Shooting The Pier

A random collection of shots of surfers captured shooting the pier at Venice Beach.

Jim Muir

Jamie Perez

Venice Skatepark From Above

Wednesday Wipeouts

Every Wednesday, a collection of the best and worst wipeouts that been caught by Six12 Media. This week's are from the Santa Monica Pier Raddleboard Races that went on last Saturday.

Santa Monica Pier Paddleboard Race

The Santa Monica Pier Paddleboard Race & Ocean Festival took place once again on the south side of the Santa Monica Pier on Saturday. This all day event featured several races for paddleboarders, standup paddleboarders, and swimmers, as well as lifeguard dory racing. Aside from the racing, there was several youth beach competitions and a large vendor's village up on the pier that included a pop-up surf history museum.    Last year, huge surf cause carnage on all the races, with racers being tossed off their boards like rag dolls. This year the surf was just right.

Elite SUP Men - Jamie Mitchell Elite SUP Women - Shae Foudy Elite Paddleboard Men - Shane Gallas Elite Paddleboard Women - Candice Appleby Paddlecross Paddleboard Men - Shane Gallas Paddlecross Paddleboard Women - Candice Appleby Paddlecross SUP Men -Mo Freitas Paddlecross SUP Women - Candice Appelby (yes, again!) One Mile Swim Men - Ryan Bullock One Mile Swim Women - Leah Timmerman Run-Swim-Run Men - Ryan Makuta Run-Swim-Run Women - Kira Makuta Youth 250M Swim Boys - Ryan Keith Youth 250M Swim Girls - Natalie Smith Youth Soft-top Paddle - Sydney Brouwer

Check out over 500 more photos of the races in the Santa Monica Pier Paddleboard Race Photo Galley. There's photo albums for each race. Also check out the 2013 Photo Gallery for photos of the carnage cause by the huge surf at last years event.

UPDATE! New video edit of the races:

Last year's racers faced some huge surf.

Other event photo galleries:

Wipeout Wednesday

Every Wednesday, a collection of the best and worst wipeouts that been caught by Six12 Media.