Fair Go
Sunday, 6 November. Today’s day definitely ranks amongst the top five days of my travels through Australia. Those of you who have known me long enough will probably remember the times of my wearing baggy jeans and XXL T-shirts (an outfit which I proudly wore during school, much to the embarrassment of my mum who was a teacher at my school – sorry mum) and my spending every single minute after school skateboarding…Skateboarding was a very big part of my life for more than six years. These days I only get to spend little time on my skateboard. Lucky for me that skateboarding is like riding a bicycle, once you got the hang of it, that is it.
So, where is the connection to Australia? This morning I left quite early to go to the Fair Go, the biggest skateboarding event for the Far North Coast at Missingham Skate Park Ballina (see picture) which is 25 km south of Byron Bay. The skate park is rated in the top five skate parks in Australia and the annual skateboarding event has been hosted since its humble beginnings in a Ballina car park in 1999. It goes without saying that I did not leave the house without my camera equipment which included sufficient film rolls. By the way, last night I had difficulties falling asleep, that is how excited I was about event. The contest was split into six divisions each of which was run as a jam session which means that 3-4 skaters were performing at the same time. Most of my pictures were taking during the warm up sessions and during the actual competition of the open men’s and open sponsored division. Since this report is addressed to all of you, I will spare you the details of the tricks and the jargon. In brief, some of the level of skateboarding I saw today could easily be used in a skateboard video there is no doubt about it. With some of the tricks I found myself cheering and whistling; good, really good times. From a photography point of view this, again, was a new experience for me. Everything happens a lot faster than e.g. in landscape or portrait photography; with action sports photography there is simply less or none time to properly composition the picture. Also, I have really worked the auto focus of my lens and camera. In total, I took about 130 frames. Due to trial and error, double images and due to the fact that in skateboarding it is virtually impossible to make every single trick, I ended up with about 30 striking and distinctive pictures. As always I have posted my favourite shots of the event underneath. Even if you are not passionate about skateboarding, can I humbly recommend you to still have a look…
Sebastian
So, where is the connection to Australia? This morning I left quite early to go to the Fair Go, the biggest skateboarding event for the Far North Coast at Missingham Skate Park Ballina (see picture) which is 25 km south of Byron Bay. The skate park is rated in the top five skate parks in Australia and the annual skateboarding event has been hosted since its humble beginnings in a Ballina car park in 1999. It goes without saying that I did not leave the house without my camera equipment which included sufficient film rolls. By the way, last night I had difficulties falling asleep, that is how excited I was about event. The contest was split into six divisions each of which was run as a jam session which means that 3-4 skaters were performing at the same time. Most of my pictures were taking during the warm up sessions and during the actual competition of the open men’s and open sponsored division. Since this report is addressed to all of you, I will spare you the details of the tricks and the jargon. In brief, some of the level of skateboarding I saw today could easily be used in a skateboard video there is no doubt about it. With some of the tricks I found myself cheering and whistling; good, really good times. From a photography point of view this, again, was a new experience for me. Everything happens a lot faster than e.g. in landscape or portrait photography; with action sports photography there is simply less or none time to properly composition the picture. Also, I have really worked the auto focus of my lens and camera. In total, I took about 130 frames. Due to trial and error, double images and due to the fact that in skateboarding it is virtually impossible to make every single trick, I ended up with about 30 striking and distinctive pictures. As always I have posted my favourite shots of the event underneath. Even if you are not passionate about skateboarding, can I humbly recommend you to still have a look…
Sebastian
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