Standerd Slides

Subject: Pipe Dreams
Photo: Joey Meddock

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Short Story , Page 100

Let the record show that I have been corrected since this issue has released. This location is Rockpiles Lefts on North shore (or wide left sets at Off the Wall). So there…oops. I made a mistake. I apologize to the surf world.

I visited the Pipeline Masters a few years back while in Hawaii doing a wake shoot for Fox Racing. We we all itching to see the contest in person and to get a chance to spectate the event from the beach.

To this day, this image baffles me. What’s weird is that I don’t remember shooting it. You’d think that happens often with photography but surprisingly, you can remember almost every shot when you take it, review it, then ship and see it in print. It’s like it resurfaces three or four occasions separate from the actual time you press the button.

The water in this shot is packed with surfers. I wanted to get a shot of the waves with nobody in the water and somehow it worked out. I guess they were right behind the lip, on the beach, or in the white water. Who knows, the mystery of this image lives on in my memory bank full of photos…or is it memory bank half empty?

- Meddock

Subject: Air Shasta
Photo: Joey Meddock

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section , Page 37

I took my first trip out to Lake Shasta this past summer with the Hyperlite team. The schedule was normal for most shoots, but this time they heavily concentrated on renting the helicopter for several days so myself and Sean Kilgus could get plenty of shots.

The pilot, David Everson, did an incredible job getting us into the right positions to capture the riders below. I’ll never forget the arial views we saw on those early mornings. The canyons in Lake Shasta look insane when your flying above them. It feels like your in a video game. The riders look like gnats and shooting photos of them feel like your ‘zappin’ em.

When the shoot ended, Dave dropped us off on shore where all the houseboats were parked. After he took off again, he did some ‘fly-by’s’ for the video. Without the extra weight in those choppers, it’s amazing what the pilots can do with them.

- Meddock

Subject: Drowning Creek, Grand Lake, OK
Photo: Della Easton

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section , Page 37

Another shot used in a “Nature” of photography class. After a discussion of different picture planes in the image, this was also taken at an Edgeboardshop event. Tulsa YPO, an organization of executives and CEO’s from Tulsa business’s out for a fun day on Grand Lake for wakeboarding and BBQ. Just so happens a local sea plane pilot keeps his plane in this same creek, Drowning Creek, and was coming in for a landing. My shot, timed at that “decisive moment” Henri Cartier-Bresson, brought into the world of photography.

- Easton

Subject: Silas Thurman
Photo: Spencer Smith

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section , page 31

There is a place, far far away, where the air is fresh and the water is crisp. Many refer to it as the breeding grounds of the Ennen family. This is the San Juan Islands. A beautiful display of islands complimented by ocean water. Sorry, I’ll get back to the point.

This photo was taken in the late summer of 07. Silas Thurman, Mike & Nick Ennen, and I were on a mini-vacation to their San Juan Island house. We wanted to set up a rail in front of their island house. The ocean tides weren’t the easiest to work with. We had one full afternoon to shoot this rail, therefore we had to get it in the water quick. If we weren’t able to set the rail up quickly the tide would come up over the rail and it would then be rendered useless.

Silas had recently taken ownership of a dog named “Gus”. Gus happened to be hanging out with us that beautiful day. Gus on several different occasions tried to swim out to the rail. On one of these occasions I decided to put him on the rail. That’s when Silas had the bright idea of sliding the rail with Gus on it. Silas came in and hit the rail a second late making this picture. Everybody was stoked on the shot. So, here it is.

- S. Smith

Subject: Kevin Henshaw
Photo: Joey Meddock

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section , Page 19

I think this is just one of those photos that speaks for itself. Henny and I went and played during the summer out on a local course in Orlando. We took a few shots on some other holes. Seeing what I saw then, I knew the consistency that golf demands wasn’t going to improve by any means with Henny’s game. However, he IS consistent on occasionally completely missing the ball during his swing. What you can’t see in this photo is how hard I laughed while rolling around on the grass after I looked at the screen on the camera noticing the ball still on the tee with the dirt in the air. Classic.

- Meddock

Subject: Kyle Murphy
Photo: Rodrigo Donoso

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Critique section, Pages 80-81

We went to this spot like five times, no joke , to get this shot. Its not that Kyle didn’t make it happen. It was more like every time we went out we would get kicked out by security.

Oh yeah and there was also a time that it looked like Kyle had stuck the trick for the sequence but he actually dropped the handle. I couldn’t tell because I was pretty far back, and his momentum had carried him all the way up onto land so I moved and tried some other angles thinking that we had the shot. It wasnt untill later that night, two days before Kyle was going to leave to go back home, that we looked at the photos and realized that well, I had F*&%#d up.

So we went back and waited for our bro the security guard who we actually had gotten to know pretty well over the week to leave. Yeah thats right , after so many run-ins with him he gave us the schedule so we wouldn’t get busted. He didn’t care what we did he just didn’t want us doing it while his boss was there watching . I wish I remembered his name cause I would give him a shout out right now. We went right to the spot and knocked it out. I sent in a roughly stitched together copy of this photo and sent it in. They liked it and it made it in. All 21 frames. Persistence pays off.

- Rodrigo Donoso
www.rodrigophotography.com

Subject: Shawn Watson
Photo: Josh Letchworth

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Juice section, pages 8-9

“Welcome to Sports Marketing.” I just felt like saying that because Matty Swanson took us all to The Amazon for the filming of Push Process, and he really likes to say that phrase. Another one of his quotes from the trip was, “It’s not about what you did yesterday, but rather what we’re doing tomorrow.”

The was truly one of the most amazing trips I’ve been on. We had a day of fun planned for every one that we was there. This shot of Brazilian local, Deko, was taken on one of the last days on the Negro after we had traveled 12 hours deep within its belly. We did not see another human for three days straight. Just beautiful stretches of water and a very diverse eco-system. There was no wind, no boats and just miles of water like you see in this shot. The kip rips too. I’ve always been a fan of shooting behind the rider. You don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been. I see where Deko has been.

- Letchworth

Subject: Clouds
Photo: Joey Meddock

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Bonus section , pages 116-117

I went to Lake Tahoe for the first time in the summer of 04 for a Nautique photoshoot. To get the best use out of the light, we started our days really early. Early enough that it allowed us to call it quits well before dinner time.

We went back out for more shooting just after lunch. As we got back out on the water, I noticed this solid white cloud hanging in the distance. For hours, I couldn’t stop staring at it. The cloud never seemed to loose it’s shape like most clouds do. They floated stationary all the way until dark, it was like a painting. I felt like we were on a hollywood set.

After wrapping up early with Nautique, I darted down to the dock of the hotel to set up a tripod and watch the sunset. Each minute that passed, the color gradually got richer and richer. It was like watching a movie, wondering what was going to happen next. Moments like these is why photography is so fun and rewarding.

I didn’t have a wide enough lens to truly capture the “whole scene” so I figured I’d take a three piece photo (hence the tripod). I framed it up, keeping a close eye on the edges of the frame. I panned from right to left, then left to right, guessing where the frame edge would start and end. Once I thought I had it lined up close enough, I shot one frame on the right of the cloud, matched up the edges of the frame for the center photo, then kept panning left for the third shot, allowing me to get the capture the entire size of the cloud.

- Meddock

Subject: Black-White wave
Photo: Brian Soderlind

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Shorty Story, Page 103

I rode my bike over to Byerly’s one day and arrived a little late and everyone was out on the boat. I decided to break out my waist level finder on my old mamiya and try to get some peelers. I shot two shots and went home before they even came in cause I knew there was about seven people out on the boat. I was stoked when one of them came out looking like a fun right for an ant!

- Bear

Subject: Ride-with-the-pros weekend
Photo: Della Easton

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section , page 35

This photo was taken at an Edge Boardshop Event (www.edgeboardshop.com). Ride-with-the-pros was the event, and Nick and Sonya came out and did lessons and demonstrations for a large crowd, boats tied up, party in the parking lot etc. I saw the form and narrative behind this shot as I was taking a master’s level photography class at Academy of Art, San Francisco. The class was called “Nature” of photography, with heavy emphasis placed on formal elements leading to a hierarchy in a photo. What you don’t know is that Lauren, the girl in the photo is watching a number of kids jumping on a water trampoline, just beyond her, for hire.

- Easton