Kyle Jackson, 2007.
Some more action over the ever-popular death rail.

Kyle Jackson, 2007.
Bluntslide down the death rail on a Saturday afternoon.

John Ribes, 2007.
Going clean over the rail in Mount Pleasant.

Chris Thul, 2007.
Ollie over the sketchy death rail - I wouldn’t touch it either.

Chris Thul, 2007.
He pulled these smooth all day long. I snapped this one near the catch.

Austen Heard, 2007.
Just a nice boardslide on a cloudy day.

This image was made from a scrap pile shot. The flash didn’t fire, but something about that active sillouette is still cool.

Jay Meyer, 2007.
A solid kickflip over the box.

More contact sheet fun. This is Ian Davis with a huge transfer under the covered halls of ye old Carmel High School, circa 1989. Those Midwestern winters would have been much longer had we not been allowed to skate there.

I’ve been scanning old contact sheets, and this grungy role of skating from downtown Indianapolis looked so cool. The stop bath and fixer are still visible on the paper, and have given it subtle color over the years (this sheet is from around 1989). I was a total slob in the darkroom - a teenage skater working with chemicals in the dark is never a good idea.

Oh, and I’m pretty sure that is Andrew Wood popping off a concrete ledge.

This is a detail from a scrap shot, but i thought it looked cool.
So, what color would you say his eyes are?

Chris Thul, 2007.
Popping a 50-50 off the end of the rail.

This kid is getting good, and his name is Chris Thul.
You can check him out on YouTube, or see some stills here.