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Part 8 of a 13 part series on slacklining on library lawn at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

As a person grows more and more comfortable on the slackline, merely walking on the line gives way to more and more difficult feats. Here a man named David completes a turn on the line. He had been walking toward me, but while keeping his balance, he pivoted his feet in one smooth motion to the end result that he faced the other direction. This is seemed to be the first move that slackliners master after they have become fairly comfortable walking.

This picture was largely inspired by designsoul. Her gift for using shadows in very graphic and powerful ways in urban settings challenged me as i recorded the slacklining.

By the time i had taken this picture, i had spent several hours over two days recording slacklining. i was starting to run out of ideas. Possibly my favorite picture of the whole series had been taken on the first day (it will be Part 12), and i was starting to get bored with the points of view that seemed obvious. At the same time, though, i felt like my series was lacking a specific perspective. After taking tired compositions in frustration, it occurred to me that perhaps i was missing a high vantage point. i had a friend hold my camera while i climbed to a notch about seven or eight feet up in the tree and shot a few pictures of the action from up there.

One workshop is a picture taken probably within a second and a half of this one... David didn't quite have his balance as well as he would have liked.

The second workshop is a picture of me clambering from my perch, taken by a man named Patrick whom i met while watching the slacklining.

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