Today started off great, Woke up got in the shower and ate a bit. Then I text Ryan right about 12:30 and he said they would give me a call when they get out. I was stoked since I have not shot with Mr.Cooper in a minute.

Soon after that I get a call from Ethan wanting to know if I wanted to get this photo:

And of course I was down for it...I asked him if he wanted to shoot this photo a while back. And so I told him I would meet him at the park. So I made my way down to the skate park. Shulman pulled in right behind me and I road with him to the spot. This thing was in a new development, and some were still being finished on the inside.

So I went ahead and setup, Ethan threw a few 50-50's out there for me to mess with. Not soon after he started getting close to the smith grind we came for. And some of the neighborhood started to notice us skating and came and watched.

A few tries later this woman in a car stops in the landing area and says:

Women: "what do you think your doing?"
Ethan: "Trying to go pro"
Women: "What?"
Ethan: "trying to get paid"
Women: "Well I'm the property manager and I say you can't do this here"
Me:"OK"

After that she drives off, and we gave it a few more. Well worth it in my opinion. Photo came out sick and I was stoked. Something you can tell in the picture is that the rail actually bends in when your on it.

After that Ethan calls Shupe to see where every ones at. We find out there at the Brainerd High out-ledge and we head on over. Place was poppin' off, few cars there and some sick faces to see. Me and Shupe played a quick game of rock/paper/scissors to see if he would film first or I would shoot first.

I won and started shooting the sequences:

Nick was there and he got down:
Then just a few tries later Jim got his trick:

Super hyped that everyone was getting what they wanted.

Until Cameron's trick just wasn't there today, Maybe the roughest day I've seen him have.

New board = chipped on first try


Ledge= Would be too buttery and too sticky in certain spots that would mess with his setup for the flip out...
Tried to make it less icy.....

As Cameron kept trying everyone else was chilling:

Sequence peep'n


Shupe filmed a bit.

Cameron was over it and was hoping for a better time at the next spot. So we set off to the North Park downhill manny pad. Scott wanted to get a trick, and he used my board. His board was M.I.A thanks to a little mix up in plans. Glad to see a photog's board got the job done. (I'll post the sequence tomorrow)

Shulman was over the manual pad:
Cameron was over this spot too:

Jim wasn't though:Well then maybe he was:

As the large line died down as people were over the spot, Ryan got this pressure flip manny:

So after Shulman tried to get another sequence with me over on the other manual pad. He did it earlier when me and Shupe were at the other pad. It wasn't happening now, just how it works sometimes. So we headed over to the Hamilton Heights Rail. We got the boot before we could even skate it.

So Cameron came up with this other spot close by:
Cameron ollied it to slip out a few times. Then his day got worse with a slip out.. his board hit the curb and bent the truck. And that was the ender to this bad day in Cameron's life.

Shulman stuck a kickflip on it several times, and broke his board. I'm going to sit on that one for awhile though.

All in all it was a very fun day with limited kick outs. Which made for an interesting day out, well except for Cameron =)

I know he will bounce back.

Got plans to head to ATL with Scoggins tomorrow. Should be fun as the A always is. Look for that post tomorrow!

Well today I got a call from Scott, He wanted me to check out this hip spot. So I met him and Jim at the park and road with Scott.

This spot is gnarly, not even because the spot is that crazy. To GET TO this thing you have to run across the interstate. Yes thats right....thought it was crazy too.

But you realize its worth it.

Scott was not scared a bit.

1/500th F4.5 ISO 1000

Jim was a little freaked out about it.

But he got over it.

Scott was steady R.I.P'n this spot.


After that we crossed the interstate again and went back to Scott's bird.

Jim was debating if he should skate this thing.
But a few tries later he came away with something sick.

Then we cruised over to the Bump-to-hydrant.

And Jim wanted to get a 180:

1/250th F 7.1 ISO 200 Front Flash 1/4 Back 1/2

Don't blame him either, It came out sick!

Then Nick, Cameron, and the rest of the crew came rolling up. Cameron got a trick on the bump, but......I'm trying to do something with it :)

After that Scott wanted to try and get this photo at The Aquarium's bank. We rolled up on a sure bust spot. And I went to setup before anyone stepped up and threw down.

And then Scott noticed this man-in-blue hanging out across the street. So we figured we could wait for another time.

By that time it was Grub or Skate decision time.... (jeopardy theme chimes in)

Everyone decided to go skate this funky long rail that Scott 5050'd and Cameron got a boardside on.1/500th F3.5 ISO 1600 for that (Old Film Look)

Fake Pano. lame?? ya a little...Don't care though!



Scott and most of the guys split to get some grub.

Me, Cameron, Nick all went and tried to get some photos at TVA.

BAD IDEA, I mean I'm down to go but the TVA Police are on that shit.
Enough said, some name taking, and some threats later we walked out of there. Cops are really looking in the downtown area lately. Hopefully this isn't a on going thing.

Here's some of the attempts.

1/100th F4.5 ISO 200 Flash Top left 1/2 Flash bottom right 1/2ditto above settings.

about 10 minutes worth.

This blog will not only contain skateboarding, this will contain daily posts of something I shoot that day. I am usually behind a camera atleast once a day.

Well until my next entry.
Peace!

Welcome to my make-shift blog/Journal.

My website/Portfolio is in the works, so until then enjoy this!

Well I got a call and email from Chris Scoggins yesterday wanting to know if I would like to tag along and shoot some. I of course answered "I will be there", Trying to make the most out of my days here before I go back up the river for the summer!

Show up at the park, and meet up with Scoggins. And we got to talking waiting on the rest of the crew to show. And I remembered always wanting to shoot a fisheye photo of a push in front of this wall in the park's parking lot:

I think it came out pretty sick eh?

Next Scoggins brought up this bar outside the entrance to the skatepark. Some local filmer guy made it "famous", we all know who that is.

Anyways Scoggins was wanting to mess around on it, by then A-Rose and Ryan showed up. We all pushed are way out to this bar, Got a few shots:

A-Rose got a back fiddy.

Chris Scoggins got a nollie teezie.

Soon after Rose landed his shit, we realized these dudes were running late. So we thought about just doing our own thing. And me and Scoggins road with A-Rose to this Bump-to-hydrant:


This thing was no joke, needed "your jumping legs on" as Scoggins put it. So we headed back to the park...

Then everyone pulled up and we were stoked.

Scoggins wanted to shoot this ollie with the fisheye. After the youth minister gave us a pep talk and said church was in session, I had the feeling we would get the boot. Scoggins pulled it off quick, and after a few more pep talks we packed up and headed out.

Ollie photo

After cruising down to the riverfront ledges and getting the boot from SGT. Dick, we peeped a few other spots and those too were a bust. Or...... there were cars parked in front of it. GO FIGURE!

So the always dependable spot = Peeples



This spot is a foundation/building that has gone to the skaters, or atleast the back of the building.

Some of the peeps' at peeps.

I was sitting down watching everyone skate when I seen Nick land this ollie into this ghetto kicker. I asked if he wanted me to shoot it, he said sure:


Then he kickfliped:


Soon after that I noticed that he was sweeping out the bottom of this one gap. I shot it, he was nice enough to let me get a still and a sequence haha.



Then as things started to wrap up, I saw this reflection:




Pretty productive day, really looking forward to more like this.