slow start

Added a new camera to the quiver the other day. My old roommate kindly gave it to me. Some special features include: a lens cover that requires manual opening and a black dot on the sensor. Nice beater to have around though.

the new guy

the new set up

an awesome gift

messing around at 2am

gear, ready to roll

Here is what is coming with me on my mini trip. We'll see if any of it actually get used. It sure would be fun to have a project to work on or a specific goal to try to reach. The problem with snowboarding is that I always want to do it and not record it. All my ideas end up being "lifestyle" shots and you cant make a video of just that; you need exciting content too.

it finally arrived

... and I'm not even sure what to do with myself. I hope to make it to the sand and the snow but we'll see how things go.

so fresh, so clean

Shower Essentials

Sunday

Nothin new.

ridiculous doo

???

Ohhh

I'll be surprised if I'll ever need more than 10 megapixels. Maaaybe 12 but anything more than that and i'm just filling up my hard drives with excess information.

Dead Week

You know times are good when you're eating/drinking stuff to keep you awake AND eating/drinking stuff to put you to sleep. Finals are next week then spring break is around the corner. Should be plenty of opportunities to take some photos and blow off some steam.

Not even sure if any of this actually does anything. Life is full of mysteries.

north jetty at home

sunday

sweet sweet nectar

Mt. Bachelor blew up last friday. It was absolutely amazing. Blue bird, minimal crowds, and two car loads of friends, and 12 inches of fresh snow on top of 30+ during the week. Last friday was almost as close to perfect as a mountain day gets. I realized that snowboarding on a good day might be one of my most enjoyable activities. Its so fun that you forget about everything else.

Back to fluid mechanics and intermediate dynamics...

2-14-11

Two random things that are rad:

1. big storms- mad snow, wind, or lightning and thunder is sick. Driving back from the mt in a snow storm made me think of this again. Heavy heavy weather is exciting.

2. good times- this one is hard to explain. think of it this way: you know its a good time when you can turn your phone off or leave it at home because it deosn't matter what your other friends are doing. You are having such a good time with the people you are with at that instant that you KNOW you're not "missing out" on any other activities. Good times are when you don't care if you have internet or cell phone service. You can essentially live in the moment, and be happy.

empty bowl of guacamole

in between couches to crash on, chillin in the Bend parking garage, eating tuna and crackers

happy valentines day,

Scott

first "real" video

Last wednesday night, while studying for a failure analysis midterm in the library, a lightbulb turned on and I finally got an idea for mt. bachelor's video contest. The contest ended in 24 hours. I was up till 4AM thinking of details then woke up at 6:30AM to go film because that was the only daylight I'd see that day.

We filmed for about 3 hours, I went to school, ripped the shit out of a midterm, survived through a fluid mechanics lecture, and went home to edit till 12AM. Here is the ghetto result:

We lost to another crappy video but had I been next to a computer instead of snowboarding, our video would have got way more votes.

Sunday Project

Having no engineering homework is sort of like a lunar eclipse. It only happens two or three times a year. This past weekend was a rare one and I'm afraid I didn't use it as well as I could of. I did finally make a little flick though. Here it is:

I don't understand a whole lot about video. This is a .avi file just because it was the smallest I could figure out how to use. Quality suffered a bit. I realize this clip is long and boring but maybe thats it's point. I was hoping it might just be a little inspiring and leave people feeling a little happier for some crazy reason. Maybe it's another classic clip encouraging people to enjoy and appreciate the little things.

I had another "moment" last night/today where I questioned engineering as a whole. It was due to a combination of things beginning with many small movie ideas that sounded really fun. Then last night I was watching a sweet artsy ski shop clip and then in lab today I got a little overwhelmed with the materializing responsibilities of an engineer. This was probably my 5th or 6th "moment".

...but today is Taco Tuesday, so thats good.

-Scott

pandora's box?

I got a video camera the other day off craigslist as an early christmas present. A camcorder has been something I've always wanted but never really thought about getting. I like the idea of having it around just in case. That said, I used to hate on DSLRs for not being "pure" and having the video function. Now I totally want one and see the practicality and creative potential they carry. I'm attempting to make some really really short clips over break. No guarantees.

Yeah it's a little older but check out the manual focus ring!

over a year and a half later...

My camera rarely sees the light of the day anymore. Creativity is 90% gone and time is 95% gone. Switching schools has increased the amount of engineering work I do as well as partying and socializing. The people I hang out with aren't as into it and the area I live in isn't as inviting. Because of this, photography is on the backburner.

I made it a point to go out and use my camera a few weekends ago. I went to the park and nothing happened. Driving around desperately, I came upon a huge field. A father, son, and their dog were slowly creeping up on a large flock of Canadian geese. I new that very soon all the geese would take flight so I pulled the Subaru over and began to fumble with my camera. I had the 18-55mm on and went to switch to the 50-200mm. During the switch, I dropped the mount cap and while fiddling around for it, the birds flew. Missed the opportunity.

Update:

What up.  Creativity has been quite a rare commodity around these parts.  

Please bear with me!

Sunday Kickin'

Can you see what I see?  My buddy got a new pet.

Look familiar?

-Scott

Pear Blossom

Went to a run this weekend to watch friends.

Can I clone out the other photographers?

Friday Night.

Thanks for looking!

Digital Pin Hole Attempt

So a while ago I got this 500mm lens on craigslist for 5 bucks.  Absolutely terrible lens.  Anyways, it had a screwmount to Pentax K converter that came with it.  A while ago I had the idea to unscrew the converter and try to make a pinhole with it.  The other night I thought I'd try my idea out and this is what I came up with:

There was much experimentation done with the pin hole size.  I glanced at some other sites and checked what they had done but really didn't want to go all out.  Strictly some black sharpie and duct tape and paper. Here are a few shots with it:

My pinhole is very blurry and lacks contrast BUT you can actually make out what stuff is!  I had to contrast them up in post.  Good little experiment though!

Sequence?

What up.  Lately I have been slightly inspired by some sequences on other blogs and magazines.  Here is my attempt:


The intermediate step was the real toaster "pop".  I pushed it all the way up for the last one.  True magicians tell their secrets!!!!!

Spring Break '09

After much debate, plans finally fell together for this year's spring break.  All fingers pointed to an absolutely crazy, drunken, MTV style trip to Cancun!  Just kidding.  But really our plan was to drive back home to the Re✯l Nor C✯l, trek to a beach house in between Santa Cruz and Monterrey, kick it for a few days, then drive back up to Shelter Cove and spend two nights backpacking the Lost Coast before heading back to Ashland.  Here she goes:

Some buddies from school were on a surf trip down south as well.  They stopped by the beach house for a night and took a dip in the water outside the next morning.  I just woke up and walked outside for this shot.
The beach house was conveniently located next to some incredibly fat artichoke fields.  The night before we arrived, the guys who were already there made a mad artichoke run.  We readily reaped the rewards and they were delicious.  Artichokes for days...

This was some mysterious idol in the house.  Weird.

On one of our beach house days we drove down the 1 to Big Sur for a day hike.  Just a little pit stop on the way.
A quick warning before we went on the hike.  I don't know if I agree that poison oak is pretty, but it was amazingly abundant throughout this hike and the whole trip in general.  Our hike was up the Big Sur River Gorge.  When we got there, apparently the park was closed due to reconstruction and fire damage.  We had driven to far to simply give up and turn around.  We promptly walked past at least four "Authorized Personnel Only" signs and stealthily made our way up to the river.  I was forced to ditch the camera and backpack because there were spots where we had to swim to continue up the gorge.  I suppose there are just some things that were not meant to be documented.  This was my first real hike without my camera in a long time and it was actually kind of liberating.  

 
After the gorge we went out to the beach for a little.  California poppies making multiple guest appearances on this trip.
Me messing around.  I used to have this huge thing about shooting into the sun.  I simply wouldn't do it.  After cruisin some web galleries and blogs I decided to bring it back.  Of course this was with flash but I did actually take some into the sun shots this trip with some success.
Looking south.

On the way up we stopped in Santa Cruz for a few hours.  

Close to the beginning of the Lost Coast hike.  Our destination was the point farthest to the left.  It was approximately 9 miles away and took us about 6.5 hours to get there and 3.5 hours to get back.  We double timed it on the way back because we had to make it past an area impassible at high tide... and we had the wind on our backs.
On the way we came upon this young seal.  It was sick or something.

More poppies.

There were many driftwood shelters on the beach.  We slept in one the first night and found this cow in another.

One shelter had games to play.
The second night we slept in a little grove to escape the insane winds and flying sand.  There were trees to climb right in our camp site.
Ending with another wave.  

Great trip though slightly rushed with lots of driving.  Pretty much lots of binge eating, drinking, sleeping, hiking, and beaching.  Livin' the life.

Back to school. Back to shooting for the paper.  Back to the books.

Thanks for looking!

P.S. Ya'll got hooked up with XL pictures this time around.   Grabbed em from the wrong folder and blogger makes it way to hard to upload photos again... enjoy!