Local Exposure Dirty South Tour
Factory Skatepark - Newnan
The plan was for me to leave in time to get to Factory Skatepark a good
bit earlier than the action so I could find a good place to stand and shoot
pictures. Then the plan became to go to Newnan early to hang out with my
boy,Todd,
and jam (and by "jam" I mean "murder AC/DC and Metallica
songs"). Then the plan transmogrified into help The Mrs. hang IKEA
window treatments, get stuck in construction traffic on I-85 south, get
briefly lost because no city in Atlanta Metro can label their streets with
large, clearly readable signs, almost run over Chris Doyle and Biz while
looking for parking (sorry about that guys, really) and walk into Factory
with like thirty seconds to spare.
That plan was much more interesting than all the others, so obviously
I had to do that.
The Blurry Pictures
As I said before, as a photographer I'm a hack. Also my film camera lacks
a lot of control options. Since I shoot primarily digital I had to play
around with the Minolta to get it to take halfway decent pictures. Unfortunately
that lead to these early shots which were a little more, uhm, artistic than
I'd like
Throughout the demo there was this secret mini-ramp session going on. This
is before things got really started. The pride of Alabama (well, besides
me), Cory Martinez, is shown here distorting space and time with his manual/fufanu/tailtap
powers. I can't remember exactly what he was doing as it was a week ago
and I am old.
Steve Nowak:
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- Was a "pro" in "Prowtown, USA" before it was and as
such, randomly knows every pro, ever.
- Always wants me to be "Andruw" (I have an uncle Andrew, and I
even have a cousin David. I, unfortunately, was saddled with the double whammy
of "George Edward").
- In the past year has changed frames as many times as I've changed cars.
- Always says "you can't say that, I'm older than you" when I say
"I'm old." To be fair, he's not that much older than me.
- Helps run atlbmx.com and if you don't go there
you're missing out.
- All of the above
The reason Guettler wins so many contests isn't that he doesn't bail. It's that
he can fall and get up faster than the human eye can perceive.
I don't know who this cat is, but This is Luke Smith he's very, very
fast. I mean, he's almost see-thru.
I don't know who this kid is, but I remember thinking Joey Hill, he goes
pretty high out of a little ramp. So, here's a picture of him going not that
high out of a little ramp. I'm non-sensical like that.
This is the sub-box of doom. It's about two feet tall on the top of a three
foot quarter. As my love, really, is tech tricks I had much pleasure standing
next to, shooting this box. Of course someone less hacky than I would have switched
from the 70mm lense to the 50mm lens. But, besides being a hack, I'm incredibly
lazy. Guettler tailtap.
Guettler fuf. That boy's good.
A trifecta of Guettler goodness. Flair
Chris Doyle transferring from a fourish foot quarter into an eightish foot quarter.
Some randome kid tailwhipped this same transfer. I don't have a picture of it
because I suck.
The idea was pretty simple. abubaca this rail from the fourish foot quarter
shown above. The execution proved a little more difficult.
See, it should've looked something like this. Unfortunately, when it came time
for the rollback it looked like...
This. He did pull it, eventually. Of course I don't have any pictures of that.
I was raised on MTV, my attention span is short.
Next up: How I killed Biz...or at Least Sent Him to
the Hospital