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VIRGINIA’S FINEST AWARD | Ed Obermeyer
In Memory of Anne M. Virga, a Virginia artist by her family, Valerie Neff and Ed Kelly
Such a wonderful surprise to be chosen for this prestigious award! Thank you so much MOCA VB.
Grand Ola Verde, 36 x 60 acrylic, one of the two pieces selected.
Dawn Patrol At the Jetty, the other image selected.
Virginia’s Finest award.
I was delighted when David Uhrin asked to use some of my photos and some of John Wrights surf photos as well to highlight the amazing story written by our local surf pro, teacher extraordinaire, and just all around great guy, Jason Borte. Thank you so much!
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Well, 72 years around the sun and approaching 73 this year but thank God the body is still working pretty good. It takes a bit more to do the usual things but the key is keep exercising, stretching, get the check ups and keep a watchful eye on your health and diet. The cold water has definitely been the biggest challenge yet! Even with the thickest gear possible the extremities get numb pretty quick but not until after I capture the shots!
John Pritchard still has the goods!
Quite a few shows going on this year too. With the El Nino the weather is going to be a factor, whether you believe it or not. The more shows you enter the better chances a few will actually happen and not be hampered by the weather. Best to be prepared as opposed to being sorry.
Hope to see many of you at the shows this spring and fall and of course, if you want any photos or prints just send me the image you would like along with the size and media and I can get it to ya. Thanks to everyone who has supported my paintings and photography all these years, lets keep it going!
Rarely has Va. Bch. gotten surf this size or quality. This was clearly a day that was bigger and better than just about anything I’ve seen here…had to shoot from the beach because the size and current were just way too much for this aging surf dude.
Unknown rider dropping in on a beast.
Mark Barney getting it done and making it look easy.
Mark Barney
Free fall drop
Ice Cream headache on the duck dive…
Raging current pushing north
Style and grace
Snap
There were actually sets breaking out past the two buoys!
Meanwhile on the inside…
A new dawn for 2023, with such a great start to fall. Hurricane Lee continues to send us endless surf.
The amount of hurricane swells after an incredibly flat summer has been so welcomed! It just keeps coming with those warm ocean temps too.
Robyn Soergel
It’s also been nice to get some of my photos accepted by Surfline for their “Stories”. This one was of Hurricane Lee, with Robyn Soergel.
Martin Bardoun hurricane Lee
Riley Scharver, Hurricane Lee
Looking forward to a few fall shows this year as well. The end of Sept. into the first week of Oct. is the Neptune show. I’ll be on the corner of 29th street at the Oceanfront in front of the Oceanfront Inn. Thanks to Andy and Ann Vakos for helping me out! The following weekend weather permitting will be the Ocean View show and after that the MOCA Boardwalk show, also on the corner of 29th Street on the boardwalk. Hope to see some of you there. This is a great opportunity to support my work even if you just stop by to say hello.
Cover for story at the jetty during winter.
Trish Steingold
Phillip Goold
Brandy Flotten
Will be treading water a lot this month to get the shots for the upcoming shows. Thanks to my buddy Felix Ramos for capturing this one of me in action.
Treading water in the Atlantic Ocean searching for the shot…
I’m totally thankful for still being able to surf and swim and shoot after all these years and injuries. I’ll be 72 this year so to still have the goods is a great feeling. Having sold work to places like Australia, England, Costa Rica, Panama, Canada and others is just surreal in every way. I’m especially thankful to Direct Performance Physical Therapy to assist in my adventures and keep me in the groove.
Felix Ramos captured this shot of me going out for a session this winter.
…and this one as well. Good advertisement for O’Neil!
I’m prepping up for the new show season with tons of local shows at galleries, museums, and of course, on our local Boardwalk. So far the responses have been very positive.
Caught our local Billabong Rep Ken Hunt throwing buckets this winter at the jetty.
Finally upgraded to the mirrorless and the result has been amazing. Such clarity and focus and low light capabilities along with seamless frames per second. Well worth the investment.
Two Aquatech Edge Housings for the R6 and the RF 24-105 and RF 70-200 lenses. The results have been incredible.
Cold January morning…
Daniel Parish getting it done.
$25.00 each for these beautiful limited edition calendars. The Wahine Rippers of Virginia Beach (all the girls) and the Storm Riders of Virginia Beach (the guys). Shoot me an email for payment and deliver. I won’t be shipping these due to costs so it’s a local thing for the most part.
Cover for the guys calendar, “Storm Riders Of Virginia Beach”
Thumbnails of the guys.
Wahine Rippers Cover.
Some new releases from Hurricane Ian and the resulting swells that just kept coming…
Leftovers From Hurricane Ian, Pendleton #2 ©10/06/2022
Leftovers from Hurricane Ian, Pendleton ©10/06/2022
Pendleton, Hurricane Ian Leftovers ©10/06/2022
Thanks Virginia Beach City Public Schools, MOCA VB, all the art teachers, administrators and support staff for letting me share with you my “Body Of Water “. The teachers made some great paintings and were totally stoked. The best part is every single painting whether realistic, stylistic, or abstract was just amazing, unique and different. Thanks for letting me share my passion for the ocean, surf photography and surf painting.
One of the art teachers pieces. I love how they were all unique and different expressions about the ocean.
Another great interpretation by one of the art teachers.
Intro with Marilyn Stewart, one of the presenters from PA.
So, one of my friends and fellow art teachers/surfer girl Morgan Knight was captured in my lens recently and I thought wow! This pose looks just like Botticelli’s “Birth Of Venus Painting” circa 1500’s or so.
Known as the “Birth of Venus”, the composition actually shows the goddess of love and beauty arriving on land, on the island of Cyprus, born of the sea spray and blown there by the winds, Zephyr and, perhaps, Aura. The goddess is standing on a giant scallop shell, as pure and as perfect as a pearl. She is met by a young woman, who is sometimes identified as one of the Graces or as the Hora of spring, and who holds out a cloak covered in flowers. Even the roses, blown in by the wind are a reminder of spring. The subject of the painting, which celebrates Venus as symbol of love and beauty, was perhaps suggested by the poet Agnolo Poliziano.
It is highly probable that the work was commissioned by a member of the Medici family, although there is nothing written about the painting before 1550, when Giorgio Vasari describes it in the Medici’s Villa of Castello, owned by the cadet branch of the Medici family since the mid-15th century. This hypothesis would seem to be born out by the orange trees in the painting, which are considered an emblem of the Medici dynasty, on account of the assonance between the family name and the name of the orange tree, which at the time was ‘mala medica’.
Unlike the “Allegory of Spring”, which is painted on wood, the “Birth of Venus” was painted on canvas, a support that was widely used throughout the 15th century for decorative works destined to noble houses.
Botticelli takes his inspiration from classical statues for Venus’ modest pose, as she covers her nakedness with long, blond hair, which has reflections of light from the fact that it has been gilded; even the Winds, the pair flying in one another’s embrace, is based on an ancient work, a gem from the Hellenistic period, owned by Lorenzo the Magnificent.
At the jetty in July.
‘The Birth Of Venus”
Thank you Andy and Ann Vakos from the Oceanfront Inn for my new exhibition space in your hotel. All works are for sale. This will be an amazing extension of my booth space at the MOCA Boardwalk Art Show and the Neptune festival boardwalk show.
My last show this spring, the VB Surf Art Expo was a huge success. I am now in museum and gallery mode until August with lots of fun shows to do indoors. These two pieces, one my photo and the other my painting were a great hit.
The 36 x 48 painting.
the photo.
This is my latest photo that will be in the Surf and Sounds of Summer show at the Suffolk Cultural Arts Center.
Nagshead Pier © May 15, 2022
1/4000 sec @ f/4.0, ISO 320, 70mm
EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM
The H20 show at the Artists Gallery/VB Arts Center will have two of my pieces, this photo and the painting “Took It On The Head”.
Friday March 13, 2021, photo on metal, 24 x 36
My outdoor shows will start up in August at the Annual ECSC at the end of that month.
Here is my latest update on prices for my work. Due to supply and demand, materials issues, and delivery problems for just about everything I regrettably had to increase them. The paper prices remained the same even though my cost for that also increased but canvas and metal have gone up.
My friend and fellow surfer Jason Stick took a couple shots of me coming out of the water.
water was 40 degrees, air was 43?…brrrr…my fingers went numb after ten minutes and those are 7mm gloves?
To say it has been challenging to shoot the surf this winter would be an understatement.
MLK Day January 17, 2022 was exceptionally challenging…
Martin Bardoun
Ready for the 2022 shows with my new Kia Carnival and a new trailer wrap that features both my original fine art paintings and photography.
These are my best shots of the 2021 sessions in a stunning large format calendar. If you would like one please send me an email at edobermeyer@cox.net and I can send you a PayPal request for one and then deliver to you in person. If shipping to you please add $5.00 for packaging and shipping costs.
Cover is Blue Dawn At The Jetty July 5, 2021
May thru August
September thru December
Back cover
Tidewater Waves Interview, July 2021