Tuesday, November 11, 2008

At one time in my life...

I was just like them. When skating was the most important thing of the day and we were too busy thinking about where were we going to go? And, what were we going to find out there for us to skate? If you asked me right now, I may tell you it was a long time ago, but it wasn't that long ago in actuality. Come to think of it, it has been close to four years since I photographed inline skating. One of the things I remember most about that year photographing inline skating for Valo and various magazines was during our almost daily road trips around California. Staring out of Jon Julio's 3 series BMW from the passenger side window, with the only intention of finding something new to skate. Didn't matter what it was, or where it was, we would stop and check it out. If one of the guys thought they could bust a sick trick, we'd unload, skate and shoot. After we got bored, we moved on to skate something different. This was our routine and our lifestyle. Those were good times and good friends that I will never forget!

During my hiatus as a skate photographer I helped the owner of Valo Brand, the famous Jon Julio, with photographing the first advertisements (below) which helped mold the beginnings of what is now THE BIGGEST inline skate company in the industry. Here's some of those advertisements...


Team Photo, Pikes Place, Seattle, Washington


John Starr, Somewhere in LA, California


Mike Lilly, Tallahassee, Florida


Charles Dunkle, Montgomery, Alabama


I even got my own page in a Be-Mag photo issue!


Here is a slide show of my inline skating images, some from above and some that never made it to print. (I'd also have more but a computer failure has taken some work away from me)

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