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.

Food Photography

I haven't updated this in blog in a while but heres some recent work I did for my first assignment due in tomorrow.  I had to do some photography in the style of a certain photographer so the photographer I chose to adapt the style of was David Loftus.  So these are the images that I took.

24hr Spar, Swansea

Went into Swansea earlier to try and get some night shots and ended up getting this by 24 hour Spar, luckily, the regular smack heads weren't about so I came home with all my camera equipment.  Hope you like the photo anyways.

Playing With Fire

Haven't done much night photography recently so thought as we had a fire in our back garden that I'd mess around with exposures, apertures and see what sort of shots I could get.  These are some of the pictures that I got but another twelve photographs will be on my Flickr as soon as they let me log into my account.  Happy with some of the pictures, so hope you like them!

Evening Post Work Experience

Back in July, I managed to get a work placement in the South Wales Evening Post which covers Llanelli, Neath, Port Talbot and Swansea.  Learnt a lot during my work experience to be fair and even managed to get one picture printed in the paper which was class.  Hears some of the work that I did during my work experience.

Swansea Continental Market

On the last day of my work experience, I was asked to go out and find a story and if it was good enough quality to go in the paper, it would get printed.  In fairness, it wasn't quite the sort of shot they were looking for (too much going on in background and too much space for press photography) but the main photo editor Steve said he'd let it go in on Monday's paper.  So happy days, been published in the local paper!

Retiring Teacher At Cwmbwrla Primary School

On this shoot, I went out with one of the other photographers who worked for Evening Post as they were asked to get photographs of leaving Cymbwrla school as she was retiring.  These were the two best images I got at this shoot.

Clyne Golf Club

This was a photograph taken at 'Clyne Golf Club' for their promotion on supporting our troops, offering them a free membership at their club.

Weight Loss, Dragon Hotel Gym

This photograph was taken at the gym in the bottom of the Dragon Hotel in Swansea.  The story was about this girl pictured who lost 2st in their gym before going on holiday to Spain and this was the photograph I got of her.

Morriston Chapel Coin Story

This photo was taken at Morriston Chapel.  The story was to do with a coin that they believed to be placed underneath the top of the steeple by a little girl back in the 18th century; while they're doing up the church, they're gonna check if the legends true and if a coin is really there (as far as I can remember).