Believe it or not, I’m alive. I can’t believe that it’s been about 2 months since my last post!? Ya, I’ve got no excuse, just no motivation (or pictures–what are words without pictures?).

Well, last night, I finally took some pictures that I can share with you. Unlike the last set of photos of Duncan and Stephanie’s engagement shots. Those came out awesome, by the way. We were all really stoked on them!

I’ll post them up after they have sent out their invitations.

So for now….BMX!

Let’s start with the Adam show, he was the only person riding (since Stephen was shooting too).

I did manage to get a few of Mr. Horrocks before hand…

We went to the ice skating rink on Market Square just before lunch and met up with Stephen, Mica, Anna and Ocean. I was so excited because they have funnel cakes and other carnival-like food. I didn’t plan on skating, I knew the shoes/boots would hurt my leg. That left me as photographer, luckily though, I was accompanied by Stephen (photographer #2).

It probably looked kind of ridiculous, two dudes with major cameras to take pictures of people ice skating, but who cares?!

It was fun and everyone had a cold, good time. Shauna especially, she was so excited to go and even more so once we got there.

We finished it off with lunch at Tomato Head (always awesome!) and then got Mason a bath. All-in-all, a good wholesome Saturday! (cheeseball, I know)

Anyway, before his neighbors got home we shot a few off. Then we ate. Stephen made some darn good burgers! I love cooking out. I can’t wait to do it here. Anyway, while still using the 70-200 from work, I snapped a few of the kids blowing stuff up. Ahhhh, the good ol’ days.

On a side note, I cut my grass for the first time today. Our back yard is rough… And apparently, the previous person welded. Well, they had a crap ton of old welding rods, though none of them were used. They were just buried in the yard. So maybe he just like burying things…who knows?

Stephen manning the grill

The rest…

Anyway, I finally took a few minutes to ride my bmx. This of course resulted in me taking a few pictures with the borrowed lens. This is the first time in a while that I have truly hurt after riding, I think between lifting boxes and moving stuff around for the past week, it didn’t take much real physical activity to completely wreck me. Ugh, even after some advil and a few hot showers I still hurt. But then again, the built-in shelves we built today only made it worse. More on that tomorrow…on to photos.

I really like this shot, Stephen looked seriously determined

This spot is one of my favorites, I have taken quite a few photos and riding here even more!

Since moving into the new house, we haven’t had to keep Capone is his cage. He has found a new spot to chill all day. Lucky for him, because the day he tears up the couch, or anything for that matter, he will have to go back to the cage. Here he is doing what he does almost 90% of the day… (we clean this at least once a day)

Stephen had mentioned going to the Butcher Shop wallride earlier, so we headed there after leaving the skatepark. This place makes me wish I was left-foot-forward or that I could do opposite wallrides.  This is the most perfect setup to boost a huge wallride. Unfortunately, us righties will just have to bitch and moan. It’s still a ton of fun regardless. This is a great spot to just go and goof around. There are a ton of little jibs around…

I did take some photos here, and I even got to work with fill-flash. (Note-to-self: Check your batteries!)

This place is too much fun

I know these don’t really have much use, but i love to stitch together sequences like this. Maybe it is just my love of photoshop…

Stephen was kind enough to snap a couple of me. I got so sunburned yesterday.

here she is in all her beauty

the grips i was talking about

her front end..bwaw chicka bwaw wow

And she’s got gold nipples!

I wanted to do something different with these. a little grunge a little dark.

adam done with the same effects and style

Stephen said he was gonna try to learn tuck no-handers. Well, I would say it was a success.

awesome

Click here to see the animated version…

I took a shit-ton of pictures with the intention of stitching them together to make some cool sequence shots, but most of them were so out of focus that I didn’t even try. I’ll try it again during the day or early evening, that way I can hopefully stop the camera down and get my focus correct. I did manage to get one of Adam that came out so-so.

I also tried to use my flashes since we were the only ones at the park, but my batteries decided to screw me. So I took a couple and then gave up on them. Bastards.

It was fun getting to ride late, I don’t think I have really done it since early winter. I can’t wait for the nice weather!

I’ll start with the only sequence. Adam is going to hate me after this post. Here is one of his many hip tucks

Another angle of Adam hitting the hip. I’ll stop here, but there are a few more in the gallery…

Richard can just about throw a tailwhip anywhere, anytime

Richard can also do pretty fast tuck no-handers

Stephen floats it over the hip. I like this shot.

Stephen with a toboggan

Tim fastplants to fakie with it way stretched out

Tim full-on clicks an x-up

View the gallery here…

I was really excited to finally go back. The weather couldn’t have been better, it was sunny, breezy and great.

Then I decided to see how big of a pansy I could be! I just about let my head ruin my day. So I walked it off and got out the camera to chill a bit.

Here’s to my aggravation…

Here are the jumps. The one’s on the left are the main line and the middle set is still kind of a work in progress>

John clicks a turndown

John doing my favorite, a toboggan

John taking a foot off with a nac-nac

John kicks it the other way. Can-can

John twists it up with an x-up

Corey P with a whip-out

This is what happens when you get two Coreys in one place…