From another session at McNabb Terry Worona doing a back tail on the up box, he threw a bench under it to make it look steeper, didn’t really work but it was. My photographic skills are lacking. Go check out his blog: http://www.woronaphoto.com . I got a D300 in the mail last week, I’m super stoked, and it’s rained everytime I’ve went to go out, hopefully this week. Happy Canada Day.
Friday at work, I got a call from a friend in Tremblant, that one of our good friends had passed away earlier that morning, I would have posted something earlier, but I left for Cuba the next morning. I met Sean when I joined the snowboard school at Tremblant in 1996, we hit it off immediately and spent many weekends over the next 12 years riding the pipe or snowboard park together. It really hit home and shook me up pretty bad to hear the news. Sean was one of those people that always made you feel welcome and comfortable, and was genuinely interested in what you were up to, he was an awesome skier, a super fun dude, and a great musician. My sympathy goes out to his family and all of our friends throughout the Montreal, Tremblant and Ottawa areas that knew him. RIP buddy, you will be missed.
You can check out his music on his MySpace page.
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.
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?
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.
