Remember way back when I spent a few days in the Yakima Valley photographing at a hops farm? Well that very same farm was featured on a History Channel show called Food Tech. Last year, I was contacted by a producer at the History Channel about using a photos of mine in the program. Now, a year later, the program with an episode titled Hops Yard aired and I almost missed it. You can view my two seconds of fame at the end of the episode (about 2:32) when they flash the below photo of the fully grown hops. Here is a link to the show, Food Tech – Hops Yard.
With nothing but an entire day at our fingertips, Asha, myself and our great friend Nathaniel decided to enjoy Memorial Day with a day hike at Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park. With miles and miles of twisting trails with waterfall destinations and historic locations Cougar Mountain can provide hikers of all types with plenty to see. The length of our route ended up being somewhere in the nighborhood of 8 miles. Although there were other groups and individuals on the trail, we saw less and less people the farther out we hiked. Most of the larger groups were families with little kids, so after about 1 hour we were far enough out that the only people we say were groups of two or three.
During the hike, we stopped to take photos (and goof off) quite a lot. After a rough edit I ended up with around 150 images and 13 .avi’s (which I hope to turn into one short video). Nathaniel shot even more than I did, and his 1DS mkII was constantly humming. Between the two of us we had six lenses, two of which were deemed un-necessary. The two lenses that ended up being constantly swapped between us were the 50mm f1.8 aka “Stubby” and the 17-40 f4. Below are a few images from the adventure (mostly of the people I was with : ).
Snail and stump
Fern trunk
As the media has been pumping out more and more “inFEARmation” about swine flu, I have been trying to do a bit more research myself. In my wanderings, I have come across a wide variety of maps. The best yet is the GoogleMaps version which provides a nice detailed and interactive map with various classifications. Go check it out, and remember to wash your hands.
A few months back I posted a link on my old blog to a web gallery of smoke picture I had been tinkering with. Yesterday I thought it might be fun to blend a few of the single shots into one large image. Below are cropped, flipped and rotated versions of a larger canvas that contains seven individual shots masked together. I have cropped them to a 16×10 ratio (1680×1050 resolution) for anyone interested in using any as a desktop. Click on the links below the images to view the full versions. If there are any special requests for a custom resolutions or aspect ratios please let me know.
My friend DeeAnn, avid blogger of Shoestrings End, Wondersome StoryTime and The Most Wondersome StoryTime is featuring a small article I put together for Shoestrings End. Take a second or two and drop by, and while you are at it check out DeeAnn’s other blogs as well!
As I posted previously on my old blog, I am a big fan of whattheduck.net. This daily web comic provides a few seconds of much needed humor into my life. Hopefully it can do the same for you.
Welcome to my new blog! Thank you wordpress for making things so easy. Please bear with me (yet again) as I get things configured here. Thanks.