Sheep Hills BMX

There’s nothing like grabbing a shovel and building a jump. For most of my life this meant snow and ice, rock salt, water, and lots of chopping. Turns out building dirt jumps on a BMX trail isn’t much different (minus the snow, ice, and cold). The Red Bull...

2013 Wrap-Up

This year has been a whirlwind for sure. Ups and downs, stress and excitement, worry and pure joy. Over the course of this year I had to fight the hardest to stay going since I started shooting full-time four years ago, yet on the other hand 2013 saw my biggest...

Santa Ana Winds

The fall season means heavy off-shore winds in the southern California region. Long, sustained winds blowing all the way from the hot desert/mountains inland, ripping through the canyons, out to the coast. And when those winds coincide with a swell, that means...

Drama and Success at the Hurley Pro

Story and photos by Benjamin Ginsberg/DriftwoodFoto Last week the world’s best surfers converged on Lower Trestles  in San Clemente for the 7th stop on the ASP World Tour, seeing Australian Taj Burrow defeat fellow Ausi Julian Wilson in an action packed final....

2013 Red Bull Illume in Hong Kong

I just recently returned home from the Red Bull Illume awards ceremony in Hong Kong. But let’s back track a little to start. A few months back I submitted a few DriftwoodFoto images to the 2013 Red Bull Illume photography contest focusing on action sports...