On Saturday, the 3rd, my Uncle Edgar and I went to Venice Beach to take some pictures. I’ve never been to the graffiti walls on the boardwalk so I wanted to check it out. The walls were pretty cool, but the skatepark drew my attention more, especially since it was the weekend and there was a lot of foot traffic in that direction. This was my first time at the skate park too, so it took some time for me to figure out where to post up. I had my Nikkor 77-200mm Pro Optic lens on me. Had I known that I was going to shoot action shots, I would’ve brought my D7000 camera body to get those quick shutter speed shots…but either way I was happy with the shots I took as my first photo session, and know now what to bring for next time.

There were 2 skaters that caught my attention. They were consistently skating in the same spot so that gave me time to figure which angle I wanted to shoot at. I found 2 good spots…After I snapped a few pictures, I approached the skater in the green shirt to show him a few pictures that I took of him. I had a small conversation with him and his translator. He was visiting from South Africa and told me that he had been skating for 4-5 hours that day. Respect to him for putting in that work! Here are the pictures that I took of both of them- Enjoy!