I've talked about a deep admiration and fascination with skate photography lots of times. You just have to look at old posts like this one to read me banging on about how it's my starting place in photography. If you do bother to go deeper, please please check out the work of Glenn E Friedman and Grant Britan. You'll see just how much of a copy cat I actually am... but you'll also be viewing some of the most influential images of boarding culture.
Pretty sure it's been written before, I wanted to apply what they did in skating and portraiture around that culture to my surfing images. And in fact the same lens and settings that works for skate so well is what you'd use in a water housing shooting surfing. Like this...
Luke Harwood on the NSW Central Coast 2003 as featured in the book PhotoCPL
Nick Clegg 2021...the same but different
Tuesday this week was the only day that looked any good for skating, no rain, no wind... wind is a vert skater's bane. Cale Tolley organised it, he rallied the vert gentleman's club, the seniors of the trade. Andrew Morrison and Nick Clegg joined. They are regulars at Onehunga.
Morri/Madona
We're all of a similar vintage. The conversations used to be about what you did last weekend, what parties you went to. Now they are about what hurts the most, what parts won't move anymore. Morri is the best at this, he'll explain a recent slam and his real belief he won't be able project above the coping ever again. Then proceed to out tech everyone.
Nick doesn't have a 'can't do' button, his idea of warming up is going straight into full flight. Soon enough things start sticking. Cale gets angry, angry his body won't move the way he wants it to, he bullies himself into the heights.
Cale
Uncle Moz
The gentlemen and their matching decks
The gentlemen put on an impromptu show for the groms. Then proceed to tutor and push the groms... grab earlier, don't try to project so much... go again, now again.
James Charlesworth, getting pushed by the gentlemen
Yeah James!
It highlights skating's inclusivness. Something that's ever so slowly creeping into surfing.
Don't Forget... Olympic Surf Board Riding
how's old mate in the green ring! Coach Matt Scorringe, Billy, Team Manager Michelle Rellis and Ella at the Olympic Village
Ella and Billy have safely landed in Tokyo for their run at Olympic Gold. The surfing will be broadcast starting this weekend... but you are gonna have to subscribe to Sky to view it, there is an Olympic Games Pass which is $24.00 ...which I really wanna write a riot act about but won't.
From The Galleries
Hanging for a surf and some watery photo sessions!!! Here's a solid one from two winters ago. You can view it better HERE