Ultraløping
May 22nd, 2006A guy emailed me today to ask if he could use some photos to write an article on my running photography.
Small world — seeing as I’m part Norwegian.
- dc
Back up the Truck
May 15th, 2006
This is a moment in Zombie History. Our house now smells like licorice, ginger and peppermint. That’s not the moment though, that’s ongoing. We are an official Altoids dealer. It was hard to imagine what 320 pounds of Altoids might look like, but it wasn’t all that big. But it did require a special truck and arrived on a palette. The driver got the handtruck and wheeled the delivery in. We feel like a big business on occaisions like this. And I guess we’re getting there.
The Altoids reps like us because we can do promotions together and “think outside the box.” Who would have thought of marketing mints to runners? But we think it goes pretty well with the JavaJuice, and who wouldn’t like a minty fresh feeling after a long run? How about curiously strong mints for curiously strong runners?
Of course, the main thing for us is that we like Altoids. A lot. And now we have 320 pounds of them.
gillian
Bishop Photography Workshop
May 11th, 2006
I just got back from four days in Bishop at a photography workshop with the amazing nature photographer, John Shaw. He’s does stunning work (he showed us a lot of his recent stuff). He’s now converted to all digital and he’s a Photoshop wizard, so it was like two workshops in one — field photography and digital workflow.
We went out before sunrise each morning, and again before sunset. Among the shooting locations were the Alabama Hills (photo above), Mono Lake, and a field of Irises with the Eastern Sierra in the background. What an amazing place for outdoor photography. No wonder Galen Rowell was so taken with the place.
“I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a ‘record shot’. My first thought is always of light.” — Galen Rowell