104. Trek - June 7-13, 2015
Deron-
Well, this is my back up, just in case I wasn't able to get something else. After the 'incident', which took place about 20 minutes after this shot was taken, I haven't felt like hobbling out to get what I really wanted. Hopefully, I can save that idea for another WPOTM.
This is the path down from Baden-Powell Summit (9,407 feet), near Wrightwood, California. Ahead of me, you see a few Scout Masters and Boy Scouts. This mountain is named for Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts. This is the climb that the local Scouts must do to get their Hiking Merit Badge.
Well, this is my back up, just in case I wasn't able to get something else. After the 'incident', which took place about 20 minutes after this shot was taken, I haven't felt like hobbling out to get what I really wanted. Hopefully, I can save that idea for another WPOTM.
This is the path down from Baden-Powell Summit (9,407 feet), near Wrightwood, California. Ahead of me, you see a few Scout Masters and Boy Scouts. This mountain is named for Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts. This is the climb that the local Scouts must do to get their Hiking Merit Badge.
Kevin-
Deron our incredibly capable member of this WPOTM exercise can trek up a mountain, carry Revo (his 80 pound dog) back down, stumble, rip his knee to shreds, get 19 stitches, then shrug of the inability to get painkillers.
While for me the definition of Trek is to walk casually to my car so I can drive.
Which is what I am doing here, Trekking to my BMW in my Piloti driving shoes.
Nikon D4s, placed on the ground aiming up and remotely triggered. 24-70mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 35mm. One Nikon SB-910 flash, also placed on the ground. 1/60th of a second exposure so I could get some motion blur from the camera/flash combination. f/13. ISO 100.
Deron our incredibly capable member of this WPOTM exercise can trek up a mountain, carry Revo (his 80 pound dog) back down, stumble, rip his knee to shreds, get 19 stitches, then shrug of the inability to get painkillers.
While for me the definition of Trek is to walk casually to my car so I can drive.
Which is what I am doing here, Trekking to my BMW in my Piloti driving shoes.
Nikon D4s, placed on the ground aiming up and remotely triggered. 24-70mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 35mm. One Nikon SB-910 flash, also placed on the ground. 1/60th of a second exposure so I could get some motion blur from the camera/flash combination. f/13. ISO 100.
Paul-
The picture I am submitting is a hiker trekking through a large nature preserve just outside of Lincoln. It looks like a fairly idyillic image, doesn't it. It isn’t. Due to historically record setting regional rains, there’s standing water everywhere and that means particularly large concentrations of agressive mosquitoes that have been spotted carrying away foxes who, at the time, were carry away rabbits. Yeah, big. Had I thought this through in advance, I would not have taken my pictures under a canopy of trees right next a large pond. Not only where they swarming me, they seemed to take a liking to my Nikon and tripod, too. (No kidding.) So I only got off two sequences—5-second delayed timer, 5-second intervals, three-shot sequence, and .3 EV balanced—before I felt I needed to make a hasty retreat to the safety of a tube of cortisone.
Our story so far: Shot at 1/80 sec.; f/13; ISO 400; 18-55mm lens set at 55mm, -1/3 EV bracketed, 3-shot timed sequence; tripod used. The original shot was in color and then converted to B&W in Lightroom. Though the photographer had always nursed a secret desire to be more attractive females, he’d been entirely too reckless in what he wished for. The female mosquitoes—who unlike the males—go for blood, found him irresistible. For his part, the hapless fellow was not flattered.
The picture I am submitting is a hiker trekking through a large nature preserve just outside of Lincoln. It looks like a fairly idyillic image, doesn't it. It isn’t. Due to historically record setting regional rains, there’s standing water everywhere and that means particularly large concentrations of agressive mosquitoes that have been spotted carrying away foxes who, at the time, were carry away rabbits. Yeah, big. Had I thought this through in advance, I would not have taken my pictures under a canopy of trees right next a large pond. Not only where they swarming me, they seemed to take a liking to my Nikon and tripod, too. (No kidding.) So I only got off two sequences—5-second delayed timer, 5-second intervals, three-shot sequence, and .3 EV balanced—before I felt I needed to make a hasty retreat to the safety of a tube of cortisone.
Our story so far: Shot at 1/80 sec.; f/13; ISO 400; 18-55mm lens set at 55mm, -1/3 EV bracketed, 3-shot timed sequence; tripod used. The original shot was in color and then converted to B&W in Lightroom. Though the photographer had always nursed a secret desire to be more attractive females, he’d been entirely too reckless in what he wished for. The female mosquitoes—who unlike the males—go for blood, found him irresistible. For his part, the hapless fellow was not flattered.
Jerry-
Howdy trekkies!
I wandered about the U of M campus (with my U of M camera) and took several trek shots. Attached is my favorite. My U of M work camera is a Nikon D7000 with 18-200mm Nikon lens, kind of a ready for anything set-up. In the properties box, it says I was zoomed to 112mm, 1/500 @ f11, ISO 400. There are quite a few Trek bicycles on campus, I refrained from beating any of them with a hammer or other tool of destruction but did manage to have one in the middle of the upper left montage photo.
Howdy trekkies!
I wandered about the U of M campus (with my U of M camera) and took several trek shots. Attached is my favorite. My U of M work camera is a Nikon D7000 with 18-200mm Nikon lens, kind of a ready for anything set-up. In the properties box, it says I was zoomed to 112mm, 1/500 @ f11, ISO 400. There are quite a few Trek bicycles on campus, I refrained from beating any of them with a hammer or other tool of destruction but did manage to have one in the middle of the upper left montage photo.
Byron-
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)
In a shockingly Paul Hoffman-like style, I will quote a Chinese Philosopher. I did not chose to journey 1,000 miles however. I went for a walk at Elm Creek Park. Kevin and I both had the idea of putting the camera on the ground and shooting upward. Mine is not as vertically oriented. I used a mini tripod to angle the camera up. I used my 18-55mm lens at it's widest setting, ISO 100, f/8 at 1/125 second.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)
In a shockingly Paul Hoffman-like style, I will quote a Chinese Philosopher. I did not chose to journey 1,000 miles however. I went for a walk at Elm Creek Park. Kevin and I both had the idea of putting the camera on the ground and shooting upward. Mine is not as vertically oriented. I used a mini tripod to angle the camera up. I used my 18-55mm lens at it's widest setting, ISO 100, f/8 at 1/125 second.