Panoramic Series #13: Laie Pt. Oahu

This series of panoramas was shot at Laie Pt. which is the North-Eastern most point of Oahu. Beautiful views in every direction.

Kern River WhiteWater

Shooting comercial rafting photography on the Kern River with Kern River Tours. Awesome group of skilled guides that are great to work along side. Anyone who has yet to experience rafting on the Kern River needs to prioritize their life and get in a boat!!! Its killer to photograph and even more amazing to experience with paddle in hand.







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Photographer Profile - ONE Mag

Recently ONE rollerblading Mag did an overhaul on their web site. I now have a profile on the site as a contributing photographer. Check it out!

Photographer - Scott Moffat

Age: 22Location: Kelso Valley, CAYears Blading: 12Years Shooting: 8Personal Statement: Rollerblading has brought a lot into my life and I am glad to have an opportunity to give back through my photography. Having an outlet for my work such as ONE mag is great because now a vast community of rollers can enjoy rolling through my lens. It is up to us in the media to do everything we can to make what we love so much look so good.

Photo Gear

Camera Body: NIkon D300

Lenses: Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 AF-S DX, Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.5-4.8, and a Sigma 50-500mm f/4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM

Lighting Equipment: SB-800 Speedlight System usually on 8' lightstand

Extra Gear: CF cards, various tripods, trees, poles, rocks, walls, anything reflective, and the occasional load of essentials from the rental house.

Scott Moffat’s - Recent Photo Journals

Written By: Scott Moffat - February 19th, 2012

PHOTO JOURNAL: SCOTT MOFFAT #11

Being back in California has been great. I’ve been spending time skating with all of the Kern County and Intuition.....

Written By: Scott Moffat - February 19th, 2012

PHOTO JOURNAL: SCOTT MOFFAT #10

Over the past year I’ve had the opportunity to roll amongst the community of Hawaiian rollers. Coming from the west.....

Written By: Scott Moffat - March 22nd, 2011

PHOTO JOURNAL: SCOTT MOFFAT #9

I have been out on Oahu, Hawaii, for half a year now and have discovered that rolling definitely lives out.....

Written By: Scott Moffat - December 9th, 2010

PHOTO JOURNAL: SCOTT MOFFAT #8

This was a late night session with just Chris Lorimer and myself. A strictly shooting session, no warming up or.....

Written By: Scott Moffat - February 1st, 2010

PHOTO JOURNAL: SCOTT MOFFAT #7

I can remember watching Sean Cowen thrown down in at the AIL competitions when he was just a little grom,.....

Written By: Scott Moffat - January 25th, 2010

PHOTO JOURNAL: SCOTT MOFFAT #6

Chris Lorimer is normally hitting rails when we skate street, so as I watched him scope out this gap and.....

Written By: Scott Moffat - December 22nd, 2009

PHOTO JOURNAL: SCOTT MOFFAT #5

Skating and shooting photos with David Jones is always a good time that leaves me juiced about skating. Our afternoon.....

Written By: Scott Moffat - December 13th, 2009

PHOTO JOURNAL: SCOTT MOFFAT #4

Shooting in LA recently, I got some great photos of one of Santa Monica’s locals, Byron Snatchywaters. This 19-stair had.....

Written By: Scott Moffat - November 24th, 2009

PHOTO JOURNAL: SCOTT MOFFAT #3

Skating on the central coast of California has been a solo event for me until recently. I finally found another.....

Written By: Scott Moffat - October 9th, 2009

PHOTO JOURNAL: SCOTT MOFFAT #2

This was shot during Intuition week up at Woodward West this past summer. A few of us were having a.....

PHOTO JOURNAL: Scott Moffat #11

Being back in California has been great. I’ve been spending time skating with all of the Kern County and Intuition Land crew that I came up under years ago. Anthony Luna was THE skater that we all looked up to. Luna is a team rider for Intuition Skate Shop and a flow rider for Remz. We used to do a photo session for Intuition every time Remz would come out with a new skate. That was the beginning of my exposure as a photographer in the rolling industry, thanks to Matt’s tireless promotion of the rollerblade scene through his shop and Luna’s charged motivation to get out there and get that shot. Years later, it is great to come back around to the home front and feel the strength of my old rolling community. I have watched Luna constantly push and encourage the young and up-and-coming rollers of Taft, CA, which has a skate park where the rollerbladers often outnumber everyone else; where can you find that? Luna has always been big on negative tricks, and we have definitely sessioned rails much gnarlier than this six stair, but this neg-acid he threw down over and over again was clean every time. Getting my lighting right was the only reason we had to keep shooting because he has negative everything on the lock-down. Equipment used: Nikon D300 on tripod, Nikkor 18-70mm @ 18mm, shot at f/4 @ 1/5 ISO 250. Nikon Speedlight SB-800 at 55º camera right

PHOTO JOURNAL: Scott Moffat #10

Over the past year I’ve had the opportunity to roll amongst the community of Hawaiian rollers. Coming from the west coast, I had been spoiled, one might say, with the frequency of skater organized events and numerous rollerblade crews. Oahu had a stronger rolling scene than I had expected. From any given point on the island you were no more than 20 minutes from a decent skate park. Catching up with Akari Ihara on the drive home was an occasional treat. You may have seen this guy on the cover of the Rollerwarehouse catalog about a year back, Liu Kang air with the green frames. Akari is essentially the backbone of the Oahu rolling scene. Throwing the annual Hawaii Real Street Contest every summer on the streets of Oahu, and staying consistent with the weekly Sunday skate sessions are a few of the contributions he makes to the island rolling experience. As he was soaring through Manana skate park one afternoon, we had a mellow photo shoot. After gapping quarter-to-quarter over the 12-foot plus channel, Akari came at the sub-box from the other direction and threw down a tourqued top soul. That was the trick that made the shot, and we called it a session. Shot with Nikon D300, 18-70mm Nikkor at 29mm. f/7.1 @ 1/250 ISO 100. Nikon SB-800 at 45º camera left.

Taft Session: Anthony Luna & Chad Tannhill

Recently I got to skate over in Taft City, CA with Anthony Luna and the local crew. Luna and I have been skating and shooting for over ten years now, and man have we built up a portfolio over the years. This is the latest addition to our sessions. Luna rides for Intuition Skate Shop and is also on flow for Remz. Haffey just came out with his signature 2.2 pro model skates, so we had to do a photo shoot on the streets of Taft. We kept it mellow but clean. Enjoy the show.

Chad Tannhill was throwing down at the local park all night and I was able catch just a glimpse of his talent to share with you. Keep it up Chad, we are going to feature you next post ;)

FLASHBACK: Jones and Snatchywaters Skate Street LA

Shot these back in Nov. 2009, just came upon them again and got juiced so I wanted to share them with you guys. Byron Snatchywaters and David Jones skating street in LA.

I was also fortunate enough to have Chris Lorimer get this shot of myself. Thanks for the support that day man, many good times.

Taonga Glass Highlights

While living in Hawaii, I had the opportunity to shoot in the Taonga Glass studio with Edward (Ted) Clark. Ted is a sculptor working out of Oahu, HI, but often travels across the Pacific to Seattle for building up his stock of glass. His work is featured in galleries throughout the United States and often holds very interactive workshops in his studio on Oahu. I wanted to share some of the highlights from the photo sessions that we had in his studio.

Panoramic Series #12: Kualoa Ranch

Stepping back in time and pulling up photos from my Hawaii archive, I found this shot of the ko'olau mountains on Kualoa Ranch, which is where films like Jurassic Park, Windtalkers and Pearl Harbor were filmed as well as parts of TV series like LOST and Hawaii 5O. In a beautiful horse pasture nestled between these shear cliffs of the ko'olaus and the white sands of the Pacific Ocean, a heard of horses wait for the sun to break through the clouds as the early spring rains begin to subside. The lush greenery reminds me of how much rain is constantly falling out on those little islands in the middle of the Pacific.

2011 AIL Championships

I was recently fortunate enough to enjoy a weekend at Californias Woodward West, for the Amateur Inline League 2011 World Championships. Friday night brought a mellow evening session with the likes of Brian Aragon, Dave Lang, Chris Haffey, and Matt Farnsworth and the We Are ONE Skate park crew from Utah. We had a great session on the launch box, shot some photos and then headed up to the lodge to celebrate in the name of another gathering of rollerbladers for the Armature Inline League World Championships 2011.

Saturday morning was filled with energized skating and positive encouragement all around as everyone warmed up for their divisions. Rollerblading icons Arlo Eisenberg and Matt Mickey were in attendance to keep things real in the name of rolling; Matt was also keeping things hyped on the mic and distributing the world famous, home made, Intuition Cookies. Mad support for the up and coming rollers was shown during the beginner session, during which everyone stopped skating to watch the likes of Danielle Montgomery, and the Velasquez twins, among others, throw down.

Beginner:

1st – Danielle MontgomerY

2nd – James Whelan

3rd – Mason Sieber

10-15 Intermediate:

1st Julian Budge

2nd Ethan Quinn

3rd Austin Montgomery

10-15 Advanced:

1st Johanny Velasquez

2nd Parker Richardson

3rd Troy Porretta

16 & Up Intermediate:

1st Nathan Genda

2nd Robert Rohlf

3rd Phil England

The Vert contest was short but sweet, with contestants from as far as Japan. 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd went to Hiroshi Minami, David Jones and Brandon Davis. The woman’s division was full of sick skating from the likes of Becci Walace, Coco Sanchez, Rosie O’Donaghue, Fallon and Aarin Gates; with 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd going to Aarin Gates, Fallon Heffernan and Rosie O’Donaghue of Ireland. I missed a good portion of this skating so no pictures, sorry girls.

Once the Advanced division began, the level of skating went through the roof in the Hanger’s street course. More than forty rollers skated two 45sec. runs each to place in the top ten and advance to the Elite division heats to battle it out for $1200 in prize money put up by Intuition Skate Shop and the AIL. The top 10 advancing skaters became AIL Elite.

16 & Up Advanced (Turn AIL Elite)


1st – Brett Urbas – Detroit, Michigan


2nd – Kazuho Kumazawa – Japan


3rd – Daniel Gorman – Dublin, Ireland


4th – Rick Rodriguez – Northridge, California


5th – Tony Rivituso – Las Vegas, Nevada


6th – Damon Franklin – Tehachapi, California


7th – Chris Calkins – Venice Beach, California


8th – Carson Starnes – Atlanta, Georgia


9th – Chad Tannehill – Taft, California


10th – Chris Napoleon – Las Vegas, Nevada

All of which skated hard against the AIL Elite such as Haffey, Shima, Richard Johnson, Dave Lang, Brian Aragon, John Vossughi, Julian Bah and Jeremy Townsen. Top riders of the Elite division were 1^st Chris Haffey, 2^nd Dave Lang and 3^rd John Vossughi.

Arlo announced the 2011 industry awards, awarding the 2011 AIL industry Recognition Award to Kato Mateu for the for his work with the WRS. For his positive contributions to rollerblading in addition to his talent on blades, Brian Aragon received the AIL Skater Recognition Award and Brian Shima was entered into the AIL Hall of Fame along with the likes of Randy Spizer, Chris Edwards, Arlo Eisenberg, Jon Julio, and Dustin Latimer. But the unsung heroes of the AIL are Pam and Richie Velasquez, whose passion for rollerblading and motivation to spread the love of rolling has brought numerous years of epic skate park series contests to the amateur level of the inline community.