Snow

It usually snows once a year but not this much, not in twenty years.  That much weight on the oak trees causes too many problems for the area.  All of the power, phone and cable lines are above ground and vulnerable to the broken branches and dropped trees.  We were inconvenienced for 48 hours without electricity, but the barn's line, box and roof have not been repaired yet.  Enjoy the pictures.  Click for larger versions.

 

So Called Meteor Shower

I heard a rumor that there was supposed to be a meteor shower climaxing on Nov. 17th.  I set up two cameras to record the event.  I saw three sparks of light and captured one of them.  Hope someone saw something spectacular!  Stay tuned for more projects.  I have four driving videos in production, a video contest for which I'm gathering footage and several panorama shots compiling that are taking way too long to stitch.  Oh, and my website should be live in a week or two or three.  Video, flash, galleries, etc.

driving around Missoula

Here is a video of driving from my place in Missoula to a friend's place, and I stopped through costco gas on the way.  511 pictures.  Much smoother this time.  No treatment, yet.

Two from the Road

Here are two pics from the last of the drive today.  We only made it to Eugene, Oregon after many hours of driving. Shot on Highway 126 from Redmond after late lunch in Bend.  We stopped the trip to Crater Lake after deciding it was too late to see anything and backtracked to Eugene to get to the coast.

I shot 4200 pictures each day so far.  I'll have extensive driving movies after I edit the sequences.  Click thumbnails for large view.

Sunrise Missoula October 17, 2009

I could shoot the sunrise every day, if it rose around 7:41am.  Second to the last day in Missoula.  I can't wait to get going.  Click the image for a larger view.

Portfolio in Progress

We have been working feverishly on our portfolios for the Advanced Intensive final. The 20 minute reviewer meetings start Wednesday morning. Prints, business cards and leave-behinds have been prepared all week. Seems like everyone in school rushed into the print lab on Saturday to try to finish his or her project.

Here is a sneak preview of mine. Driving back to Missoula time-lapse with cartoon treatment that I performed for the computer podcast. People seemed to react well to the results so I am showing this body of work. I'll have the video running on my laptop, 8 1/2"x11" prints of the some of the frames and a flipbook with a short example of the video. Ran out of ink and paper this morning so the flipbook is a limited edition of eight copies.

Half of the presentation images printed on Museum Etching Paper.

Four of the flipbooks. Still need a binding to cover the staples. I'll find something before Wednesday.

Inside the Shingle Springs to Placerville flipbook part of the video.

A sample of the larger leave-behind with my logo and website info.

HDR Panorama Redone

Here is the second version. I took the 14 shots and ran them through photomatix. The three shots for each segment were combined with the same tone mapping settings and then stitched together across in photoshop. This results in more detail, deeper blues in the water and a straighter horizon line. One of the pictures was not needed for the panorama due to overlap. The file was 1.4GB with dimensions of 40"x 15".