Favourite thing for me about this is that it was a chance to print one of those original Mad Dog Bowl pictures, which were originally shot for Skateboard! magazine back in 1978. Jeremy was one of a small group of London skaters who helped me learn how to take skate pictures. Feedback from the skaters (I can remember even doing a slide show on once occasion, for example) taught me what worked and what didn’t. I was also experimenting with multiple flashes, coloured lights and funny effects filter. This shot has multiple lights, one with a yellow filter on it. Others from the same session had diffraction filters on the lens. The filters used to cost a lot of money at the time, so I’d buy one for each month’s issue and then use the money to justify buying another.
Somebody once showed me a comment by Sean Goff, waxing nostalgic about the good old days when photographers like me didn’t use all the multiple lights, tripods and stuff. Although it’s true that I was always horrified by the notion of a photographer getting in the way of the skating in any way, I wasn’t entirely innocent — especially in the early days.
The other picture shows Mike Kepper at Cheapskates.