22 February 2012
I’m in Alaska this week, heliskiing with a group of friends. We’ve got up in the heli for two days so far, and done a day of cat skiing. While it is cloudy and a bit foggy the snow is great. We’re hoping for a blue-bird day before our time is up.
I’m posting photos to Google+ as the week progresses.
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.
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.
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 :(
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.
