While You Were Sleeping

Here are some photos I shot in Melbourne city, capturing the bright lights, colors & shapes of the city that make this place come to life in the dark of the night while most people are sleeping.
I've always found the lights of cities at night are able to transfix me, almost hypnotizing in a way, especially when it's as quiet as it was while shooting these. There is nowhere else like Melbourne.

AJ47

AJ here on a sequence I shot of him last Monday at Greenvale skate park I think (we went to four skate parks through the afternoon/evening and I cant remember which ones were which) Wherever we were, AJ pulled out this rad blunt to lateral pop into the bank in no time at all. Steezin for your pleasing.

Mother Nature At Her Finest

Easily one of the best sunsets I have seen. Never seen a sky like it, so animated. Pretty breath taking. I Then turned around to walk back to the car and saw how clear the moon was through some trees and had to snap that to. Beaut.

Windswept Beauty

Here is another photo for the calender I shot. Windswept and beautiful.
I'd like to say ready for a swim in this fantastic Greek looking pool, but this was a very cold December day in the English countryside. No wind machines or anything like that used, just the natural, bitter, wintry wind.
The wind picked up after a few minutes, caught her perfectly and I snapped this very photo. Don't worry, she didn't suffer to much, We had jackets and hot coffee on stand by, I still felt rather guilty being wrapped up in a big jacket, scarf and gloves shooting this one.

Early Morning Sun

Yesterday morning in Anglesea I was awake at 7.30 and on the beach by 7.35, paddling & shooting photos in the morning sun. It was beautiful, warm, breezy, & absolutely nobody about at all. Perfect. I'm guessing people were still sleeping off Australia day.
Here are the pictures I took that morning.

Anglesea, Angle do

Something a little different today, not photographs BY me, but photographs OF me. Spent the past few days camping at a rad beach side town called Anglesea. Between drinking and beach fun I found some intriguing concrete angles and got some skating done. My cousin Erin Ramsdale shot these sequences of me on my camera and I edited them together this evening.
The first one is a drop in at a seriously treacherous ditch, its cakey, full of holes, long, steep and real, real fast. I hadnt stepped on my board for about a week when we rolled up here, decided to go for it, had it first shot, and then tripped over on the dismount and slammed so hard. Because of the speed I was going I think I was thrown about 12 feet along the bottom of the ditch and now my elbow is a mess. Definitely turned into a "swellbow" now.
The other photo we shot this morning before I left Anglesea on a 4ft mini ramp next to the camp site, this thing was so much fun to skate. Managed to do a fakie 270 to backside smith.

I did shoot some photos myself, but you'll all have to sit tight for those. Wont be long. I promise.

In the city

Here are some shots from a day I went for a wander along Melbournes Yarra River. Was a rather dull day so didnt end up shooting to much.
On my way back to Flinders Street station after swinging by the Crown casino, that I'd pop into the Eureka Tower (the building on the left of the top photo).
Eureka is not only the tallest building in Melbourne, but hosts the highest public vantage point in the southern hemisphere with its observation deck on the 88th floor which provides some damn good views and a great perspective of the city. It is also the worlds tallest residential tower at 92 floors. I sat up there and ate some takeaway noodles I had bought just before going there. Noodles taste better 88 floors up. Not sure why, just try it.

One Evening At The Weir

Some photos from a few day back from a visit to the Weir for a skate. Twisty took us there and I'm glad he did, it is such an incredible spot. I've seen this place in various skate videos in the past and had no idea it's as crazy as it is, the speed you get carving it is a joke, and you still need more if you want to hit the hip properly.
No major tricks went down, we had so much fun cruising it and messing about which was refreshing, no stress over trying to make a trick, just pure fun.
The Photos feature Twisty & Luke getting his cruise on, and Kelly Jane hanging out getting her vodka cruiser on, she's in town for a little while from Ipswich to see Luke. Also one photo Kelly snapped of me after the concretes disagreement with me. I'll be going back there for sure.
If you look close enough you'll see some Neck Face graffiti dotted about.