Outdoor Travel Geek

Month: March 2013

  • dewey point

    I went backpacking solo for the first time this weekend. It probably would’ve been better to wait and organize a trip that people could join me on, but at the last second I decided to go alone. The window of opportunity for a snow trip in Yosemite was closing and I would be out in Modesto…

  • learning from the worst

    Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer who is considered by many to be the father of modern photojournalism. His famous quote, “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst,” is one that I only recently heard of, but I think it’s definitely true in my case. Recently my computer’s main hard drive crashed, so I lost…

  • synaptic response

    synaptic response

    Synaptic response?! What kind of weird title is that? Well, they seem to say that a lot in Star Trek, which I have been watching a bit of on Amazon Prime lately. But actually this post is in response to riding my new bike, a Cannondale Synapse. The new bike. A Cannondale Synapse. When it…

  • pinnacles

    This weekend I went for a hike at Pinnacles National Monument along with a group of guys for my friend Johann’s bachelor party. The ‘before’ picture. I didn’t realize that we were supposed to be smiling for this picture… Pinnacles is known for rock climbing. At various points along the trail that we hiked, we…

  • through the arch

    One of the cool things about Europe, in my opinion, is the architecture. There’s a lot of really old architecture, and arches are pretty prominent in a lot of that old architecture. So anyways, as sort of a photographic assignment I tried to frame random subjects in arches. I think arches are cool, and apparently…

  • merchants & musicians

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    On my trip to Europe I brought two cameras, my Pentax SLR and my Olympus mirrorless camera. In Prague I ended up using the SLR for most of my pictures but in Vienna I ended up using the mirrorless camera exclusively. I took the subway a lot in Vienna, and didn’t want to have to…