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

In the Style of Rut Blees Luxemburg

Last semester in Uni, I was given an assignment, which was to choose a photographer of my choice, adapt the style of that chosen photographer and apply it to my work.  I chose to look at Rut Blees Luxemburg as she has always been one of my favourite photographers and decided to go and look at urban landscapes around Swansea, Bristol and Birmingham.  These are some of the images that I took!

Photomontages & Book Cover Designs

This is just a bit more work that I did for another module in Uni this year.  Basically, I had to combine a minimum of three of my own images too create a photomontage that could ultimately be used as a book cover.  Some of these, I had a very clear idea about but I don't even know where two of the other designs came from.  Hope you like them anyways!

Front Cover

Back Cover

Front Cover

Back Cover

Front Cover

Back Cover

And if you read the blurbs on the back of the book, I was writing to fill the page so it is likely not too make any sense at all.

Photography Assignment 02

For this assignment, I had to create a photography essay and decided to document my brothers while I was in Abu Dhabi and show their reactions to certain sites.  Although these images won't tell the story I had to try and tell for my project, it's a selection of some of the images I used.  Nice one.

University Work

These are some of my photographs from one of my 'Directed Studies' for photography where I had to try and vary my images and focus on different areas in the image.  It didn't work as well as hoped because my lenses aperture don't vary much but here are some of the images I took anyways.