Will Fisher, who turned 16 last week, has two passions – photography and skateboarding. In fact, most of his photographs are of skateboarding. He takes photos of his friends with his Nikon D200 doing carefully set-up tricks on their skateboards. He plans the angle and the lighting with the care of a professional and then he posts them to his Flickr page.

That’s where a reporter from Seattle magazine found the one he had taken of his friend Kyle Steneide of Friday Harbor at the InnerSpace Skate Park in Seattle.

“I have put a lot of stuff on Flickr for fun, I guess,” Fisher said. “Being a photographer is what I want to do for the rest of my life.”

Fisher did not get many details about what the article is going to be about and does not yet know when it will be on newsstands. It’s his first published piece and he’s excited to be seeing his photograph in print soon.

Fisher, who is the son of Laurel Rust and Peter Fisher, says he has been photographing for quite a while now. He mostly photographs his friends at skateparks, but likes taking pictures of everything. He reads skate magazines and has studied the photographs in them. He says they have helped him to learn how to set-up his own photos.

He took a bunch of photos that day at the Seattle skatepark, but the one the reporter called about was a favorite his and the one Stenied had liked the most.

“My friend wanted me to get a photo of this particular trick he was going to do,” Fisher said. “I thought about it, what angle would look best, we set it up, and I took the photo.”

The magazine will be giving him photo credit.