Little Randoms.

Shot this photo of Josh Campos backside flipping over the hydrant back on Go Skateboarding Day (June 21st) and submitted it for Slap's GSD photo contest. My shot didn't win, but it was an honorable mention so it still got run in the article. Check that out here. Congrats to Luke Holdstock.


I ended up down in Lennox the other day at some crispy new school and this guy Sesai Parra came through with an epic wall plant down the ten stair.


Another angle. This guy is coming up. You should see him kill Hawthorne park.


Two doors.


The spot is right on the landing path of LAX.


I wanted to try out a fisheye angle but the sun was in the worst possible position.


Went to this spot near my house with Tyler Kindred. He only got to try this kickflip once before security came out. Fortunately he'd already stuck it and just wanted to get a quick photo.

Check back soon for a bunch of photos from a little weekend skate trip to Sacramento.

New Spots.

Been skating and finding lots of new spots lately. Here are a bunch of the photos I've been shooting.


This spot is pretty epic. It's a ledge that apparently was built by Aaron Synder and sits on an abandoned bridge that goes over a river and under a freeway. Here Josh Campos is locked into a front blunt.


Another view of the spot as Josh Campos sets up to hit the ledge.


Austin Squire didn't land this ridiculous 50-50, but he totally could have. I'm calling you out Austin, go back and stick this shit!


Hit up this fire hydrant spot again and Ray Maldonado came through with a proper kickflip. Thats Grajeda Films lurking.


Another kickflip shot. In case you haven't noticed, Ray has been blowing up lately with a First Try Fridays and a Bangin' from the Berrics. Some kid even made a Skate 2 version of his Bangin'.


Alec Beck's ollie over this massive handicap ramp wall was really hard to shoot. So, sorry if you think my photo sucks.


This ledge is pretty sketchy, but Ray handled with a noseslide to a little 5-0 on the curb.


We went exploring for some cutty local spots and Austin Squire handled. Here he is back 180ing over a rail from one apartment complex to another.


Grajeda Films was on the scene, working the angles.


Colin was there looking all suave and shit, leaning against walls.


Grajeda, looking uncomfortable without a camera in his hand.


Austin, bringing that intensity.


Austin floating another back 180.


Unfortunately Austin snapped his board on that attempt.


Fortunately ZJ's was nearby, so Austin just went and set up a new board.


After that excursion we hit up this sketchy brick bank and Austin tail dropped into it no problem.


On another day we did some more local exploring and came across this spot in an alleyway. Josh Campos came through with this switch ollie in a line. He wanted another trick but we got kicked out.


After that we hit up this Venice Beach spot and Josh came through with a gap to noseslide.


Started dicking around with ridiculous head shots at the spot. Mr. Josue Campos.


No man is safe from Jesus' seductive glare.


The design on the side of this porta potty made me laugh. Are those suppose to be mountains, trees, and water?


We somehow ended up in Marina Del Rey skating a pretty pointless flat gap. Austin Squire gets up high on this snap.


Austin floating a first try 180.


Campos came through with a back 180.


Austin came through with the banger of the day, a cartwheel over the gap.


Finally we hit up this rail with limited run up and Austin got down with a quick front board.

Make sure to check out this blog post from Grajeda Films. It has a bunch of footage from some of the photos above.

Skateboarding Photographs.

Here is a bunch of skate shots I've taken over the past couple weeks.


Austin Squire has still been on a tear, but he actually didn't land this gap to lip on a really rough ledge. He was over it after slamming really hard when throwing his board down going full speed on the run up ledge.




Jesus gave me the hero treatment.


Austin was headed to his high school graduation after the sesh, where he had to shake hands with his principal with this hand.


Go Skateboarding Day was pretty mellow. Instead of hitting up the stupid dwindle contest thingy at Venice Beach we just hit up some local street spots. This photo might look familiar. Josh Campos takes us back with a switch crooks.


A little more compact.


Then we hit up our local fire hydrant. Campos was floating over it.


Shot a slightly overhead angle as always. Josh backside flipped over this thing as well, but I'm not posting up the photo quite yet.


After the local spots I hit up ZJ's for their GSD bbq. Alec had been messing around with the idea of wallriding a bus, which inspired Justin Cefai to do this wallride nollie out like a true public enemy number one. This was really hard to shoot cause I had no idea where the bus was gonna be, so it's basically just point and shoot.


He did it again in front of the crowd gathered outside ZJ's. I tried incorporate them into the photo, but it really didn't work because of the shadow casted by the bus. Oh well.


Austin Squire took us all the way out to Malibu the other day, but really made it worth our while by throwing down trick after trick. Here he is throwing himself onto a fence. So sick.


I think all this coverage is starting to get to his head. Check the shades.




The point of the mission to the Bu' was to hit up this rail with a super high bust factor. Austin was only really planning on doing a front board first try then getting out of there.


He handled that no problem.


Austin's homie Jeremiah Bohnett was also there and handled this noseslide.


We got lucky and didn't get kicked out right away. Which gave Austin time to apparently crook his first handrail ever. Which is crazy cause he rolled away from it after only a couple tries. Here I caught him just before touch down.


Jeremiah wasn't done either and came through with a proper smith grind.


Here Austin handles some more with a back lip.


Another back lip. Check Jesus' blog for some footy.


After all that, with the sun disapeering, Austin wasn't done. Here he snaps over a pretty tall fire hydrant along PCH.


Another ollie, with some blur from a longish shutter.


He even managed to catch a kickflip over it. One of my flashes didn't fire on this one.


Jesus got in my way filming fish, so I moved to a more traditional angle.