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.
Well this new spot is a definite bust, I’m talking 5 tries until you have a big scary white trash dude yelling at your from a balcony about how he’s going to break you in two if you try one more time type of bust. We rolled up, such a nice and un-tapped spot, Aaron had been there once before, got about 2 tries before getting kicked out. The worst part is it’s pretty complicated to get all the way there, and there’s no real easy escape route, especially if you have flashes set up. We only got a few tries for this, and Aaron didn’t really pop a nice one / my timing kind of sucked. Anyways this place would rule if you could actually skate it, I won’t be going back.
I’ve been getting out a couple times a week since the sun showed up a few weeks ago to shoot photos with Aaron and Neil, and whoever else comes out. I definitely missed it all winter that’s for sure, I’m building up my bank of photos on my computer again and am already getting behind with them. I also played my first rounds of golf last weekend with the nice hot weather, I just hope it keeps it up. Here’s a photo of Aaron doing a feeble at dows lake.
I got a few photos and a short article written by Keith in Confused Media skateboard magazine from Vancouver. I was supposed to send in photos forever to them but I always put it off, forgot about it, so on and so on, so I guess they just got fed up and grabbed the photos off my blog and ran with them. I’m pretty impressed they printed as well as they did. Anyways here’s some old ones of Aaron, Keith and Neil.
So I’ve been holding on to this one for the past 8 months or so, SBC was planning on using it for their upcoming grind issue, but then decided last minute not to run it.. the other mags weren’t stoked on it either. It’s too bad, but pretty common for my photos haha, I was just hella hyped on it, I mean the shit has Skateboard with an arrow pointing at Aaron, c’mon what more could you ask for haha. Anyways this is one of my favourites from last year:
Aaron is back.. first time out this year and we got 3 photos, I guess he really was stoked all winter to get shooting again. We hit up a few spots, and ended it with this hippie jump. To be honest I can’t believe I let them convince me to shoot this, but I’m actually pretty stoked on the photo minus the lens flare.. I might be just a little bit rusty over the winter.
Nope, skateboards can’t swim. Aaron gave this a go a few times, but was unsuccessful, and even more unsuccessful once he kicked his board out and it went in the river.. straight to the bottom. Oh well, maybe this year? Maybe he can actually get on it this time too?
February 11th, 2008
Brian
The winter is going by pretty fast and I’ve only spent 2 days out riding so far, hopefully I’ll get more in. I went up to Tremblant yesterday with Howie and Dunn, and got some good riding in (the bar stool also saw a lot of action… funny how that works). I also spent the last two weekends shooting ice sculptures and people carving said ice sculptures for the NCC here in Ottawa, at Winterlude. It was definitely a different type of photography for me, very out of my norm of shooting 10-15 photos and calling it a day. Here’s a photo that I could never get to look right in photoshop, something bout the colours are off.. maybe I should just convert it to black and white.
I’m sorry blog, I’ve been neglecting you.. actually I haven’t picked up my camera in about 2 months. It’s pretty strange but I go through times like that where I’m just lacking inspiration.. or something to shoot. Either way things are turning around, I’ve got a shoot next week with Cover Models Management, and then a contract for 2 weekends to shoot Ice Carvers at Winterlude for the NCC in Ottawa, should be fun. In the mean time, here’s a photo from sometime in the summer of Aaron doing a back tailslide bigspin out. Maybe it was shuv out.. I can’t remember.
