ONE Staff / May 18th, 2009 / Uncategorized
PHOTO JOURNAL: Adam Morris #6

Michael Froemling * Backside Royale

Not five minutes after saying, “I don’t want to skate a drop rail,” here was Michael Froemling skating a drop rail during an unexpected detour. Surely when he spoke he’d been thinking of a much easier spot than this aluminum deal with wooden planks for a runway, steps and landing. But it didn’t faze him…

When we parked our cars at this museum, I figured we wouldn’t last long. There were tons of people, and big windows overlooking the rail made us easy to spot. After considering the potential bust factor combined with the racing winds, I left my strobes in the car. I wanted to be inconspicuous, and I definitely didn’t want the gusts sending my lights on a fatal fall.

I locked in my new Canon 20mm f2.8 wide angle lens (which becomes about a 35mm focal length on a 1.6x crop-factor camera like mine), picked an angle, and let the sun overhead and the light bouncing off the ground do their work.

Well, we didn’t last long, but it was our choice to leave, not theirs. — Adam Morris

Discussion / PHOTO JOURNAL: Adam Morris #6

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  • nick korompilas - May 19th, 2009

    this came out dope! love the loose compo/ vignette… really sick trick as well

  • Pabst - May 20th, 2009

    Hardcore Brazil once stated and I quote, “its not a drop rail, its my destiny.” Ya’ll are sick in the head.

  • Brian Krans - May 20th, 2009

    Morris that rules! Great angle man. Mike just pops out of the picture!

  • R.I.P. Upside Down - May 21st, 2009

    I remember back in the day when Universal Skate Design was known as Upside Down. Now I know this b a bit off topic but why change a good thing? Maybe its just me but my patience is running short for this type of nonsense.

    People kneed 2 start realizing that IF ITS NOT BROKEN DONT FIX IT. It seems like the industry is heading a bit in this direction so I had to submit my thots. Im the white rabbit.

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