One Step Closer
Subject: Dallas Friday
Photo: Steven Hahn
TSQ Location: Book 1.2, Chronicle section, page 26
Every Spring I try and make my way to Orlando to shoot and visit with old friends. This April I was headed down to Naples to shoot with the GB team just returning from overseas. I had a few extra days to hang out in Orlando so I called up Dallas and asked her if I could crash at her place for a few nights.
Dallas was recovering from a broken femur from the Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup series in Singapore. To me, she looked like the same old Dallas, super fit and always on the go. She showed me the gnarly scar on her side from the tube that was stuck into her chest. I reassured her and told her that scars build character. Now a normal day with Dallas consists of answering a bunch of phone calls in the morning, going over her schedule with her mom Darla, signing a bunch of posters for shops, then off to Sports Specific for a little rehabilitation. Since not a lot of people have seen Dallas since her return to the states, I thought I’d bring my camera along to get a few shots of her on her road back to the podium. I snapped this shop of her doing single leg presses but the photo seemed so telling. “One step closer.”
-Hahn
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