It was a great day!

- JC Beierle (JCBHOTPIX.COM)

Freezing 3-4-10

2010-03-04T15:04:00.001-08:00

Well, I was excited to shoot when I saw the forecast for today, on monday, and thought it was going to be really sick. We pulled up to the spot and saw reeling 6 foot left and right tubes with only a couple dude's out. We were pretty stoked. I started shooting more pulled back empty waves, so I could capture the wave with the dune grass in the foreground and the bridge in the background. They came out OK. Then I aimed my camera over to Mark Petrocelli ( Faktion Surfboards ) and shot him doing a real impressive turn. So check out the following shots I got and tell me what you think..

- JC Beierle

Weekend Update

2010-02-28T15:32:00.000-08:00

This isn't the Weekly Update with Boost Mobile but its just as good I can assure you. We were graced with waves the past week and hopefully everybody scored. Friday the forecast was calling for a hard southwest wind all day but we got lucky with light offshores throughout the evening. I dipped into Long Beach and found some top to bottom drainerrsss. Saturday was nothing special, and then today (Sunday) we got some fun ones. Surfed Central Long Island in a crowded winter lineup (as if 38 degree water didnt scare off enough people) but managed pretty well. JC Beierle was there to get some shots and rub it in for everybody who wasn't there.

-Noah Lessing

Cowboy Country

2010-02-19T10:26:00.000-08:00

Jackson Hole, Wyoming: home away from home. I've been coming here for 8 or 9 years and it never seems to let me down. Hands down, I've never been to a better mountain. Not only is the snow insane, but the people and the culture keeps me coming back. Every local has given up their lives to live the mountain life. They're scraping to get by and wouldn't want it any other way. I'm pretty sure they would sacrifice anything for their Pabst Blue Ribbon too haha. Anyway, their wasn't as much snow this year as past years but it was still mental. Had a blast messing around in some of the crazy terrain the mountain has to offer. Enough of this sweet talk, lets slam some PBR's!
Cheers,
Noah Lessing

Mexico

2010-02-16T17:32:00.001-08:00

Mexico is awesome. From meeting new people to snorkeling in 75 degree water, everything here is just amazing. Little different climate from Noah's post, looks like he's having a ball on the mountains as i'm making friends with little fishes on the reef. I do not want to leave. I have been having an amazing time meeting new friends, and chillen in the sun! And tonight i had a beer and a cigar with my dad watching the sunset.. Living the life!

-JC Beierle

Freezing.

2010-02-09T16:11:00.000-08:00

Well, last sunday (2-7-10) was probably one of the coldest days, if not the coldest day, I have ever been to the beach. The waves were like chest high, winds were offshore, and it was about 15 degrees. I managed to get a few shots with Stevie Patsis and Alex Fawess. Tomorrow, Wednesday (2-10-10), is expected a major blizzard for the Northeast. My school got cancelled, as well as Work. I am expected to have my road test tomorrow morning, we'll see if that happens!

Here are some shots from an absolutely freezing morning.

- JC Beierle

More Emptyness

Stevie Patsis

Stevie Patsis

Stevie Patsis

Alex Fawess

More Emptyness Perfection

Alex Fawess

Stevie Patsis

Alex Fawess

Stevie Patsis

Some old footy

2010-01-23T15:24:00.000-08:00

Found this on my camera the other day and got a kick out of it haha. JCB Documentary at its finest.

-Noah Lessing

http://www.vimeo.com/8937743

New York gets good? yep.

2010-01-19T19:00:00.000-08:00

After a long trip to Puerto Rico scoring sick waves I come home to 13 days of flatness. I woke up Monday (1/19/10) so stoked to finally get some sick barrels. Me and two friends paddle out in Bridgehampton to reeling left tubes. On my first wave I airdrop to the bottom and brake my board in half. Sick right? I get my back up board set up and get two more freezing sessions in. It was as good as the hamptons get. Top to bottom heavy ass tubes. After eating shit on almost every drop, I got a few sick ones that made it all worth it. Hopefully we get some more this weekend.

- Brian Pollak

Well now that you've seen what the Hamptons looked like monday, what do you say we take a look at what Long Beach looked like. Wouldn't say it was as good as the Hamptons, but it was pretty rippable. I was shooting with Stevie Patsis, who had just arrived back to NY from a month long trip to Hawaii. I would say he scored big time up there. Surfing Pipe everyday will do the job. Going from wearing boardshorts, to wearing a 5 millimeter wetsuit with booties, gloves, and a hood, is a major change he had to overcome. Surfing with broken fingers, Stevie still managed to get barreled.

- JC Beierle

Burr

2010-01-02T20:42:00.000-08:00

Gucci Mane might say it, but I mean it! There's something about a winter surf that makes you cold for the ENTIRE DAY. Yesterday started off 2010 and it was no exception. However the waves did make the cold temps worth it... and to top it off, JC Beierle shot a few keepers. Enjoy ~

-Noah Lessing

Day Trip To New Jersey

2009-12-28T20:40:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, December 27th, Me, Alex Fawess, and Jeff Anthony took a trip to New Jersey around 5 am, we were blessed with New Jersey perfection. The first spot we checked, which was pretty much just a parking lot, looked really sick. No one was out. It was about 8 foot dumping barrels of the jetty. We decided to check a couple of more spots father south and we didn't think it looked much better then the first spot we checked. So we got some food and went back to the first spot we checked. Still looked pretty good.So the boys went in. The lighting was absolutely horrible and it wasn't as good as we thought. So we went even farther south to a town called "Long Branch" as we were driving on Ocean Blvd, we saw two New Jersey local guys get spit out of perfection. So Alex and Jeff paddled out. Thank god we checked there. The lighting was absolutely perfect and the waves were even better then the first spot we checked. It was absolute perfection. Here is a little preview of the day. For more photo's visit JC Beierle's website at jcbhotpix.com in the next week or so photos should be up.

- JC Beierle (jcbhotpix.com)

Greg Goldberg Fund

2009-12-16T11:50:00.000-08:00

"Greg Golderberg, a beloved member of our community was just recently diagnosed with testicular cancer at the devastatingly young age of 27 years old."

Please Join the facebook club:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=357349030051&index=1

Or you can help out by donating money here:
http://www.giveforward.org/gregg/

-JC Beierle

East Hampton Bra!

2009-12-12T20:35:00.000-08:00

Me and Blake Ferraro took the train to to visit our buddy Brian Pollak in Bridge Hampton. Beautiful town, nice houses, nice cows, and just an overall clean town. We had some funny times! We were excited for the morning and checked the surf report constantly because we thought we might be lucky and have some fun waves in the AM..

..We get up in the morning and get a little nervous because all the reports look like crap. So we check about 4 spots anyway, and neither of the 4 spots had waves. We remembered seeing a little wave on a camera in the town of East Hampton. So we say, screw it, lets go check East Hampton. We get there and finally see a wave. It was about a half foot, 30 mph winds, and 20 degrees air temperature with the wind chill. So we spent some time taking "life styles" !!

-JC Beierle (jcbhotpix.com)

THE WAVES SUCK!

2009-12-12T17:43:00.000-08:00

I must say the waves lately have sucked. There has been swell but the wind is just destroying it and it gets me angry. There is a feeling of un-easiness when i don't get to surf at least twice a week and right now that un-easiness is building up to the point where i'm about to EXPLODEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-casey "kluesmiester" kluesener

Modern Collective

2009-12-07T16:31:00.000-08:00

Ok I've seen surfing progress alot the past few years. A rodeo flip here, a kerrupt flip there... but every wave? And some other crazy, spinning, flipping, "I'm gonna jump off my board and magically land back on it" moves that I've never seen before... are you serious? Lets just say I'm pretty sure I have never yelled "HOLY S***" more times in my life!

Oh yeah, here's Jordy getting worked:

-Noah Lessing

G-Men Topple 'Boys

2009-12-07T16:21:00.000-08:00

Headed over to the Giants vs. Cowboys game yesterday 12/6. A relative of mine has season tickets so he gave us a few for the game. Turns out that they were FIRST ROW 50 YARD LINE! Couldn't believe my eyes as I watched the Giants getting amped before the game and even checking out how the water man (yes it was an old man) mixing up some Gatorade for the beasts. Anyway, besides getting a salute from Aaron Ross, a fist pump from Ahmad Bradshaw, and a "one more" from Brandon Jacobs, I also snapped this little clip. Attempted to just get the Cowboy's field goal attempt but it was short and Domenik Hixon started to return it. The two teams got into a little skirmish and I got all of it. It's not too clear but check it out:

"One More"

-Noah Lessing

Waves......again?

2009-12-02T16:13:00.000-08:00

We're looking at some decent sized waves for friday, 12/4. Strong winds from the west will make conditions bumpy, but hey, waves are better than no waves at all.

http://magicseaweed.com/Robert-Moses-SP-Surf-Report/381/detailedLongRange/us/
http://www.swellinfo.com/surf-forecast/fire-island-new-york.html

-Casey Kluesener

Walton, Delaware County

2009-11-30T15:32:00.000-08:00

I spent the weekend after Thanksgiving in a little town called Walton. It is in the Delaware County. Let me tell you, it is a very boring town and half the people who live there are either in there late 80's or they are younger with half there teeth missing. But the one thing that i couldn't wait to take a trip up to was the Walton cemetery where i found out that 144 people in this cemetery fought in the civil war, many people who fought in world war 2, and people such as Albert H. Sewell who was a member of the New York State Assembly, and was also part of the New York State Supreme Court. It was pretty cool when we first got there because half of the cemetery was covered in fog so it gave a cool effect, so i snapped a few photos. Take a look at the photos. This cemetery was a big deal!

- JC Beierle

Night out before thanksgiving=MAYHEM

2009-11-28T17:21:00.000-08:00

All the boys came back from college for thanksgiving and Wednesday was a night full of mayhem and bad decisions. Blake Ferraro woke me up at 7 am to go for a surf after stumbling into my bed around 5 am. I was so hung over I could not even stand up in the water!
-Stevie Patsis

Grab a pint!

2009-11-24T19:16:00.001-08:00

INTRODUCING.... LESSING'S LOCAL ALE
Head down to the Post Office Cafe and drink with the Locals!

-Noah Lessing

More waves in November

2009-11-24T18:47:00.000-08:00

As you can see the waves were not to big but it was for sure rippable. Maybe 5 foot on sets. Then as the day went on a beautiful sunset came alive and I was able to get some cool portrait shots. Looking like some more waves for the rest of the week into Turkey day!

Stevie Patsis

Casey Kluesner

Blake Ferraro

Blake Ferraro

Chris Tomlin

Here we go again

2009-11-22T13:42:00.000-08:00

Noah Lessing here with a quick wave update. Tuesday (11/24)is looking like the day with some good waves coming our way. Swellinfo.com seems to agree.... :

Tuesday
Surf: Head high ESE medium period swell with occasional 1-3' overhead high sets.
Conditions: Choppy/sideshore current in the morning with NE winds 20-25kt. Semi clean/textured conditions for the afternoon with the winds shifting NNE 15-20 kt.

Nor'Ida

2009-11-22T13:15:00.000-08:00

Just recently we have been blessed with a beautiful hurricane swell causing waves to have up to 15 foot faces. Many visitors had came from all over the East Coast and California to surf this hurricane swell...

For more photos from this swell visit JC Beierle's website at jcbhotpix.com