Seattle Photography by Matt McDonald
May 30
by Matt in Action, Animals, Landscapes, News, Seattle 0 comments tags: long exposure, seattle, skateboarding, space needle

Seattle Photography: Space Needles, snails and skateboarding

I spent a lot of time during the month of May shooting skateboarding and a wedding and I didn’t have that much time to explore Seattle and capture city and landscape photos, which I love doing. I did manage to get out a few days and here’s a few of my favorite photos from the month of May. An evening at Gas Works Park I drove around Fremont looking for some new photos of the Aurora Bridge and didn’t see anything I liked due to the construction on the bridge. With light disappearing for the day I decided to dash over to Gas Works Park and managed to get two kinda cool photos of a sail boat and the city. What made one of the photos unique was the sun reflecting off of the buildings in downtown hitting the sail of the boat and creating a shadow of the sail. The Space Needle The Space Needle is always around me and I can’t resit capturing photos of it. If there are shoes hanging in front of it, a plane flying by it, a flag on it or just a beautiful sunset more often than not I am going to capture […]
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Apr 25
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2016 Maryhill Ratz Freeride Photos

I spent last weekend out at the Maryhill Ratz Spring Freeride near Goldendale, Washington thanks to DB Longboads. To say the very least it was a damn good time. I captured over 200 GBs of video, but also managed to capture some photos throughout the course of the weekend. These were my favorite photos I have gone through thus far. Feel free to repost the photos just make sure to give photo credit! My Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are all @equalmotion, so a simple (Photo by @equalmotion) is all I ask. If you do not see a photo of you I can always try and track one down and feel free to email me at matt@equalmotion.com. Also, if you are looking for a photo without a watermark or commercial use feel free to email me. Last, but not least, thanks to DB Longboards for sending me to the contest! My Maryhill Spring Freeride Edit for DB Longboards featuring DB team riders Devon Dotson, Spencer Smith and Jonny Yardwaste:
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Apr 19
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Cloud Ride Wheels Slusheez Video

I have been filming with Cloud Ride Wheels team rider Devon Dotson quite a bit the last month and we finally got to release our first edit featuring the Cloud Ride Slusheez. Checkout the edit below and be on the lookout for the next edit. WATCH THE VIDEO: More information: Cloud Ride Wheels team rider Devon Dotson put the new Slusheez to work! The Slusheez are a skateboard wheel that every longboarder needs to try and own! These new 62mm / 78 skateboard wheels are a thaney and slidey freeride wheel perfect banging out those long stand-ups you’ve been longing for. We rounded the lips and stoneground these puppies to make the first few slides even sweeter. Using our magical “Slush” thane we melted the ice to give you a wheel that slides effortlessly but also knows when to dump some thane. [LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SLUSHEEZ] Follow Footage by Jackson Wells and Max Hughes Music by Tribe Called Quest
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Mar 27
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Northwest Trail Series Bridgepins Race

Another Duck Pucks NW Trail series is in the books. People traveled as far from Pennsylvania for this most excellent event (it’s true kinda). Longboards were ridden, I believe people ate cheeseburgers after and only roughly 10 bicyclist were angered by having to share the trail with skateboarders. People are more than welcome to repost these photos, but please give photo credit to @equalmotion (on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc) if you repost the photo. Here’s the top 5 riders: 1. Rain Daley 2. Devon Dotson 3. Adam Little 4. Ryan Villa Thanks to Bradley Cameron for organizing this one again. If you don’t know much about longboarding, but want to learn more about it and live in the Seattle area make sure to stop by Motion Boardshop. The friendly and knowledgeable staff will take care of you for sure. I ran out of time editing photos, so if you were racing and didn’t see one of you I can try and track one down just shoot me an email at matt@equalmotion.com If you are looking for more of my skate photos make sure to checkout DB Longboards, Cloud Ride Wheels and Atlas Trucks websites.
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Jan 25
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Duck Pucks Northwest Trail Series: Snake Hill Photos

Another NW Trail Series outlaw is in the books. Thanks to Bradley Cameron of Duck Pucks and Subsonic for putting on another rad longboard event to get everyone through the winter months. Here are all the decent photos I captured from the event and you are more than welcome to repost these photos as long as you give me photo credit by tagging me (@equalmotion) on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. You can also checkout some of my photos of the DB Longboards and Atlas Trucks websites. Atlas Trucks – Blog Post DB Longboards – Blog Post
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Jan 07
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Ken Griffey Jr. 24 Space Needle Photo goes viral

Welp. I was not anticipating that at all. I did not plan on taking a photo of the Space Needle yesterday and I did not plan on a photo going even more viral than my foggy Space Needle photo before the Super Bowl last year. I was driving home from the the DB Longboards / DB Skimboards shop Wednesday from Tacoma evening and I received a tweet from my friend Mary: .@equalmotion @mattsadventure have you taken a photo of #24 #GriffeyHOF Flag on the Spaceneedle yet? All the ones I've seen aren't so good 😊 — mary d (@marrdozilla) January 7, 2016 I drove a little bit faster in hopes of capturing the last light of the day. I made it home and was not very satisfied with the photo and only posted it to Twitter. And that is where it all started. The Space Needle retweeted me, then the Mariners, then Sportscenter, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and other media news outlets. The Mariners and Macklemore posted it on Instagram and then CNN contacted me to ask if it were be possible to air my photo in their newscast and they did along with it showing up on other networks […]
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Dec 28
by Matt in Action, Video 0 comments tags: california, longboarding, seattle, skateboarding, video

2015 Longboarding Highlight Video

I have now worked at DB Longboards, Atlas Trucks and Cloud Ride wheels for one year. Here’s some of my favorite clips captured for all three companies. Some of the riders featured in the video are Jackson Wells, Devon Dotson, Spencer Smith, TJ Joo, Sean Woolery, Garrett Creamer and a bunch of others in the Whistler section. Enjoy and you can also checkout some of my favorite longboarding photos of 2015 below! Learn More at: DBlongboards.com Atlastruckco.com Cloudridewheels.com
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Dec 20
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NW Trail Series Photos: Sammamish Switchbacks

The first NW Trail Series longboard race out of 6 put on by Duck Pucks is in the books. Simon Sneethen beat two time champ Spencer Smith at Sammamish Switchbacks yesterday and here are a bunch of photos I captured. Here’s all the photos I captured and feel free to use them as long as you give me photo credit and tag @equalmotion on Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr and/or Twitter. If you want high-resolution copies of the photos you can email me at matt@equalmotion.com. Thanks to Bradley Cameron and Duck Pucks for putting on a super fun event. Keep your eyes open for the next NW Trail Series in January. This is the first of 6 races, one a month from December to May, so make sure to check back in January.
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Dec 04
by Matt in Action, Animals, Landscapes, News, Seattle 0 comments

Views From West Seattle

I really enjoy West Seattle. It has a small beach-town vibe, but is part of the city. During the summer I venture to Alki Beack quite a lot to skimboard and longboard. I find myself still going out there in the winter for the views and it’s not nearly as crowded as it is during the summer. I recently went out to West Seattle to longboard, walk my dog Charlie, grab some dinner and capture some photos. As Charlie (the dog) ran around on the beach I noticed some clouds rolling in behind the Space Needle as the sun was going down and started shooting photos. As I zoomed out I noticed a red object appearing in the water. As it got closer I realized it was a man swimming, without a wetsuit, in November. As he ran out of the water I asked him what he was doing and if he wanted a copy of the photo and he said mid-sprint “Preparing for a Triathlon. Not Thanks!” and continued running towards his car. I would have done the same. From what I am told people swimming, paddle boarding and any other “summer” activity you can think of still takes […]
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Dec 01
by Matt in Action, Video 0 comments

Skate Everything in Seattle

Over the past couple months I have been filming with DB Longboards team rider Devon Dotson skating on the Keystone 37″. We hit up a downhill spot near Mount Vernon, but besides that we filmed in the Seattle area. We hit up two skate parks and a couple freeride spots. It was somewhat difficult to film due to all of the rain, but we managed to put together this edit by our December 1st deadline. Hope you like the new video and you can view it below.
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