Sunday Sequence

Ahhh, the good old days of the Bristo comps. The weather always seemed to be good and it was amazing how many people would show up.
Maybe next year........

Ferg takes this kickflip to the flat circa 2001

Aberdeen and Glasgow

I havn't been able to film much in a couple of weeks now, the weathers been pretty terrible and the cold dosen't help either hence the lack of updates footage wise. However in the meantime watch this really good edit by Alex Craig. Features John Rattray, Div, Callum Barrack and more.



Merry Christmas!

Jack Attack!

Look how small Jack Richardson is in this photo. I shot this around 2002/2003 when Bristo was a melting pot for young talent and producing some seriously good young skaters. Jack was one of the first kids that started getting good, noticeably good.
I wish he still skated now, he was always up for a game of S.K.A.T.E and fun to have up at Bristo.
Good luck with the Poker career!

Back in the Day

This is from around 2001-2002. I've got so many photos from around this time, most are crap but a few are worth a second look. I'm pretty sure this is the one and only time he's done this trick.

Stew Graham - 360 Stalefish - Livi.

Queen Of The Deen

On Saturday the 6th of December the Queen O’ The Deen 2008 took place. Each team filmed for a month and produced a final edit. Here's Carluke's Colin Young's entry. Includes plenty of Wu Tang and a naked Shezz among other skateboarding challenges set ! Check it out..


Queen O The Deen - Team Wu-Tang >>

The Kingdom

You can find this handrail in The Kingdom of Fife. I can't remember if it's in Kirkcaldy or Glenrothes, but i know for a fact that Bobby Baillie is the only one who's skated it.
I always have low expectation when skaters want to go to a rail, it usually ends up not happening for some reason or other.
Bobby always seems to deliver though, when he's on it he's proper on it.
It didn't take long for Bobby to knock out a front board



Morbid even got it on film.
He told me after that he wanted to come back and crook it.



Done!

Whats next on his list?

Shetland Matthew

When a new year of Uni starts in Edinburgh it brings with it a few fresh faces. Some get stuck into the 'i'm away from home let's party', not Matthew, he gets stuck into skating.
Nollie 360 flip - mini Macba.

Unit skatepark

Few clips of Andy White skating some of unit23 skatepark a few weeks back.


Andy Skating Dumbarton Winter >>

Back in the day!

I've been busy scanning loads of my old negs for this blog, some good, some not so good. I'll be posting up some of my first photos, travel photos, and photos from all around Scotland.

I'll start the ball rolling with an Ali Lowe medley!

Document

Cheers to Sam Ashley at Document for posting up my Flickr link on their website

check it out!

www.documentskateboard.com

Under The Weather

Yesterday Brandon, Tom and myself went to Transgression skatepark in Edinburgh. Apart from Brandon almost crashing the car we had a pretty productive day and got alot of footage. Sadly Graham couldn't make it out due to being ill so in an attempt to make him feel better i've put this together. Enjoy..


Grahams Ill Edit >>

Bristo Square

Some footage filmed this summer from the Bristo heads.

Blantyre and Ek

Adam Obyrne skating Blantyre and East Kilbride skatepark.


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Slow Mo Mo Fo!

Some nice slow motion footage from Kelvingrove skatepark in Glasgow. Remember what skating in a t-shirt was like?

Shift & Tilt

I've never been one for using Photoshop for other than the basics. But at the thought of having to fork out £1000 and upwards for an adaptor to give a shift and tilt effect, i thought i'd save the money and try it in Photoshop. Shift and tilt effect is basically a selected focus on your photo, and is usually associated with Large Format photography. It changes the depth of field of your subject and can create a different look.
It's ideal for long lense shots like this one of Focus team rider Bobby Baillie.
(incase your wondering, that's his own backyard ramp)

Wallman

If you've been to Livi recently you'll see that Stew Graham and Benson have made the back wall skateable. I use the word skateable very loosely here, what they've done is dumped some concrete on the lip of the back wall and made a wallride gap. It's rough and sketchy as hell.

Not for Benson though

Fresh Marble

Met up with Matt for a skate today, went to Foxspot then down the road to a new-ish marble ledge spot thats just become skateable. Was pretty good apart from the abundance of dodgey characters about tonight, also note the double set in the background of the second clip is completely skateable. There's just a gate seperating you from the run up, use a bit of initiative (buzzer) and you'll have it open in no time.


Blog Entry 3 >>

Same spot, different day

A bunch of Glasgow guys came through yesterday to shoot some photos and film. Some good tricks went down, here's a little taste. Brandon Ide 5.0.

Freezing!

I Went out this evening to film at the Mitchell Library an a few other places in the freezing cold, quite a few people were in attendance, Andy Smyths bench included. Earlier that day a few of us went to check out the new "quarter" in Partick aswell. Here's the results..


Blog Entry 2 >>


In addition I was also sent some footage of a Scott Ramsay, theres some film of the new bowl at blackpool among other spots. Here it is..


scott ramsay >>

Beans

The nights are fast closing in, as is the crap weather. Shot this last week of Focus's favourite lurker.

Tom Footage

Heres a few clips of Tom from a couple of summers ago.


Tom Footage Focus Blog >>

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