Ian had come to visit from San Antonio, Texas, for the summer so I wanted to build up a nice little archive of photos from the trip. We travelled two hours on barely any fuel just to get to this one spot with only 45 minutes to skate, film and shoot photos before having to rush back for work. Normally I have a shot in my head when I arrive, but this turned out to be the most boring looking rail around, in the middle of a field with dull brown green colours on a horribly overcast white sky. This meant the only angle that would suit was up close and personal to capture the action. My flashes were set on high power to capture the skater and rail as the aperature was pretty small to at least capture some grey from the sky and keep the image sharp. After trying some conventional fisheye angles from the bottom and top of the steps the shots were coming out fine, but nothing to make the trip worth the hassle. Filming still had to come so we decided to wrap up the photos with one last shot, by walking around the spot with camera-to-eye I finally saw the angle that made the shot. Camera Settings: Canon EOS-1D 1/320s f/9 — Tom McClelland