The first time I saw Mike Guest stitch together some motion from a dawn swim, I definitely got curious. I couldn't bring myself to commit to a daily dawn swim at the time, not for any real reason anyway. So when he announced that January he'd be up to the old tricks that are Dawn Days I thought I should give it a try.​

I've admired Mike's work through the Dawn Days project. The more he created and explored human experience in the ocean at dawn the more I was drawn in. It seemed more than just being in the water with a camera, more like a meditative or self-exploration experience. As my own journey progressed, that's what I found anyway.

Many days I still found myself debating where to go to get nice waves or out of the wind, it's a hard thing to release when shooting waves has been the main driver of my work. But this wasn't work. As the days rolled on I began to catch myself in moments of stillness, and I liked it. Even on some of the most horrid days, I began to see glimpses of magic in randomness.

The Dawn Days experience was wild, difficult at times, cold all the time, but gosh was it magic too - inside and out. And the last couple days I was rewarded with sunshine and clean swell.