Tony Hawk at Cosmopolitan Park, Columbia, MO (10/17/09)

This was the first stop on Tony Hawk's Birdhouse demo tour where they only used Twitter as a promotional tool.

This is one of the first times I've ever shot skateboarding, and the first (and maybe last time) I use Olympus equipment. Letting the camera body have so much of the controls delays the time between pressing the shutter and the sensor bring exposed, making it less than ideal for sports and resulting in a lot of missed moments. I also didn't have a long enough lens for the vert demo, so my shots are on the street course.

Still, it was a fun time I finally decided to at least show these as opposed to letting them rot in my harddrive.