Feliz Navidad!

I'd just like to say Merry Christmas to everyone! I was too busy setting up/playing my new Xbox360 (HALO 3 EDITION!) to take pictures. Well, I take that back. My dad bought me a new 18-55mm lens (the kit lens for the Nikon D40 and D40X), so I took a couple of pictures. I'll get around to posting them up sometime :)

Pics from today: 12.22.07

Today was a good day. I got to ride with Bargo and Sean, which was cool, since I hadn't rode with Bargo in like six months.

1. Gangstas- Just a photo I took of Bargo and Sean while they were talking about some trick

2. Sky- The weather today was kinda weird. It started out super bright, and then these clouds just started moving in out of nowhere. This was taken as the clouds were first showing up.

3. Sean- what a goof.

4. Sean, whip air- This is a ridiculously hard trick on that ramp, because it's just a launch ramp, and it's hard to keep your bike in the ramp when you try to air it. To make matters more complicated, Sean decided to throw a tailwhip into the mix.

5. Bargo, footjam- Bargo doing a footjam in the middle of a line. I'm diggin' the sky in the background.

6. Bargo, tombstone whip- Bargo decided to throw down a whip from the quarter to the bank over the tombstone.

7. Sean, lookback- Lookbacks are one of my favorite tricks, and Sean lays one out in perfect form.

8. Bargo, tombstone whip- This is just another angle of Bargo doing the tombstone whip.

Cody Gay and a couple of pics from Frankfort

This is Cody Gay. Yeah, his last name is Gay. Cody likes to hop over everything. See exhibits 3-8 if you don't believe me.

1. & 2. Cody- these were a couple of pictures I took while we were eating in Lexington Center during one of our street sessions.

3. Fish hop- For some reason, Fish wanted Cody to hop over him. So, of course, Cody did it.

4. Bush hop- bush hop, 'nuff said.

5. Parking lot gap- this was just a fun little gap from a higher parking lot to a lower one. Nothing extraordinary.

6. 3 set with flat- This little three set was right next to the parking lot gap. There's a flat on the end, so it's like around a five set in length. The worst thing about this spot is these little plastic poles that are stuck into the ground in line with the rails, I guess to keep people from griding them, but can be potentially hazardous if you manage to mess up on something easy, like hopping the stairs.

7. Wall hop- Cody was nervous about doing this one. The hop over isn't hard, because on the other side, the wall is like a foot and a half high. But he wasn't sure about the three-plus foot drop that you see here.

8. Rail hop- This is a six-stair rail in Frankfort, KY. The coolest thing about this spot is the landing- the ground around this building is a bunch of huge removable pieces, and underneath it's semi-hollow, so when you land it makes this really weird sound.

9. Mike Dilts, wallride- This is under a railroad bridge in Frankfort. It had been raining before we came into Frankfort to ride that night, and so this wallride was soaked. To make it even better, there was this random yellow rail about three feet from the wall.

10. Dilts-E, icepick

Children At Play trailer

This is a little trailer that I put together for a video me and Dilts-E are working on. I'm not sure if we're going to do it by parts, by spots, or just random riding footage... Actually, I'm kinda digging a random riding footage format, now that I think about it.
Anywho, the video should include riding from:
Cody Gay
Kyle Ruschell
Evan Ruschell
Mike Dilts
Me
and probably some other people...

Enjoy!

Children At Play promo from Transitions on Vimeo.

Whateva

Short post today!

1. Mike Dilts, tabletop- Taken with my first digital camera, an Olympus point-and-shoot. This picture was learning experience, because it was the first time I had ever messed around with Photoshop, so I just decided to use this picture to play around with and get a feel for what I was doing.

2. Ty Fite, 50-50- This one was taken from the middle of a sequence I shot of Ty doing a 50-50 on this handledge/hubba thing at our skatepark.

3. Sam Mullins, huge stiffy- This photo really doesn't do any justice to seeing Sam do this in person. He had to have been getting at least five-and-a-half to six feet of air that day, but actually being there and watching him, it looked like it was 20 feet.

More Random Photos

1. Old Growth- I shot this photo for Apple's Insomnia photography festival/competition. This is in an old, run down house in Georgetown, with grass growing on the second story floor.

2. Wyatt- Sean Baker had taken a bunch of us to Ollie's skatepark, and we ended up getting back late and staying the night at Sean's house. This was the next morning, after everyone except Sean had woken up and ate out of a bag of potato chips laying on the counter.

3. Abandoned classroom- This is one of the rooms inside the abandoned Sadieville school. The place was a mess, with chairs, desks, big hunks of paint, and who-knows-what-else strewn everywhere.

4. Sunset- I shot this from the second-story deck of a restaurant in Beaufort, North Carolina while eating dinner with my family waiting for the Fourth of July fireworks to start.

5. Cody- Just a random photo I took one night sitting in my driveway after we had been riding.

Woodland pictures

Here's some pictures I shot at Woodland skatepark in Lexington about a month ago. Cody, Joe Tabor, Ryan Weeks, and I hit up Woodland for a little bit before heading out to see what we could find on the UK campus.


1. Cody Gay, toboggan- Cody has t-bogs on lockdown, and he'll throw them over/off of anything.

2. Joe Tabor, wallride- This was taken as everyone was leaving the skatepark to go ride street. Joe was just messing around, talking about getting a picture of a wallride, so I just took one.

3. Joe gives his tire some elbow love- Joe was doing these tire grabs out the mini into the bank (you can get a better idea of the setup in Cody's t-bog pic), and somehow missed grabbing his tire on this try. He ended up with a skinned elbow and a sweet tread mark.

4. Joe, tire grab- This was one of the first of many tire grabs he did that morning.

5. Joe, barspin- Throwin' the bars in front of a great background

6. Soft focus- for some reason, I randomly shot a picture of Joe. I think it was just so I could shoot the flash off in his face. This was one of those photos that aren't anything noteworthy in color, but when you put it in b&w, it's so much better. I really like the soft focusing on it, which was unintentional, because I wasn't really even trying to take a picture. Let's hear it for happy accidents!

7. Cody, his dreads, and the other guy- Cody had taken that rasta beanie with the fake dreads sewn in from my house, and had been wearing it the past couple of days when we went riding. People thought it was his real hair, too. I realized this when Cody took it off, and then about five minutes later, I heard a kid say "Didn't that dude have dreads a minute ago?" I have no idea who that other dude in the picture is. I've seen him at Woodland before, and he and his sister are both really cool, but I don't know either of their names.

8. Waldo- We kept calling this kid "Waldo" because he was wearing this black beanie that looked like it was straight out of a "Where's Waldo?" book. Waldo almost got himself in a fight when he complained that Joe was "blocking up the park" with his bike. Hilarity did ensue.

Random Portraits

These are just some random portraits I've taken. Besides shooting BMX and skating, I really like to take pictures of people when they don't know that they're having their picture taken.


1. Taylor- Taylor, Cody, Rodney, and I were riding this little dirt jump cut into a small hill, and Taylor was trying 360's or something out of it when he fell and tweaked his wrist, so he sat down and lit up a cigarette. I was up in a tree taking pictures, and he looked up at me right as I hit the shutter button

2-3. Rodney- For some reason, Rodney and I were riding these tiny ledges behind the Family Dollar store, and I just decided to take a couple of pictures of him.

4. Pap- This is my grandfather, while we were eating in the dining room of the inn at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill.

Wyatt Hoffman, Dry Ridge Park

These were shot at the Dry Ridge, KY skatepark either going to, or coming back from a trip to Ollie's skatepark in Florence.


1. Crailside- Wyatt was looking at this little transition/bank setup and was like "Biddle, get a picture of me crailsliding this." I love the way crailslides look, and this was no exception.

2. 360 flip- This was one of the first shots I took when we got to the park. Wyatt, Beau Barnett, and Steve-O Pate were hitting up this Euro gap. They were just ollieing up it, and then out of nowhere, Wyatt throws down the tre flip.

3. Tailslide- This was the last picture shot before we left. This was right after Wyatt had done two or three crailslides, and was like "Let me tailslide it a few times before we leave." As I'm getting ready, Sean Baker's yelling out of his Suburban that we gotta go, but Wyatt wasn't happy with the first one or two tries, so he tries it a couple of more times, and the whole time Sean's hollering at us about how he's gonna leave us if we don't hurry up. Actually, I think he did drive off, and then circled back to get us.

Ryan Weeks

These are a couple of shots of Ryan Weeks while riding the University of Kentucky campus.

1. Footjam on the James K. Patterson statue- Ryan, Cody Gay, Joe Tabor, Kyle Ruschell, and I stopped by to ride this statue for a few minutes. It's nothing amazing, but it's a fun little setup, with all four sides banked up to a little skate-stopped ledge. Ryan did this footjam right as a bunch of parents and their kids came by for a campus tour.

2. Whip down the Mining & Mineral Resources five set- We stopped to hit up this bench/ledge thing (you can see part of it right under Ryan's front wheel), and Ryan started talking about whipping the stairs. First try, he got it clean, but I muffed up the picture when I messed with the focusing, so I got him to do it again, just so I could get a decent picture of it.

B&W pics

So, I decided that for the new site's first post, I'd start off with some black and white shots. These are some of my older photos that I shot before I even had my own camera, when I had to borrow the Journalism department's Canon Rebel. All of these were taken at the Georgetown, KY skatepark.

1. Sean Baker boostin' a quarter- Sean wanted me to get a picture of him airing this quarter, just so he could see how high he was getting. This was like the third or fourth try, and in color, the picture wasn't anything special, but when I converted it to b&w, I loved it. I don't know why.

2. Sean, spine transfer- This was just a random shot of Sean flying over the spine in the middle

of one of his lines.

3. Bryan "Chico" Nichols, backside flip- I was sitting around after my chain had snapped and was just shooting some photos of Chico playing SKATE with Wyatt and some other guys. This one is one of my favorites.

4. Wyatt Hoffman doing nothing special- This was another random photo. Wyatt was messing around one day doing these little stall-type things. He was saying something about Chris Haslam, but I don't know. This picture came out a lot better than either of us expected. In person, this move looks kinda dumb, and we weren't expecting it to look much better. Suprise, suprise.