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I am a photographer. I graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography and this is my blog. I post events, images and other tidbits of weekly life. sometimes funny, sometimes serious, some times. I try to post weekly but I am a busy man. If you want to see more of my work go to www.zachpetschek.com

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Miray



This is an old shoot that I dug up.
All of the images

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HesH SesH 3

What a frickin day. We loaded the quarter pipe in the back of my truck the night before. The next morning when I got on the freeway it worked as an excellent sail. There were only a couple of us there until about 11, so 5 of us were skating. I got broke off 3 times in less than an hour. One of which I thought I was done for the day. It's not often that the sole of my shoe looks up to the sky at the mercy of my ankle and this was just such an occasion.

The Broke crew showed up and ripped. Marcelle Johnson put the hammers down on the quarter pipe. James Washington popped switch heels over a trash can like he was ollieing off a curb. Cory had his glory too with a massive air over the quarter pipe. I'd say it was a success once again. Somehow we plowed through over 150 beers before it was over.

Thanks again and keep checking back for the next session.
HesH Sesh 3


































John Hunt































James Washington: Switch Heelflip













James Washington: Switch Heelflip














Ratty: Backside Flip













Derek Hooker: Heelflip rock fakie































John Snay: Backside Flip































Cory
















James Washington: Hard Flip













Cory: Air over the quarterpipe

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Extreme Flatground

I can shoot flatground skate too.








Here is the website
zachpetschek.com/070623

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Zinga's

Stoked for you Emery and Athena. It was a fun wedding. The party bus rocked. You two are awesome. Sorry for the delay but here they are.

Party Bus







McElroy Wedding

I crashed my car, filled up every memory card I had, all of my batteries died, and was dead exhausted by the end of the day. But damn it was fun.
I had the pleasure of photographing my friend Jenn's wedding. She's a girl that I have skated with in Santa Barbara for over 3 years. Mike and Jenn are a couple of cool people that I hope to know for years to come. Partly because they now live in Humbolt which is half way to Burnside, but more importantly because they are just 2 very happy people and it's cool hanging out with happy people.
Cheers

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I crashed my car, filled up every memory card I had, all of my batteries died, and was dead exhausted by the end of the day. But damn it was fun.
I had the pleasure of photographing my friend Jenn's wedding. She's a girl that I have skated with in Santa Barbara for over 3 years. Mike and Jenn are a couple of cool people that I hope to know for years to come. Partly because they now live in Humbolt which is half way to Burnside, but more importantly because they are just 2 very happy people and it's cool hanging out with happy people.
Cheers

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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Broke on June 24 2007


Steezy pop shuvit down blockbuster's gap *Jared

Nollie Bigspin down a not so small gap. *Oscar


Heelflip Back Fiver, Switch! *James Washington

These guys are dedicated and make skateboarding fun again. It's fun skating and hanging out with them because it reminds me of skating way back when. Here's some stuff that went down on that day.
zachpetschek.com/broke_070624

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

National Go Drinking Day

















At long last, here are the 4th of july photos. Thank you Greg and Derek Hooker and the rest of the family. Everyone else that contributed CHEERS! from beginning to end we endured 15 hours of drinking with about 7 hours of skating. I'm stoked on all the photos and all the memories. I'm sorry it took so long but I had 700 photos to edit in between the rest of my life. Here are a few samples. The rest are at zachpetschek.com/july4th2007

Element Premiere












Element video premiere on go skateboarding day

Friday, July 6, 2007

Taste of the 4th


Weekend with HesH

June 7th was the Transworld 25th anniversary/awards ceremony/new video premiere for "Let's do this". Paul and I drove from San Diego to Hollywood to meet Michelle who was coming from Santa Barbara to meet us there. 3 hours later we arrived. LA traffic sucks in case you didn't know.

we arrived and had to park 4 blocks away. I worked well because we found a cool skatespot on the way. Waiting in line we saw Brandon Turner, Anthony Van Engelen (in a cast) hangin out outside. Inside at the open bar Daewon Song was chatting at a table, Dave Coyne wandered around, Andrew Reynolds was in the middle of everything but kept to himself and many random faces in skateboarding. After a few drinks and being star struck we made our way to the amphitheatre to watch the show.

Daewon, Hawk, Hosoi, Jason Lee, Chris Pastras, Muska, and Smolik all announced the awards for this that and the other. Everyone kept paying respect to Shane Cross. It was cool to hear the skate community care so much about the tragedy. The video started and it went well. Naturally my luck would have it, of all people Sammy Baptista stood in front of me with a shorty's crue. If anyone knows the beef I have with that cocky son of a bitch you will understand.

After the video was over we drove to Vegas (naturally) and spent the remainder of the weekend there. My laptop was stolen from my room but I did still have my photos. We skated the Durango Hills skatepark. It is, for lack of a better word, shit. however parts of it can be fun, just have a backup plan. There was beer, buffets, and drunken conversations that I will not give up for anything. In fact I will return again soon. this is a link to some of the photos taken with my point and shoot camera. I will post the good camera photos later.
zachpetschek.com/weekend

thank you for reading until the end