For the past month I haven’t been too interested in photography. Actually, I haven’t been too interested in much anything besides skateboarding. Then two weeks ago I blew my knee and ankle (skateboarding) and since that I’ve spent most of my time watching skateboarding videos in the internet and standing on my board in our living room, listening to the trucks squeak.

I picked up skateboarding last summer for the first time since junior high. I, of course, suck at it too, but this time around it doesn’t matter. I don’t have to take pressure from not learning any tricks and so on. Skating is my happy place where I don’t have to think about school or work or… well, you know, photoshop and lenses.

That’s why I haven’t been too eager to mix the two and start taking photos of skating – not until now, I figure. Skateboarding is amazingly visual sport (and yea, it sure as hell is sport even if you can do it with your jeans on) but even so, I’m more interested in portraying the culture around it rather than the act itself.

These photos were taken three weeks ago at Syyssessarit, an event to close down the season here in Tampere. I only had my camera with me because maybe I was a bit shamed to skate before all the pros so I settled with the next best thing, hah. They’re not the best skateboarding photos but I guess they’re not meant to be either.

P.S.

Jarkko’s last post was our 100th post!! That’s gnarly, as skateboarders say (according to my Thrashers). I’m psyched, as they also say.

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