Evening surf at Arrifana

Yesterday after a long day of moving from Luz to Lagos and some surfing as well, I decided to go for a evening surf. My kids and their friends stayed in Lagos and went out for a dinner. There are lots of restaurants in Lagos but they went to my favourite one (one of them) it´s The Green Room. A restaurant that serve really good Mexican food. Me on other hand loaded up my longboard and drew up to Arrifana. It´s a 45 min drive from Lagos. Arrifan is a beautiful town well worth a visit, not only for the surfing. I had a nice evening, mostly small longboard waves, but once in a while some bigger sets came rolling in. I surfed until the sun disappeared behind the hill, the water always feel a little bit sharky after the sun gone down.

If you are visiting Algarve, Arrifana is one of the places you should visit.

 

 

This is Emma Lockett riding a small barrel in Arrifana a couple of years ago. Always liked the light and the backdrops on that beach, perfect for surf photography.

June 19, 2017June 19, 2017 by Staffan Rennermalm Categories: family, nature, photography, portugal, sport, surfer, surfing, surfphotography, thesurfexperience, UncategorizedTags: algarve, arrifana, beach, livethedream, longboardsurfing, nature, photo, photography, portugal, sport, sun, sunset, surfing, waves 1 Comment

First week in Portugal

Now we are at Portugal, we have been here for a couple of days. Its been perfect for the two friends how never surfed before. Small waves and nice and warm weather. This week we are staying in Luz. The apartment is just a hundred meters from the beach where you can surf. Unfortunately there has only been one day of surf at this beach this week, so we have to use our car to get to other spots in the area. The cool thing with the Lagos area is that you have booth the west coast and the south coast to choose your spots from. The longest drive with your car is to Arrifana and its about 50 min. When it gets to big on the west coast, the waves starts to hit the south coast. Its actually very consistent here.

Yesterday when we where surfing Zavial this big bird where circulating over our heads. I paddled in and got a chance to take some pictures of him/ her. I believe its a Vulture, big and majestic anyway.

June 16, 2017June 16, 2017 by Staffan Rennermalm Categories: family, nature, photography, portugal, sport, surfer, surfing, surfphotography, thesurfexperience, UncategorizedTags: algarve, animals, nature, ocean, photo, photography, portugal, sport, sun, surfing, volture, waves, wildlife Leave a comment

Portugal again

Time for another trip to Portugal. This time I will bring my kids and they will bring a friend each, total five persons this time. Their friends never been in Portugal and never tried surfing before, so we are hoping for nice small clean waves that suits beginners. When you try to learn someone surfing who never tried it before I always just want them to feel the same enthusiasm and love for surfing as I did the first time I tried it out. I mean, how can you not fall in love with this sport? It´s one of the most greatest thing you can do, sitting in the lineup with your kids and waiting for some waves. Talking about everything and nothing with your kids while you’re waiting for that wave. So I really hope I can show my kids friends what a nice water sport this is. Hopefully I will get back home with some happy kids and lots of new photos.

 

June 7, 2017June 7, 2017 by Staffan Rennermalm Categories: family, photography, portugal, sport, surfer, surfing, surfphotography, thesurfexperience, UncategorizedTags: beach, epic, girls, longboard, nature, ocean, photo, photography, portugal, sport, sun, sunset, surf, surfing, water, waves 2 Comments

Bootcamp Video

Been to lazy recently and not posting anything here. Sorry for that. But here is a video I made for The Surf Experience where I sometimes work as a photographer.  Hope you enjoy it. And yes it is as nice as it looks =)

Bootcamp SurfExperience with Sam Lamiroy

 

May 29, 2017May 29, 2017 by Staffan Rennermalm Categories: bootcamp, photography, portugal, sport, surfer, surfing, surfphotography, thesurfexperience, Uncategorized 2 Comments

Happy Friday

Some days are better than others, the conditions are better, the water is full of talented surfers. After, what seems just to be a short moment, you realize that you spent hours of taking over thousands pictures. This pictures is from one of those days. Almost every sets of waves that came produced at least one barrel. The beach is u-shaped so I could position myself so I was shooting from the side into the barrel. Another good thing with that is in this beach you also get a really nice backdrop, not seen on this picture. So here I cought Sam Lamiroy in one of his many barrels that day. One day I gonna catch one when I am surfing as well =)

March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 by Staffan Rennermalm Categories: photography, portugal, sport, surfer, surfing, surfphotography, UncategorizedTags: barrel, barrels, beach, greenroom, nature, photography, pipe, pipeline, portugal, sport, surf, surfing, water, waves 2 Comments

Nordic Open 2017, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu

Nordic Open 2017 Brazilian jiu-jitsu was held this weekend outside Stockholm. I was supposed to take part but I bailed out. Next time… But I did not wanna miss the competition as a photographer. I spent 7 hours taking pictures during the first day, ended up with 1600 shots. Unfortunate the area where they were fighting was separated with a fence to keep the spectators from coming to close. But as a photographer it means that I can’t take shots from a low position ( due to the fence) and thats my favorite position when it comes to sport photography.  So next time I will see if I can get some kind of permission to be on the inside, would make it lot easier. The light conditions inside the arena was ok, I never use a flash so I have to turn up the ISO to be able to keep the shutter speed fast. Lots of great fights during the whole day.

March 13, 2017 by Staffan Rennermalm Categories: brazilian jiu-jitsu, photography, sport, surfing, UncategorizedTags: brazilianjiu-jitsu, choke, concrete, fighting, gi, jiu-jitsu, nackadojo, nordicopen, photography, sport, submision, tyresöconcrete Leave a comment

International women’s day

Yesterday i should have posted pictures of women instead of men doing jiujutsu, but I failed hard. Sorry! So here are some pictures of women being epic and awesome. When it comes to surfing and skateboarding I think they contribute so much to the sport in so many ways. Not to mention how far we have left before we liv in a world with equal opportunities for women and men.

 

March 9, 2017March 9, 2017 by Staffan Rennermalm Categories: bowlskate, photography, portugal, skate, skateboarding, sport, surfer, surfing, surfphotography, UncategorizedTags: epic, photo, photography, skate, sport, sunset, surfing, women Leave a comment

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

To progress my surfing i started practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu. What happened when I started a year ago, was that it improved my surfing and I fell in love with the sport. In Sweden there’s not always easy to find waves so you need substitutes to surfing as skateboarding and BJJ. These pictures are from last Sunday when wet had a three hour session with to other BJJ-clubs. Great time, hard work and lots of fun. Due to some poor light conditions I got some noise in my pictures.

 

 

March 7, 2017March 7, 2017 by Staffan Rennermalm Categories: brazilian jiu-jitsu, UncategorizedTags: brazilian, brazilianjiu-jitsu, choke, fighting, gi, jiu-jitsu, jiujitsu, marshalarts, oss, sport, submision, surfing Leave a comment

Interview with me

I got interviewed by Rich Bunker for Surf Bunker couple of weeks ago. Here you can read it, interview Enjoy!

February 15, 2017February 15, 2017 by Staffan Rennermalm Categories: photography, portugal, skate, skateboarding, sport, surfer, surfing, surfphotography, UncategorizedTags: algarve, beach, nature, photo, portugal, rennermalm, staffanrennermalm, surf, surfbunker, surfer, surfing, surfphotography, water, waves 2 Comments

Competition time!

Couple a weeks ago I took part in my first surfing contest ever. Didn’t think I would go specially far, actually I thought I would be eliminated in the first heat. The purpose of competition was for raising some money for the Swedish national surfing team (the grooms) The competition fee was 20 euro and all of it went to the national team. The cool thing with this competition was that all the competitors had a change to win a brand new surfboard, didn’t matter how far you went in the competition. So for 20 euro your odds to win the surfboard was fairly high. To be honest I thought I was gonna be kicked out in my first heat. But to my big surprise I won my first heat and I was already in the semifinals. But there my luck run out and I  kicked out. Small waves and lots of fun. I didnt win the surfboard… sadly But hey it was a great day as always at our local spot.

November 9, 2016 by Staffan Rennermalm Categories: sport, surfer, surfing, surfphotography, UncategorizedTags: coldwatersurfing, epic, epicgirls, nature, nopalmtrees, photography, sun, surfcompetition, surfing, sweden, swedishsurfers, torö Leave a comment