Archive for March, 2007

More Skate Pics

Posted by zhx on March 4th, 2007 filed in All, Photography, Skateboarding

With skate photos, seems that if I capture “the moment”, the composition is all wrong, and if I get the composition, I miss “the moment”. I have a bunch of brilliantly framed photos of people flying through the air 10 feet away from their board, and some horrible photos of the best tricks. If I [...]

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New Lens! (And other Stuff)

Posted by zhx on March 2nd, 2007 filed in All, Photography, Skateboarding

(9:43:56 PM) Mom: check will be in the mail tomorrow, be sure to spend it on something frivolous
What, you mean like a Nikkor 10.5mm Fisheye?!
This is it. This lens is pretty much THE lens for skateboard photography. This is Nikon’s latest and greatest, sharpest and fastest fisheye, and is pretty much the lens that’s being [...]

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Gotta Find a Second Job

Posted by zhx on March 2nd, 2007 filed in All, Blog Entries

So at first my new job was pretty sweet. I got to sit at a computer all day and play around in Indesign and Photoshop, listen to my iPod, and ignore everybody. I knew it was a part-time gig when I started, but four eight-hour days a week still added up to a decent paycheck. [...]

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