Standerd Slides

Subject: Adam Lawrence and Brandon Thomas
Photo: Joey Meddock

Location: Book 1.2, Black and White Section, page 66-67

Byerly invited me to take a trip down south to meet up with “Downsouth Dave” and the Miami posse to go ride and shoot for Volume Wakeskate Videos. We found a canal that ran along side of a municipal airport that was completely secluded with nothing but calm water and miles of endless riding.

The tricky part was riding the Sea Doo through the thick of the ghetto and not getting a fishing line stuck in our eyelid or a bullet lodged in the ski. We ducked our way through the multiple low hanging bridges to find this little gem of water way. The bridge Brandon Thomas is approaching was just barely high enough that he didn’t have to duck, but the next bridge ahead was barely above handle bar level. Each time we passed, we had to limbo our way under the bridge making new friends with the fisherman yet pissing them off at the same time. Not really a good place to make enemies, FYI.

- MEDDOCK

Subject: GB Filming for Transgression
Photo: Bess Marine

Location: Book 1.2, Chronicle Section, page 18

It’s funny how life works. This past March I flew down to Orlando to assist Joey Meddock and Josh Letchworth for an assignment from school and with portfolio review looming near on the horizon I wanted to get as much wake footage as possible for my portfolio.

At the end of the week Josh was going to be shooting Keith Lidberg out at the Projects with Ronn for the new Gator wake vid Transgression and allowed me to tag along.

Before leaving for my trip down to FL, one of my instructors from Hallmark had told me to jot down a shot list. Well it’s hard to create a shot list when you don’t know when, where, or who you’ll be shooting. But as soon as I got to the Projects one of the shots I knew I wanted, just as a memento for myself, was a wide shot that captured everything. Being my first time at the Projects I wanted as much of the area in the shot as possible, definitely wanted the chopper and Keith.

Meanwhile though, once the action started, in the excitement of it all I threw on my long lens and started going for the tighter shots. Once I made the decision to switch it up to a wider lens I turned around and saw the image I wanted. But I had missed it. So I waited for Keith and the chopper to make a few more passes until everything lined up just right. To me this shot embodies my trip down to FL, and for the first time really taking the time to wait for ‘the decisive moment’.

- Bess Marine