Photo of the Day

Nate Roline, Backside Tailslide in Montreal.

Jamie's a beast

7 tricks in a day, all bangers... Jamie Tancowny is a beast.


Reward after a hard day's work.

Thank You

Words cannot even express how thankful I am for all the support I've been receiving in the last few weeks since my camera gear was stolen. A Canadian legend and close friend of mine, Chris Kendall, recently made this little Donation thing on his website. Again, thank you so much to everybody that has generously put myself ahead of your own, I can't thank you enough. It's something like this that really opened my eyes to how many friends I have and it's extremely overwhelming what they're all doing for me, either monetarily or simply by a kind thought which is equally as appreciated. Thanks again everybody. More photo posts to follow, hopefully with a new camera too!

- Owen


Chris Kendall, Backside Lipslide on my first roll of film ever a decade ago.

Something is better than nothing

As per tradition, I never update this. Here's a few photos I shot in the last little while:


The city that owes me $30,000


Kevin Lowry, BS 5050 Wally.


Hill Sulpher, Crooked Grind. Toronto.


Hill Sulpher, Backside Heelflip.


Hill Sulpher, Backside 5050.


Hill Sulpher, Backside 5-0 Pop Out.

As per tradition, I never update this. Here's a few photos I shot in the last little while:


Hill Sulpher, Backside Smithgrind.


Geoff Strelow, Frontside Bluntslide.


Geoff Strelow, Backside Overcrooks.


Cam Buchan, Gap Lipslide.


Kevin Lowry, BS Wallride.

Stolen Camera Gear

Somebody went ahead and stole all of my gear on October 6th, 2009 around 8:00 PM in Toronto, ON in front of 65 Clinton St. where we were parked. It was a smash and grab as I had two brand new skateboards in the back seat (DGK Wade DesArmo & Organika Karl Watson) which led the door to them seeing my camera bag which was stashed in the back of the hatch of the vehicle. Here’s what is now missing:



Hasselblad:

500 C/M Body
30mm 3.5 Fisheye lens (slight bend in the hood from boards & scuff on the bottom of the hood from sliding on the pavement)
120mm 4.0 lens
Prism Finder
Waistlevel Finder
120 Film Back

Nikon Cameras and Lenses:

D2Xs Body
D2H Body (SNE162072)
80-200mm 2.8 lens (etched LA Times on lens barrel)
50mm 1.8 lens (516605)
10.5 Fisheye lens (327130)
Tamron 28-200 lens

Flash/Flash Accessories:

Nikon SB-800 flash (x3) (SNE 2503204)
Quantum Q-Flash Model T
Quanutm Q-Flash Model T2

PocketWizard Plus II Transceivers Radio Slaves (x7)
(6129955, 6129934)
10 PocketWizard Slave Cables

Quantum Turbo Z Battery (x2)
Lumidyne Battery

Minolta Light Meter III

Gitzo Mini Tripod
SanDisk CF Cards (x5)
Fuji Provia (x10)
Ilford Delta BW Film (x5)

Garmin NUVI GPS & Cables

Tamrac Wheelie Travel Bag (Black)

Portugal Extras

Head over right here for behind the scenes and bonus photos from my trip to Portugal.

GHETTO VIDEO

Around 10 years ago, before I picked up a photo camera, I was constantly day after day filming a crew of skaters in Saskatoon. Eventually I got into photography and the camcorder sat there collecting dust. The tapes never really got captured, and they more or less a forgotten memory of times past, until now. On this recent trip I'm on where I drove across Canada from Toronto to Saskatoon, I decided it's time to unlock the vault and make this video that has been ten years in the making. It sparked thanks to youwillsoon's Dan Watson's recent Skateboarding Video, and Trent Young's Cosmo4Fylfe2 video that just dropped. So now it's my turn. Here's the teaser below, and trust me, it's GHETTO...but that is how we rolled, and still do to an extent.