I thought I was finished shooting for the day, and was trudging back to my hotel, when I heard the roar of a skateboard in the distance. I followed the sound, and discovered a young man using a sidewalk leading to a warehouse loading dock as a skateboard run. The warehouse itself offered a clean, unifying background, and the canopy over the loading dock provides a strong diagonal shadow as a counter point to the diagonal thrust of the steps below it. All I needed to complete the image was this final diagonal – formed here by the raised arm of the skateboarder as he floats through the air over the jagged diagonal of the steps. I have seized a moment in time here that stops movement, creates geometric coherence, and offers crackling tension in the negative space between the skateboard and the steps.