Just about two months ago (early June) Folly Surf Photography breached the 10,000 visitor milestone. Right there I should have noticed I had some loyal viewers out there. Right now, after looking over my post for edits as I usually do, I said to myself, "What the heck lets see how the views have been doing during my summer abandonment."

Folly Surf Photography has now been viewed 14,342 times.

That's the biggest month over month increases ever for the blog.

That number was pretty shocking to me.

Seems like the loyalty is pretty strong now even when I wasn't posting anything. I feel bad for letting all the viewers down by posting absolutely nothing with basically no notice. Swell season is here and let's pray to the wave gods so I can make up for lost shots



Thank you everyone

Let's keep this going

Mike C.

Well all I can say is I'm back from my "summer vacation." It's been a while since my last post and unfortunately this summer has been mediocre at best for waves. Guess it was a good time to take a hiatus from the blog.

Good thing is I'm back for hurricane season and from here on out. The gutless 2ft windswell we've been receiving all summer doesn't look good on film and I look like a total creep with a huge lens on the beach in the middle of summer.

Another good thing is that yes, I have some pictures from the Colin swell, unfortunately they are of the second day which if you surfed both days was nothing compared to the first day.

And one more thing to look forward too possibly. A large tropical wave is exiting the African coast and entering the warm waters of the Atlantic. Early models are showing the storm to make a beeline for the Right Coast. Lets hope for a Colin track but a bigger punch.

The Pics

There was some cloud cover the morning I took these pics so apologies for the slow shutter speeds (motion blur)





This one should go in one of those learn to surf books. Stick it in the Surfer Etiquette chapter.

I'm still here everyone. The surf is not. But now that we have got into hurricane season and digressing out of (supposedly) El Nino, hopefully some long period bumps will get going. I don't have as much time as I previously had while I was in school due to my job but trust me, when the surf arrives you'll surely find me at the beach.

No stress tho, the blog isn't going anywhere.

If you get stressed though because of the lack of surf resulting in a lack of posts here on my blog, be sure to check out the Thomas Brothers blog. Bryant is always cooking up some nice video edits of our home break and beyond.

Mike C.

I'm talking about my wisdom teeth extraction I had Thursday. Everyone kept telling me it's so bad, you're out of it for a week...blah blah. The next day, basically no pain. It just kinda sucks I have 4 holes in my mouth.

Here are some more pictures from the past swell we had.

Make sure you check out the video over at A Thomas Brothers Production also. Click the link I have in the upper right corner of the blog.

I couldn't think of a title for this one because unfortunately I am getting out all 4 of my wisdom teeth this afternoon. But good for you guys I got a bunch of shots from this lingering swell we just had roll through. I got a ton of shots. It's going to be tough to get all the shots edited today because of the teeth situation but I'll be posting pics up throughout the next few days, pain permitting.







Just a few right now

Mike C

...Since my last post. I'm more busy now after graduating than I was in school. I have my job and I'm taking one more class with CofC; Sailing. I always wanted to take the class and seriously if you go to CofC take sailing. It's the best class I've taken. So with work and sailing combined, It's been difficult to keep up with my blog.

But I'm back.

Unfortunately the surf hasn't been back, isn't here, or doesn't look like its coming here anytime soon. I look at the forecast/cam everyday and it is the same ankle high mushness. Awful. Maybe we will get something around the knee to thigh range sometime in the next couple of days. Once sailing is over with I'll have a lot more time to post cool things. Sailing ends at the end of May.

Check this out.

You guys know how I am. When I don't post something for a while I feel like I have something to make up to all you readers so theres going to be a bunch of random things in this post. A couple of days ago I was sitting here in my house eating some strawberries. The all too familiar sound of fire trucks in the distance were on their way, ready to terrorize me and my strawberries with their blaring sirens. The firehouse is up the street from me and I live right at a main intersection downtown so the horns and sirens start blaring right at my house.

Usually it's only a couple of trucks going to a routine fender bender but they kept coming and coming down the street. Way more than usual. I grabbed my bike and followed one of the trucks not more than a block and a half away to this.....



At first glance something looks strange. Usually fires start inside of the house, not outside like this one and especially not on the ground near the foundation. After talking with some bystanders we came to the conclusion that it must be a gasline that broke and caught fire. Sure enough SCE&G pulled up minutes later to shut off the line.

Here are some more photos.






All the firemen could do was spray water on the house until all the gas burned off in the pipe.







The gasline stayed burning for about two hours. All of Spring Street downtown was blocked off for almost the whole afternoon while SCE&G dug a hole to stop the flow of gas.

I have a bunch of days off next week so the surf better show up.

Mike C.

The end is near, talking about my college career. Tomorrow will be my last final before graduation. You are probably reading that and saying cool Mike where are the pictures from today. My bad guys and gals I wasn't able to make it to the beach today :( I actually started working at my new job bright and early this morning and then started studying right after work for this last final.

After this final though I'll have a lot more time to get to the beach and surf/take shots. My work schedule is pretty simple also. I'm either working in the morning or in the afternoon so there will be always time for the beach.

Hope everyone enjoyed the the short film Bryant put together over at Thomas Brothers Productions. If you haven't checked it out yet look at my post below.

So don't worry everyone the pictures will keep coming this is just a hectic time for me. Normal picture posts will resume soon.



Below I have two pictures of the purposed site for the new concrete skate park that is supposed to be one of the biggest concrete parks on the East Coast. The City of Charleston has already allocated $2 million towards the project. Steps towards building the park are supposed to begin this June/July.

I also wrote an editorial for one of my classes about the economic impacts the park could have for the city. I'll be posting that later on this week.

Mike C.