In the spring another photographer named James whom I had met at that Redbull Ice Skating thing I shot last December asked me if he could come and check it out while I shot photos. Aaron, Marty and I met up with him at Dows lake, James invited another friend, and another friend, and soon Aaron and I had a mini entourage. I can’t remember his friends name, but Sarah Dea came too. Anyways here’s a shot of the three of them and Aaron (about to die) at archives (if you’re reading this, you guys never showed me your photos). The photo I shot is to come…
Here’s a photo I shot at the beginning of the summer with Aaron, I shot it with the intention of cropping it, the original has 2 flashes in it or something, smack dab on the left side. This is at Landsdown where I grew up skateboarding behind him on the ledges at the cattle castle, and at the skate park in the Curl-o-Dome (it’s also where I lost my real front teeth). These days you get kicked out even if you’re just skating the parking lot. Times have changed.
Tomas spent the weekend helping some friends put in hardwood floors, 2 years ago he used to do it full time. Apparently after 2 years, 1 weekend of flooring is enough to turn your legs to jelly and make standing up an effort. So Tom grabbed a seat beside me while I shot 1 million photos of Aaron trying to land something. I just got a new D300 and I’m stoked to say that for the 2nd time in 3 days, my 8gb Sandisk Ultra III card got corrupted and it fucked up the middle frame of a sequence of Keith gnarring out. I’m glad his landing was sketchy or I’d feel extra bad. So tomorrow I make the calls to Vistek and Sandisk and Nikon to try and figure out WTF is going on with this.
If you’re in or around the Toronto area in the next couple of weeks (until July 28th I think) you should stop by the Steamwhistle brewery near the CN tower and check out the show that’s going on right now. It’s called the Enlightened Art Show, a series of photos by action sports photographers. I didn’t make it down for opening night, but Andrew Norton snagged this photo of the prints up (from left to right photos by: Brian Garson, Gonzo Tudela and Geoff Cliffard) . They took everyones digital files and created 2×3′ prints on light boxes, it looks really sick.
