Recent Wedding shot in Boynton Beach, FL

Recently I shot a wedding in Windy blustery south florida. 

No name storm images on Surfline.com and ESM

No name storm images on Surfline.com as Matt Oberman and I score a session to ourselves...

A weird system formed near Florida and threw some waves our way along with a bunch of confused surfers on where to surf.  Oberman and I found the spot while everyone else drove right past it.....  A couple shots published on Surfline.com, check it here and Easternsurf.com, check it here.

Vote for Noah Flegel for Sports Illustrated Kid of The Year

Check out local superkid Noah Flegel, whom I shoot and VOTE for him!  He is up for Sports Illustrated Kid of the Year!

Hi,

    Noah Flegel has been selected as one of the 10 semi-finalists from a nationwide search for the Sports Illustrated Kid of the Year.  We need your votes and everyone you know to vote for Noah on SIkids.com/skoty from October 7 to the 17th.  You can vote as many times as you want, so please do so as much as humanly possible! 

We are so excited to promote wakeboarding and surfing with a super successful local Florida athlete!  Please help support him via all media.  TV, Newspaper, Radio, Facebook, Twitter, E-mail, Online, and word of mouth.

(Ben Hicks Photography  561-558-7895)

If Noah wins he will be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated Kids, as well as media coverage including national TV interviews. 

        

Listed below are some of the highlights of Noah's last year of competition. 

2 Wakeboarding World Championships won this  summer.The IWWF World Champion in Milan Italy in the 14 and under  division
The WWA World Champion in the 14-18 Jr. Men Division

The WWA Wakeboard National Champion for the Jr. Men Division 14-18  years old.

3rd Place in Pro Men Division at World Wakesurf Championships
1st Place Trophy at the NSSA Surf Contest in Melbourne,  FL 1st Place at ESA Surf contest in Lake Worth,  FL

Fundraising for Orphanage of El Tunco, El  SalvadorFeeding over 70 homeless people at a shelterMaintained a 3.5 GPA at the North Broward Preparatory School

Hurricane Katia: How I got the shot. Brian Noel, Sebastian Inlet, FL run on ESM.com

                                                                                     Photo: by Shane Leon

The shot above really shows how a fisheye lens can really distort wave size and make things look a lot different than shooting other angles.  The top photo was ran in ESM as a feature on Hurricane Katia along with the ones below.  Brian Noel, Tanner Strohmenger, Matt Oberman, Cheyne Cottrell and I traveled up to Sebastian Inlet very early in anticipation of the rising swell of Hurricane Katia.  Upon arriving at the beach we were pretty disappointed with the dismal conditions and nearly drove back home.  Instead we made the most of it and I went out for a swim with the crew.  Only to find out that the moon jellies infestation was in full effect and all of us were itching within minutes.  I had to get creative and told Tanner and Brian to pull in on the inside bowls.  My friend Shane Leon, caught a shot at the same time of the shot published above, so you can really see how it went down and how tiny the waves were.   Shot with a Canon Mark 3, Tokina 10-17 mm lens inside an Aquatech DV4 housing and LP1 port,  1/1000 sec f10 manual focus, ISO400.  Good work Brian!

Cover shot - The Home Mag

Another cover photo for Coastal Screen and Rail.

Stock Publisher brand logo

We recently finished the face of Stock Publisher.

Interior Architecture for Castle Tile and Marble

Here are a few of the many shots we have done for Castle Tile and Marble.

Product shots: Butterflies from around the world

I was recently asked to shoot an entire product line for a small company that imports butterflies from around the world.  Encased by a clear acrylic box and meticulously arranged and mounted to perfection, each box is an art piece in itself.  Here are couple of the different butterflies that were shot from the 130 versions. 

This weeks published images on Hurricane Irene...

Here are some shots from Hurricane Irene that have been published so far.  Cheyne Cottrell, Tanner Strohmenger and Matt Oberman.  They can be found on ESPN.com, Surfline.com and Easternsurf.com