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 out shooting quite a bit, and skateboarding.. well not so much, mostly just shooting. It’s pretty embarassing how terrible I’ve become at skating, actually it’s really embarassing, I just can’t find the time to get out and do it like I used to, I guess my devotion to golf is part of the problem. I’ll update soon with some skate photos, for now here’s a photo I shot in the studio a few months ago that I never got around to editing. Ilona Bohlman did hair, and Ellie McMillan did the make up, the model is Grace from Cover Models Management.
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.
It’s been a fun weekend, I revisited my old drinking hole (Ralphs) with Mindy, Colin and Rob on Friday night.. the place hasn’t changed one bit. Saturday hit up some rock and bowling for my birthday, then down to the pump.. Basically I drank more this weekend than I have all year. Good times I think? Happy St Patty’s day to everyone, drink green beer.
Another photo of Whitney from my shoot with her a few weeks back. I’ve been busy and neglecting my photoshopping duties. I turn 27 next week, send me presents for my new house.
I went to OnDeck yesterday to hang out with Tomas and Aaron and take some photos for fun, this winter in Ottawa has been exceptionally snowy and it looks like we might not get out in the streets to skate till April at the earliest. Here’s a photo of Tomas doing a nosebone on the extension part of the mini ramp, gotta love my super sloppy lighting.
February 28th, 2008
Brian
A shot from last week with Whitney one of Vireshs newer models, I’ve been shooting a bit more lately, and the spring is coming soon, I actually can’t wait. I bought some new golf clubs that I need to hit. I’ve also spent the past month and a half working on www.wheelsandwax.com a community based website that I run for action sports photographers. I managed to integrate the existing phpBB message board (including the user database) into Joomla and combine it with Coppermine for a Photo Gallery section. Anyways enough geek talk, here’s a photo of Whitney (Make up by Ellie McMillan):
