Alex Hallford, 360 flip, A1 Little Chef.
Alex Hallford, 360 flip, A1 Little Chef.
I first saw this spot whilst driving back up North to see the folks. At this time it was a fully functioning Little Chef restaurant that was open from dawn ‘till dusk, so it remained a pipe dream for years… Until one pissed up night in Nottingham when I decided it would be a good idea to get Ian Reece (sober) to drive my car along with Ben Grove (pissed) just in time for the sun to come up, get a photo and bugger off before the Little Chef staff turned up. We got there and it was still dark but the sun was on it’s way up so we flung Grove up onto the roof wet from dew and he started trying kickflip fakies, we shot quite a few and he nailed it so we were getting ready to go when a Landrover skidded into the exit trying to stop us from leaving (it turned out that the manager lived just beyond the trees and had spotted us) He was super hill billy and super angry. We had to mount the grass verge to escape. A close shave. The photo that you see here was a way more gentle scenario. It was getting dark on the way back from shooting some stuff in glorious Rotherham, we drove past the roof and Alex couldn’t pass up the opportunity to give it a cruise. The thing is way too big to light up with flashes efficiently so I had to push the camera to the ultimate limit. He reeled out a bunch of tre flips and I shot away at 6400 ISO. I thought it was a lost cause, but when Snapseed did it’s magic I was stoked…