A Day Skating With Kirtley

After blistering the hell out of the back of my heel (never wear togs that are to small for you, just play in your trainers), there was little skating I could do this week!  Fortunately, I ended up going out just getting photography, which is probably what I should have been doing anyway.

On Monday, me and my mates (Jack Kirtley and Ollie Adams) went around Swansea city centre for a four hour skate and these were the images I managed to get in that duration!  Hope you like them.

BS Tailslide Mecca Bingo Ledge

 

Switch Krooked Mecca Bingo Ledge

Kickflip Puddle Gap, NCP Car Park

No Skateboarding Sign, Castle Gardens

Pigeon Swede, Castle Gardens

BS Nosebonk, St. David's Car Park

Chuck-On Wallride, St. David's Car Park

Melon Grab, Police Station 7

Ollie Adams, Impressed With Steez

360 Flip, Through NCP Railings

Fakie Flip, Through NCP Railings

FS Ollie, Castle Gardens

Exist Skatepark Round 02

Cheers if you voted for 'Exist Skatepark' in the 'Route One' competition, top lads and ladettes!  Exist ended up winning the competition so that means they've won £1000 to go towards the development of the new area in the skatepark!  If you look on their website, you will see they are well happy.

Anyways, this is a photograph I took from a Thursday session down the skatepark.  This is Welsh Tommy with a FS Noseblunt on the mini ramp.

Exist Skatepark

Back in Swansea at the moment so skating a lot more than I would up in Birmingham!  I am also trying to get a lot more skateboarding photography done recently as that is what I have chosen to do for the next assignment in photography on my course.. so here's a few I got from the 'Exist Skatepark' the other day.

Also, if you could please click on this 'Exist Skatepark' link to the Facebook poll page and vote for 'Exist Skatepark', that would be hugely appreciated.  Basically, there was a 'Free Skate Day' on April 2nd around Britain in different skate parks; each park made a video edit (which can be found on the 'Route One Blog Spot' along with the other parks we are competing with) and whichever park gets the most votes wins £1000 to help further develop their park!  The 'Exist' edit is the best and all the other parks are loaded.. so vote for us!!

Gareth Thomas - FS Flip

Gareth Thomas -  Fakie FS Flip

Gareth Thomas - Hardflip

Karim Kamil - Pop Shuv

 

Jack Kirtley - 360 Flip

Victoria Park, Swansea

I thought that I had already uploaded these images to the blog but I haven't so thought I would stick them up now.  Haven't had a chance to do much recently with getting house and work experience but should have some more up soon.  Hope you like these ones anyways.

Millenium Point, Birmingham

Skateboarding: Constitution Hill, Swansea

I was supposed to put these up ages ago and only realised today that they weren't on the blogspot.  Hope you like them, these two were taken over the Easter holidays in Mount Pleasant, Swansea.

Sam Austin Ollie Consta Bollards 

Skateboarding Emersons Green Skatepark, Bristol

A few of us from Swansea recently travelled up to Bristol to skateboard in the background of a 'Casualty' set for BBC and got paid nicely for that!  After that, we hit up a new skatepark just outside Bristol called Emersons Green and managed to get these shots of my mates skating.  Bangin' day!  Hope you like the photographs.

Jamie Hudson BS Tailslide

Jamie Hudson BS Feeble

Hasan Kamil Krooked

Boyo Flip Backlip

Westcross Ramp (Skater Marc Thomas)

As I've been back in Swansea quite a bit recently (as it's Easter and that), I've been getting quite a few photos down this way sorted.  Will put new photographs up soon but thought I'd stick these two up for now as I recently found them again on the old hard drive.

I have also updated the 'Old Photography' page (which is where I should have stuck these but never mind) so check them out if you would as well.  Thanks!

Some Old Macro Shots

Found these two photos the other day which were taken with my old bridge camera.  Might as well put them on the blogspot as I haven't put much on it recently.