Photos from one of my favorite places on the planet:
Motherlode Meadows
31 January 2010
My parents gave me a ContourHD helmet camera for Christmas. Last weekend we were in Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival, so I got a chance to try it out while snowboarding. There’s no way to check the footage on the camera itself, so it is be quite hard to get set up properly. As you can see from the following video it turns out I spend a lot of my time snowboarding with a tilted head.
Click the resolution menu and maximize or head on over to YouTube to watch it in full 1080p.
And yes, that is me crashing into a tree at 0:29. And yes, it did hurt. I ended off with rather bruised ribs.
Shasta Polaroids
26 May 2009
A couple of weeks ago I picked up an old Polaroid Sun 660 from a guy on Craigslist. It was a mere $20, but since Polaroid have stopped production the film is rather more expensive; about $1.50 to $2 a pop depending on expiry date.
A group of us went house boating on Lake Shasta last weekend. We took a tonne of polaroids which Tessa was kind enough to scan.
The camera rocks. It’s big and chunky, and takes a good 20s to charge up the flash, but the noise it makes when you take a photo, and the retro-quality of the prints are awesome.
Yosemite
11 September 2006
I’ve been working through my photo backlog and have got to our weekend camping and walking in Yosemite back in June. I think Glen, in particular, has very fond memories of climbing the 750 metres to the top of Yosemite Falls.
Because of the shear scale of the scenery, a lot of the detail is lost in the small photos :(
Lake Shasta
10 September 2006
I’ve finally uploaded the photos from July’s house boating trip.
A bunch of us spent 4 nights on a house boat; riding seadoos, wake boarding, driving speed boats, and having general water related fun.
Cleared for solo; Return to the motherland
8 June 2006
Lat weekend I did my 6th AFF lesson and was cleared for solo. I then proceeded to jump out of a plane at 15,000 feet… completely alone. The previous 2 lessons had been with one instructor who basically hovers near you as you do excersises and makes sure you’re ok. It was so different being out there on your own, just falling with no one around. I’m now working towards my A-Licence, which involves a lot of self-study and getting advice from experienced jumpers.
On a completely different topic: I’ll be returning to England at the beginning of August for my cousin’s wedding. I’m planning on working from Google’s London office for 2 weeks, then spending the 3 weekends seeing friends and family. If you are around and want to meet up please get in touch, especially since a lot of my contact details are out of date or were lost in a hard drive crash.
