These are my favorite trees of any kind, the Albizia Tree (Silk Tree). They just make any scene look pretty cool. I shot this last week in Lawai, Hawaii while at a family reunion in Lihue, Hawaii.
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01Aug11A little bike ride around the neighborhood with the camera and the macro lens and found myself climbing a fence to take photos of an abandoned building.
The long drive home
18Jul11
Something I haven’t done in a long time, stop to smell the roses. A friend of mine suggested that I stop and smell the roses while travelling this spring through the month of terrain park shoots. Something I used to do on a regular basis, everywhere I went, I showed up late since I had a hard time not stopping everywhere, to take pictures. This time around on the drive from Bend, OR back home to Salt Lake City, Utah I actually pulled over and took some photos along the way of the 12 hour drive, turning it into about a 16 hour day…Nothing epic here, just wanted to share a few things from the road.
I stopped about 15 times along US 20 until I found a collection of these hay bales oriented in the right way.
After the review of the Clik Elite Contrejour camera backpack, this review of the Clik Elite ClikSit is going to be a lot less in depth. In fact it’s going to be real short. This is one of those products though that when you pull it out everyone around seems to give you a WTF type of jealous look as you just pulled out some instant comfort in the middle of nowhere weighing in less than a pound and a half. It’s small, it’s lightweight and still strong enough to support the tubbiest of people out there. Lets face it, we stand around waiting for light, waiting for the action to happen again, waiting, waiting, waiting, why not do that sitting? It’s not a new invention, it’s just like the As seen on TV Pocket Chair, however, it’s a LOT lighter.
Check it out here at B&H Photography
Lounging setup, waiting for things to go down.
Specs:
- Folds up to 91/4” x 8” x 11/4” and weighs only 1lb 5oz.
- Constructed of high quality aluminum, high-tenacity webbing and ballistic fabric with riveted reinforcements
- Nylon storage bag
- 300 lb. capacity
Detail of the connecting strap at the bottom of the stool. Unfold and connect the two steel straps together and have a seat.
The ClikSit next to the Clik Elite Contrejour 40 for scale
Carry bag that comes with the ClikSit. The package is small and light and fits easily in the front pocket of the Clik Elite Contrejour 40 camera backpack
If you’ve seen my reviews before you know that I don’t really review a product unless I really like it, or really hate it. Before you go on you should know I’m partially biased since I’m sponsored by Clik Elite. So that being said take it for what it’s worth but I’ve been using the production model of this pack for the last year, and a prototype the year before, I think it’s an honest review.
The Clik Elite Contrejour comes in two sizes, the 35L and the 40L pack. Both of these packs are almost identical with the only difference being the 40L is two inches taller. It doesn’t sound like much but in the terms of fit, two inches makes a huge difference if you are…..rather vertically challenged like myself. Most men would probably like the fit of the 40L, I’d suggest people shorter than 5’5″ to go with the 35L for a better fit.
This pack has been a long time coming with Clik Elite and I’m glad to have been a part of the development. There are a few key features to this camera pack that stick out as different from the pack. The Contrejour has a curve to the pack to more closely follow the curvature of your back that is built into the aluminum frame as well as the rigid foam camera block that is built into the pack. Having the camera block built into the pack makes for one less thing to move around while you are skiing, snowboarding, biking, hiking, etc to help keep the bag glued to your back while you are charging hard to get into location.
Continue reading ‘Clik Elite Contrejour 35 / 40 Photo Backpack Review’
As long as I’ve been working with Level 1 Productions it’s one of the covers that have eluded me through the years. We have been working together since near the start of my career so finally getting it now is something I’m pretty excited about. My shot of Alex Bellemarre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is sharing the cover of the After Dark DVD with photographer Chris O’Connell’s shot of Tanner Rainville at Great Canadian Heli in Golden, BC, Canada.
This type of feature has been on my to do list for at least 5 years now. The urban death gap has eluded me now for quite some time but this past season with a really fast winch that Level 1 purchased we were able to do it. I had the shots on Alex’s first try, but standing up a 50 foot rodeo 5 to flat was no easy task. Fortunately a few tries after Alex said he didn’t think it was possible, the kid powered through and stomped one of the more ridiculous things I’ve ever shot.
I recently had the opportunity to visit the UK back in April for a feature in Powder Magazine. We were shooting skiing of all things in the UK! It was quite the epic journey, but that’s not what this is about. While we were in Edinburgh shooting at the Midlothian Ski Centre dryslope hill (Hillend) I managed to drop a Pocket Wizard Multimax somewhere along the way while we were shooting. I didn’t even know I had lost it until I got a completely random email from Sarah Felton from the ski hill! She had found my Pocket Wizard and fortunately I have my name and contact info on all of them. Anyhoo, she went out of the way to track me down, and mail the Pocket Wizard out to me all the way from Scotland. Pretty awesome. I really had an awesome experience during our trip to the UK but the few days we spent in Scotland were among some of the friendliest people I’ve ever been around. This is just more proof. I hope I get to go back. Thanks very much Sarah and the rest of the Scots that treated us so well.
One of the added benefits of shooting with Byron Wells is since he’s from New Zealand and their ski magazines come out in June I get to see my photos in print a lot earlier than waiting 6 months for the photos to run in the ski magazines up in the Northern Hemisphere. This year is no different except Byron’s a bit more prominent in the magazine this time! Apparently the cover has some pretty good detail treatment with a bunch of foil print on the text so I’m pretty excited to see it in person. This is a shot from 2010 in Park City in this little backcountry urban zone as I like to call it that crews have been milking for the past few seasons. The old mining buildings in this zone make for some pretty unique shooting opportunities. This shot has was actually a horizontal shot and was cropped quite a bit to fit the vertical cover. Just about every time I’ve shot urban with Byron, it’s something he hasn’t tried before, but we always end up getting shots. He’s one hard working kid that wants to get shots. Glad Byron finally has a cover shot down there. Check out the original below.
track your photos with google
16Jun11
The technology has been around for a bit now but before it was a pay feature. Google of course has changed that by acquiring the image recognition software to match your image to what Google finds on it’s search engines. Also, it’s really simple and easy. I’m sure it has a lot of bugs to still work out but I put in a photo that I know has been around a bit that I shot at the 2011 Red Bull Cold Rush this year and the results came up pretty easily.
It’s quite simple.
- Go to: http://images.google.com
- Click on the camera icon on the right side of the box you type in to search.
- Either enter the url of the photo you want to track, or upload that photo and click on search images.
- Viola! There are your results, and that’s where people have been putting your stolen photos!
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted any weddings, I just haven’t gotten around to it. Those things are a lot of work and I was done working on them! Anyhoo, Jeff & Leslie were married in October of 2009 with a very small ceremony at the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. The site is quite a photogenic pacific northwest rainforest with a large suspension bridge connecting the main park to the heavily wooded ewok forest. Yup, I said ewok. The other side of the park is connected together via the “Treetop Adventure” zone with elevated suspension bridges going tree to tree just like in Return of the Jedi, minus the storm troopers, light sabers, ewoks, wookie, and of course Han Solo and Princess Lea. All weird descriptions aside the Treetop Adventure zone is a really cool collection of bridges, forest textures and boardwalks that is the most unique spot I’ve had the opportunity to shoot a wedding at. Rain or shine, it made for a great location to shoot at.
![](http://www.erikseo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Jeff-Leslie_12.jpg "Jeff & Leslie's wedding at the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park\")
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