Sometimes...

you just gotta lie down on your back and let dudes shoot boards into your head. 

Gator, Full Bleed Issue TWS, Photo: Grant Brittain

California was made for skating

Aside from a random rainstorm, brush fire or earthquake, California is a skater's paradise.

Andy Mac, Ocean Beach, San Diego.

Photo: Grant Brittain

Keep your bail shots!

Danny Way, 1997, Photo: Brittain

Sinisa Egelja RIP

October 26th is the one year  anniversary of my friend Sin's death

Take a look at these hands

From the hands that bite, 1985, Neil Blender

If you dig skate photos and The Skateboard Mag

Come by the party on Friday

I'm going to Skate Camp!

I will be at Woodward East Skate Camp leading a skate photography workshop in Week 4- June 27th through July 3rd. Go to camp and I will teach you everything I know about photography.http://www.campwoodward.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=156&Itemid=374

Mike Blabac Photography

Mike is one of the best and has the best coffeetable book out there, get it!

The Dreaded Ones

Back in 87 the majority of the Alva team had dreads. Just an observation.
Dave Duncan and John Thomas.
San Diego.
Photo: Brittain

Neil Blender, Grant Brittain and Dave Swift Show, June 5th

Art and Photography at Hensley's Flying Elephant Pub in Carlsbad on the 5th of June.

Anthony Acosta Skateboard Photography

Anthony Acosta is one of the best skate photographers out there and he also rips on a skateboard.
He's one of the young guns that I turn to when I have a photo question, he's got it down.

I save everything

Bails are hot! Lance Mountain at Buck Lasek's bowl, 2010. Click on photo to enlarge, Do It!
Photo: Brittain

I was invited to shoot the Chin Ramp in 1986 and I was hoping to be one of the lucky ones to go up in the helicopter.
When Stacy Peralta asked me if I wanted to go up I did not hesitate. We came in low over the river from the west with Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries playing in my head and rose up over a small berm and witnessed the Bones Brigade members running up to the expansive ramp. The rest is skate history.
Photo: Grant Brittain

Father like son

This shot cracks me up, Chris Miller is totally killing the Baldy Pipe and his son Zach could give a damn. 2004. Photo: Brittain

Skate Photogs

Click hereStecyk, Friedman, Yelland

Skating isn't just about the skating

Tony Hawk, In Studio, 2003. Action photography is just part of it. Photo: Grant Brittain

Haunted Bridge

The only accident I have ever had was on the Bonsall Bridge. It's a pedestrian bridge now. Matt Mumford in the mid 90s.

Happy 2010!

Shoot more photos, that's my resolution. Willy Santos, wallie, Rancho Bernardo, CA. Photo: Brittain