After high school, I photographed a lot of my friends skating. I didn’t see it as a way to make any money. Although everyone wanted pictures, nobody had any money back then. I missed the big picture of magazines, advertising and sponsors.
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I have saved most of the negatives and slides from over 45 years of photography starting with my seventh grade photo class where I got hooked. I recently emptied out my storage unit and came across boxes and boxes of old black & white negatives. Most of the photos are what I call record shots and my hope is that someone will see themselves in these images and that will spark a memory from when we were all a little younger. The following image posts will be random in time and place but each image was a building block on my journey as a photographer, mostly learning from my mistakes.
Stephen Whalen