we got hit with the first storm of the season last week. at one point every road around me was closed, and as you can see from the pictures below there were some treacherous driving conditions. with 60km-80km winds stirring up lake huron for 3 days, came some waves that were spectacular yet blown out and massive. i didn’t see anyone out surfing; and you can’t blame them. there was no outside, just curling monster waves as far as you could see. i took these photos of the pier before and after work for 2 days in a row. i have never seen waves explode over the end like it was on those days. in a couple of the pics it has to be 20-30 ft in the air.
I like to call this one, “you ain’t in Maryland anymore”
sorry about the lack of posts lately. i have thankfully kept up with photography and recently picked up an olympus 8mm fisheye, and a fl36 wireless flash unit. i’m saving up for the waterhousing and lens port. she will be mine; oh yes, she will be mine.
i drive past these two every day on my way to work. they’re pretty funny; always running around and seem to be playing. i stopped and took their picture the other day
I spent the afternoon at the beach today shooting some photos and hanging out. There were smaller waves coming in; fun enough to kill a Sunday afternoon.
This weekend I basically did nothing but take care of my riddled body, attempt to learn more about this camera, and shoot macro with this telephoto lens. I drove around the country trying to find some of my favorite test subjects; cows. You’ll see by scrolling down that I found a still, very obedient cow to photograph…..just totally not what I would have expected…
Yeah I know….that’s pretty gnarly. It was probably the work of a pack of coyotes. It’s weird, I don’t eat beef and haven’t for many years, but seeing this kind of thing didn’t bother me. It’s just the circle of life, right?
Then again maybe I’ve watched too many National Geographic shows…..
First hour with my new camera and 70-300mm telephoto lens. I really still don’t know how to use this camera or the lens; here’s how it turned out. I shot all of these out of the window of my truck while sitting on the beach.
so last year I went on a “holiday” which turned out to be more of an adventure then anything. Our original plan was to hit the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, and venture down in to the northeast coast of Panama to explore the Bocas islands and surf some beautiful reef breaks. On our first day in the country, the Caribbean coast was hit with some of the worst storms they have had in 25 years; and of course it just so happened to be when I decide to take a trip down there. See here
While we were in the midst of the storm, we were documenting everything on my little waterproof Sanyo videocamera. Much of the intent of the trip was to surf; but I wasn’t about to surf in 20ft+ messy swell, and get sucked out to who knows where. People thought we were crazy for even skimboarding while it was full throttle. We ended up being trapped on the coast due to bridges being washed out, and mudslides coming down the mountains washing out any cars that were unlucky enough to be driving on the highway. The storm was like nothing I’ve seen before. Just picture the strongest downpours you’ve ever seen for days straight, power outages all day, food supplies starting to run low in stores due to washed out roads. We thankfully met the nicest, most hospitable people I have ever met on ANY of my travels if the course of my lifetime. If it wasn’t for them, our pet dogs for the week, Nicaraguan rum, a deck of cards, and a positive attitude; we would have been in a way worse state then we were. Even with so much destruction around us, it was still amazing and I don’t regret it at all.
Adam edited a video showing our adventures from the two weeks; and now we made light of the situation and dealt with it. From the Caribbean, to avoiding Panama all together; completely diverting our trip to the pacific coast of the country with our new friend Alex from Puerto Viejo - this video shows what an insane trip this was. Once we got to the Pacific we did have a couple days of sun, but it was still relatively dumpy weather. Even though things did not go our way weather wise, it was an incredible experience that I will never forget as long as I’m alive.
Well my days of skateboarding may be over…..for now. In the 14 years that I have skateboarded, I have never injured myself so bad that I needed surgery; until two weeks ago.
I was skating a loading dock, nothing even special. I fell back when I landed and snapped my arm. Broke both my Ulna and Radius and one of them came out the bottom of my forearm…awesome. Two metal plates and 16 screws and I’m back together.
Since my last days of cinemetography; I thought what better time for me to pick up a hobby and get back in to the artsy side of my interests. I have been looking for a digital camera for a while and I decided to go with the Olympus E-620. What sold me on the camera was the quality for not only the price, but the size and weight of the camera for a DSLR. I plan on shooting a lot of surf and nature photography, and soon getting the underwater housing unit so I can shoot fisheye up close and personal in the waves. I may even explore some dive trips with this setup, who knows. Regardless I’m really excited to get back in to things, and taking on the new challenge of producing quality photographs.
This blog will primarily be my outlet for my Photography, and any other useless dribble I want to post. I will be posting up my first test photos shortly. Enjoy!
