Tod Swank "The Push" Del Mar 1987 Size:11"X14" in the full pipe at

in the full pipe at Upland's Pipeline Skatepark in the late 1980s

I just posted up in the deep end with a 50mm lens and somehow got this gem

This is my first real portrait of Tony that was half way decent

I shot at least a thousand photos of him over the nine years the park was there

I like how Rodney is mirrored in his shadow

Tod Swank "The Push" Del Mar 1987 Size:11"X14" in the full pipe atI honed my skateboard photography skills in the 80s shooting my skateboarding friends and the guys I worked with in the skateboarding industry. I drove by this shadow in Del Mar under the freeway everyday on my way from the Del Mar Skate Ranch to The Pannikin to get coffee and I always wanted to integrate skateboarding into the light play somehow. I got Tod Swank my friend and photo assistant at the time to skate back and forth until I got what I