A great session, and a cool Tee Shirt...

Serangen seems to be my break of choice of late, and today it was one of my best sessions to date. Not because it was huge, because it wasn't, or because I got some cool shots but just for the weather, the vibe and the warmth of the Ocean. I collected 'Dek' in Padma at 7am and headed north to the Serangen turn off on the main arterial route, direction Sanur. It wasn't long before we were bouncing down the dirt track that leads to the beach. We could see on arrival that there were already a fair number of people out in the lineup but the breaks here are spread out over a relatively large area so no worries. I parked in my customary place at Dedik's Warung on the left hand side of the beach, the second small cafe as you look to the Ocean. The imagery from the session can be seen in its entirety at the Album for Today over at the liquidmocean facebook page.

Out came the raw potato, surf photographers out there, my hidden gem of info is to cut a piece of raw potato and rub the starch of the raw internal 'flesh' of the spud onto your lens ports. Everyone is always trying to avoid the water on the port. I do it the other way around, I try to get it sitting in a continuous film across the front of the port acting as another optical element in the focal chain. It seems to work. If the spud is fresh it works better, normally allows you to get a full minute of uninterrupted sheen on the port before it starts breaking down at the beginning. This wears off as the session time increases. I normally find it is still relatively effective until about two hours post application. By that time I'm knackered anyway and just about ready to call it a day in the water.

After a couple of hours in the water I called it a day. Dragging myself away from the waves I headed to Dedik's for my post swim coffee, a handful of Bananas and a quick scan of the images of the session. I also use this time to check up on SMS messages and missed calls etc, just to keep my finger on the pulse as it were. An SMS was waiting for me from the missus, Terri. She'd had word from the Tee Shirt printers that our latest design was ready for collection. Until now we had been making Tee's with our Logo as the main design, as a way to initially get the name out there.

Now I don't know about you but my memory is not the best at retaining the names and places I've met and been so thus the idea for the design we're calling "What's in a Name"? came about. I'm sure there are many of you who've surfed Bali that don't remember all the names of the main breaks here. Well now there's no excuse, the new Tee carries pretty much every break name on it, albeit in a randomly sized, oriented and aligned mass of words. The three red text aspects that stand out from the design are of course the question: What's in a Name? the location of course, Bali and finally the aesthetic that joins everything together, liquidmocean. This and other Tees are currently available via our facebook page's Shop & Win tab.

Cheers,
Mark.