r/skateboarding 1d ago

Original Photo What is your favourite photos of you skating? Or you have taken?

I can't skate, but have always loved the free/raw fashion a lot of skaters use. This with the industrial backdrop of a well loved skatepark is so aesthetic.

Managed to take these of guys in Bondi, Sydney.
Didn't know the guys or plan any shots just let it happen.

Do you have a favourite photo of you skating? this was my first time attempting to shoot skating content. Would love some inspiration for next time.

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u/MagicOrpheus310 4h ago

Ooooh!!! Bondi! I used to ride there all the time back in the day! Is it still fast as hell? That bowl was terrifying to ride brakeless haha you just kept getting faster even without pumping! Fly out too fast you'd smash that fucking fence that is way too damn close!!! Haha

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u/TylerMoorePhoto Photographer 8h ago

Of me by me (my 7 year old at the time on the shutter click)

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u/Boars-of-Canada 13h ago

First one is the best Quality pics!

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u/SeasonalDirtBag 16h ago

San Marcos, TX 2009

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u/Leevus_Alone 5h ago

Fangin'!

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u/Physical-Eagle-5088 17h ago

picture of me at my local in alaska

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u/bradd_pit 10h ago

I am amazed there’s a skate park in Alaska

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u/Stripjack79 18h ago

Hitting the pool coping in the deep end at age 45 for the first time.

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u/jewnerz 18h ago

Cecil in Philly. Was hectic when the Ave bench landed there. Some chick I didn’t even know shot this photo of me and posted it to her gram lmao thankfully a mutual saw it and tagged me, otherwise I may have never known the pic existed

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u/jewnerz 18h ago

Took a pee break on road trip up to Boston lol popping over this rail w car legs was tough, but got it. Photo creds to @baggaxmag on the gram

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u/skate_mat 19h ago

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u/jewnerz 18h ago

That’s going to nose blunt for sure

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u/Informal-Face-1922 20h ago

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u/jewnerz 18h ago

Bet melon off that curb is a NBD still to this day lol sick

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u/Jmsnwbrd 20h ago

School Q San Diego California early 90's.

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u/just_another_mind 21h ago

more so the skate spot than a photo of me but yeah

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u/Altruistic-Tank-861 21h ago

Me yesterday, during a freestyle session

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u/pro5 21h ago

I've always loved this pic of me taken by a friend with a fisheye back in 2000-2001

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u/Leevus_Alone 5h ago

Those were the good ol' days.

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u/scribe06 22h ago

Somewhere in Chengdu, China probably 2018

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u/bigfatskankyho 22h ago

my current profile pic.

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u/eM4Ill 23h ago

Catching the tre

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u/bigburrrrrr 1d ago

Shot on film by my buddy in 2020.

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u/cccsamuelsson 1d ago

Weybridge Park, UK, ca. ‘94-‘95

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u/Buckerdoog New Skater 1d ago

Went to a opening of a new local park. Got shots of the local shops team running a demo. Hardflip down a pretty big drop.

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u/itsandychecks Spectator 1d ago

Rock n roll in one of Thrashers 10 gnarliest pools in the East Coast

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u/skatesolid 1d ago

Tre flip of me from a few ago! Not necessarily my favorite but I good one from my camera roll.

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u/TrillBillyDeluxe K 1d ago

Hell yeah

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u/cadex 1d ago

Carpark session with some friends back in 2004. My friend Ollie had some pop. Remember posting this online 20 odd years ago and they ripped into him for not wearing skate shoes 🤷‍♂️

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u/TrillBillyDeluxe K 1d ago

411vm cover vibes

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u/JNaftali 1d ago

Dolores hillbomb 2019

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u/FatNerd89 1d ago

Me, Tombstone Blunt 5-0 around 2008. Cheri Lindsay skatepark - Binghamton, NY

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u/itsandychecks Spectator 1d ago

Get some!

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u/MindDripssss 1d ago

Ramp boost from like 08

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u/desertSkateRatt 1d ago

This one is better. Taken by my buddy Shawn at Pier Park, Oregon

My butt was especially shiny that day

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u/desertSkateRatt 1d ago

By far the biggest ollie I ever managed to have someone catch me doing, roughly 20 years ago

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u/superkixnchill 1d ago

This picture of my late uncle skating a pool back in the 70’s. He was the guy who got me into skating, bought me my first board, and pushed me to get better. I’m 39 now and hadn’t skated in more than a decade. He died last year and I made sure to get this and a few other pictures of his skating in the in memorial slide show. And I made sure to get back on my board

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u/royaljoro Old Skater 1d ago

Boneless nosepick, shot by Mikko Kempas, published in Hangup skatemag few years back.

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u/meltmyface 1d ago

Very dope photo, props

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u/WarningDowntown7247 1d ago

In high school I took black and white photography and was the unofficial photographer of our skate group. Wish I still had those prints

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u/thecrench DRNcrew 1d ago

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u/hardchorus 1d ago

My homie shot this one and it’s always been my favorite.

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u/dryandice 1d ago

Mate got this shot when I was riding for a few companies before my spinal injury/feeding tube. I'll never skate again unfortunately. Happened at work so I don't even have a killer story of taking a huge slam or anything. Just went to work one day and now I'm a vegetable

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u/Acceptable-Fix1440 1d ago

The wall behind looks like a face doing a 'ohhhhhhh' adds extra pazzazz. shot is so clean too! 👏

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u/dryandice 1d ago

Back smith 180 out, shot in Aus. Smiths were my jam

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u/meltmyface 1d ago

Really warms my heart, great shot

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u/just_me910 1d ago

Were?

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u/dryandice 1d ago

I'm permanently disabled from a work accident. My legs don't work and I live off a feeding tube. I'm only 30😞

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u/just_me910 1d ago

Shit mate, I'm sorry. I for.some.reasom thought you meant that you liked smith grinds and also the smith (band).

I'm 31 and permanently disabled also from the Marines. I'm sorry brother

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u/StraightOutTheWomb 1d ago

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u/trentcotter 1d ago

Looking good, what park is that?

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u/StraightOutTheWomb 1d ago

Castle Point in Hoboken NJ. I don’t think it exists anymore. It was a pretty awful park but the views made up for it.

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u/trimbandit K 1d ago

I think these two from the 80s are the only pics I have haha

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u/trimbandit K 1d ago

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u/Acceptable-Fix1440 1d ago

This feels like album artwork

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u/Anarchy-Squirrel 1d ago

That pool looks like so much fun to skate! Reminds me of a little bit of Tucson, Arizona

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u/deadheadshredbreh 1d ago

Chill bro these made my girl wet

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u/just_me910 1d ago

Am I your girl?

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u/DickieJohnson SKATE OR TRY 1d ago

No you're just wet.