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Seeing that photo, the instant voiceover in my head was an Emperor Palpatine saying, “Yesssss. Goooood.” adorable photo

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That’s actually what I just logged in to ask – if all the photos should be from one outing. I was considering making multiple excursions but didn’t know if I’d need to stay within one grouping for the theme.

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I personally thought the spirit of the theme was to just stop wherever you are when the minutes run out, and try to get the best shots you can come up with, given the hand you’ve been dealt. That being said, there’s no way that anyone would be able to check and see if you followed the rules, but when I go out for this I’m expecting to get some real random images…

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I’ve heard a lot about adorama – I also heard from a friend that there’s a place in SD that sells a good amount of 120 film as individual rolls, so I’ll cruise by that final spot before giving up. Orionid – those are some awesome tips that I didn’t know about. When you say put it in a new cassette though for cross-processing, do you mean making an impromptu dark-room, pulling the film out, and putting it into a new one? Why do that instead of just leaving it in the original one and writing “c-41”? I might want to try leaving a few rolls of film in a hot car for a few hours 🙂

More than anything, I was just disappointed at the lack of selection in camera stores. Especially the lack of slide film. I think I’m more of a landscape photographer, so I really want to see how the colors pop with slide.

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Finally, all my Rav favorites in one convenient location

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I heard that bears have learned to just get pissed off at them – if they see them, they’ll knock them down the hill, knowing they aren’t going to be able to get into them, just to fuck with you 😉

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So which of you two is going to be the first to hack into the Hubble operating system and take that for a spin? Or is that now too aged to be worth it?

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Hmmm…we were at about 6700 feet and only had small patches of snow, and Bishop isn’t too far away, so it probably depends on how high up you’re going. I know Mammoth has had heavy snow cover going into the 4th of July in the past, but if you’re staying under 7,000 feet I’m guessing you’ll avoid snow.

That being said, there was a snowfall up in that area about 3 weeks ago, so the problem isn’t the snow, but the melt-water. Make sure you waterproof your shoes because there could be lots of marshes, bring extra pairs of socks and moleskin, and some hefty DEET bug-spray; I was using something at 25% and it did nothing to prevent mosquitos, but my friends had some 95% DEET spray they got at a camping store that seemed to do the trick. Try not to camp too close to water, and a hiking staff can help a lot if you need to ford a river (and also helps you pretend you’re Gandalf).

Finally, you’ll probably get some good tips from a park ranger if you call ahead. Dunno if they require bear canisters like they do at Yosemite, but we rented ours in advance from stores in SD and they cost about $5 per day – we found out when we got to Yosemite that they rent them through the ranger station for $5 a week! But if you don’t have one, you can’t backpack in Yosemite (they don’t allow bear bags for some reason anymore…). Hope you have a blast!

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Oh, and perspective for the drop where those photos were taken – the picture I have up right after the raven eating the snake, if you look in the top-left on the cliff, you’ll see my other friend standing on the top of a boulder (easier to see on the larger version). If we slipped and fell the wrong way off those shots you were admiring earlier it’d be landing a few feet from something like that, so I’ll still gladly accept the queasy-ness

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One of my favorite things about your star photos, Plama, is the blending colors you get in the sky. Is that light pollution coming off a city nearby, or are you capturing at awesome moment at sunset? I wonder how you get the stars to show up so brightly without overexposing the rest.

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This is a magician’s cove, where we can share spoilers like this and just never reveal them to the general public, right? 😉

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I almost forgot to post this week! Nice work, everybody.

I actually *did* forget until I got home and saw this comment on the top of this page. Damn, that’d have been 2 weeks in a row!

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I get paranoid with my photos for this reason. Laptop, external hard drive, plus DVD’s if I need to clear out some space on the laptop. Glad to hear you were able to grab all of them back.

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Thanks, everyone 🙂 Yeah, I definitely don’t regret it – I’d just plan differently next time :mrgreen:. I talked to my boss who’s really into photography, and he says he’s too old to carry around all the gear now, so he told me I might as well do it while I’m young.

The one that Rav highlighted was a few yards away from where we slept on Dewey Point. There’s a cliff under there, but not *right* under it. This is where we had some fun with framing.

Another shot we did:

And then the one that ruins the magic:

Still, I was surprised with that first shot because that girl is deathly afraid of heights, and she was freaking as we tried to talk her up there. Probably about a 2-3,000 foot drop if you go another 5 yards forward.

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Ditto with what Kes said – the bottom-most one really draws me in

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