Dale Travers Photography Blog

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

We spend some time at Stradbroke Island over the weekend for a short birthday holiday for Krisztina. We didn’t get the best weather but it was sunny more than the weather report suggested. Anyway here’s a photo i shot of Krisztina just chillin at the back of our car before going for a surf. No flashes, just a camera and a lens capturing a great laugh. Sometimes the emotional quality of a frame outweighs the technical aspects. Photographed on the 1Dsmk3 and 24mmTS lens..

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

Today’s another photo from Arizona. I loved Arizona while i was there and the skaters were great to shoot and Chad Hornish was no exception. This was just one of those amazing spots they had lined up for the night. It was big and almost pitch black so i had to light it with 3 flashes. Chad was going big also so i chose this angle to show his gap over the rail and distance he as traveling off the top of the stairs and Chad did the rest. The trick was to get Chad very close to the edge of the frame while capturing the take-off and landing. I remember on the first one he went huge and went way out of my frame so after zoom out and estimating how big he was going we nailed on the second shot with a really nice stylish grab.

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

I met Artur Szymocha in while living in London in 07′. Really nice guy from Poland and a hell of a skater. He had tricks for days on anything. He had been skating a very long time and it showed as we went to so many spots and he was extremely comfortable doing just about anything. We skated together for around 2 years while i was there and it was a pleasure taking his photograph. I have no idea where this spot is but he took me there and laced this ally-oop fishbrain down the kink. I went with my basic set-up, Canon 5D on my 70-200 2.8, 3 x 580ex speedlights on PW’s.

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

We are back in Texas today. My good friend Josh Glowicki came out with an edit this week so i though i’d release another photo with him from 09′. We spent a lot of time shooting at night in Texas as i was there 2 weeks, it’s difficult to hit a lot of spots due to security. This is Josh’s old school if i remember correctly. Josh is awesome at skating, i have to say that, It takes me longer to set-up than for him to land the trick. Most of the time it’s first time with him. This Front Torque on this rail was no different.  I used my trusty 15 fisheye lens with 3x580ex flashes. One far right of frame to light wall and rail. One far left of frame so add a rim light on Josh to pop him out of that black back ground and over my head as a fill light to fill in the rest of the scene. I managed to get Josh at the peak of the action and we had out photo. Just managed to get him in my frame but that hand is very close to getting cut off.

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

While in America in 09′ I spent some time with some awesome dude from Texas then we road tripped up the country to Detroit. On the way we had to skate a bunch of places and this was one of them, St Louis! We travelled through this city late afternoon so we didn’t get much of a chance to skate before moving on but we did skate downtown.This rail was perfectly located with the arch in view but seeing it was almost pitch black, I had a run a really slow shutter. Shot with my 5D and only 2 flashes if I remember due to time restrictions. Brady landed this disaster to sweatance from the top step first try…

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

Today is Bristol the in UK. I was asked to come shoot a skate team fora  few days while they traveled around and filmed for a new video. I had the pleasure of photographing this guy, Scott Quinn. This is one of signature moves and he does it with so much style, i had to shoot it. This was taken back in April 2007. Just after i got to the UK. As you can tell, i could have done a lot better with the lighting. My shooting has definitely improved since then. Photographed with trusty 5DMk1 and only 1x580ex flash.

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

Today we are travelling back to Arizona. I was there in 09. As i’ve said before, one of my favourite places in the US. Not only for their amazing skate spots but the people are so friendly and welcoming. Lots of skaters travel through here to film and enjoy the spots. Cameron Talbot just happened to be here when i turned up. This was my first day here and his last. Really nice guy and a pleasure to hang with for the day. He was heading back to Montana and i managed to get a few photos before he left.

We managed to shoot a few spots so there will be more coming out in the future of Cameron on my blog. This top mistrial was at the university. Amazing place to skate and we didn’t get kicked out. Shot with my 70-200mm 2.8 and 3 x 580ex flashes.