Shooting World Cups professionally has been quite the fast-paced adventure. It’s a concoction of unpredictable weather, late nights, and lots of bread and cheese for the better part of the year. During a standard World Cup weekend, it’s not unheard of to bank 10k photos into the overworked hard drives. The reality about being shutter happy with high frame rates is that we rarely get to relive the drama that unfolds over those four intense days. Once photos are submitted to the teams’ Dropboxes and our recaps are up on the web, we’re usually hurried off to the next location. As you can imagine, it can be quite hectic to say the least.
I began shooting film simply because I was influenced by the stack of Transworld Skateboarding and Thrasher magazines I had collected as a young teen. We had a little neighborhood crew going and my parents let me use their old Minolta X-700 with whatever rolls of film we had hiding behind the cheese in the fridge. The local grocery store still had a one hour photo lab at the time – we would skate, shoot, and review in the same afternoon. As you’d expect, both the skating and the photos were horrible. Still, I kept trying different techniques as we looked for different ways to terrorize the neighborhood with our ratty boards.
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