If there isn’t snow on the roads, then there are skateboards.
Shooting skateboarders is like shooting wildlife (or small children): they don’t sit still and pose. If you’re lucky, they’ll stop at an intersection. In the shot below, a kid stopped long enough for me to notice how his shadow was “embraced” by the shadow of a street light. Lucky me.
But most shots of stationary skateboarders are boring. I want to get them in motion. That means I have to shoot a lot and throw out most of it. To get the shot below, I stepped onto the street and a van backed into me. No harm done. But it did serve as a pointed reminder: always be aware of what’s going on around you!
The third shot in this series didn’t start out as a skateboard shot. I was fascinated by the interplay of curved and straight lines. I held my camera in place and kept shooting as people moved through my frame. Then this kid on a skateboard appeared …
