I’ve been shooting quite a lot of photos with Kanya Spani lately, he’s such a good skater and all round cool guy to hang out with.  I shot this photo of him doing an Ollie over this rail to frontside crooked grind.  I’m actually not sure what it’s called to be honest!  Dressed as a sailor from the Halloween party from the night before and with minimal sleep, he makes it look totally effortless!

These are some photos that I shot of Elliot Sloan at the Maloof Money Cup that was just held recently in Kimblery, South Africa.  I think Elliot is the only pro very skater ever to come out of New York, or at least one of the only, I can’t quite remember!  Either way, his skating and style on the vert ramp had me stoked!  Check him out!

I headed back into the city this last weekend to shoot some photos of the skate contest that Nollie Faith was putting on for the kids.  As always, I was greeted with smiles and giggles and most of the kids couldn’t wait to get in front of my lens!  The contest was a great success and I could see the joy in the kids faces and I just couldn’t believe how excited they were to see their friends competing for first and second place.  I spent most of the day shooting some portraits but also shot some pics of the contest itself.  I’ll have to split the blog posts into seperate parts as there are quite a few photos!  This is the first post.  Enjoy.

I first met Tim at an exhibition I was doing last December, we chatted for a brief moment about some photography stuff and he showed me some of his photos on his phone.  Months later, I was skating the local skate park close to my house and saw him there, carving through the park with the unmistakable style of someone that has been familiar with a skateboard their entire life.  We have since then skated together many times and shared many laughs.  I shot these photos of Tim doing a Melon Grad over his Vespa last Friday, he broke himself and couldn’t skate the rest of the weekend but I’m sure he’ll agree that it was well worth it!  Tim is also an amazing wedding photographer!

Check out Tim’s Photography work at www.timmoolmanphotography.co.za.