Tony Hawk Goggles Portrait 1984 Del Mar Skate Ranch Photo Pat Ngoho The camera was a Nikon

The camera was a Nikon FM2 with 16mm Nikkor fisheye lens mounted on the top of a mono-pod and equipped with a squeeze bulb shutter release cable

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doing a frontside boneless in the early 1980s at the Shell Bowl in Oceanside

16 x 22" approximate image size on 18 x 24" Fuji Crystal Archive Lustre Paper

Here is an unpublished shot of Tony doing an alley-oop bs air over the channel and Stacy Peralta setting up a shot from below

Tony Hawk Goggles Portrait 1984 Del Mar Skate Ranch Photo Pat Ngoho The camera was a NikonI shot most of my 80s skate photos of my friends (like Tony Hawk) and the hottest skateboarders of the day. Thousands of rolls of film ran through my Nikon and I honed my photo skills daily at the Del Mar Skate Ranch where I worked at the snack bar selling Cokes and Twinkies during the day and sleeping on the pool table at night. I was pretty much living the skate dream back then. I bought these welding goggles in 1984 at a yard sale for $5 and got