Arlington Football Game

Attended the annual Arlington-Stanwood football game.   Exciting and fast paced game.    Arlington dominated scoring 5 touch downs within the first 12 minutes.     The game ended with Stanwood not putting any points on the scoreboard.   Final was 60 to 0.

Skateboarding - Folk Life 2012

While wandering through the Folk Life festival this year, my son and I came upon a skate part.   Couldn't help but stop to watch the acrobatics.   Not sure my photographs convey the height to which these gentlemen aspired.   Needless to say, enjoyed watching the aerial acrobatics and defiance of Newton's laws.

Rowing - Husky Crew 1986

I took these photographs in 1986 during a regatta sponsored by the University of Washington as the race came through the Montlake cut.    The negatives remained stored for twenty years after I retired my dark room equipment to a storage box.    Only recently upon the purchase of a mid-level scanner was I able to record these negatives digitally at a sufficient resolution for reproduction.

Lakewood High School Football

I attended the game qualifier for the state tournament at Lakewood High School this evening.   Thought this would be a good opportunity to practice shooting under the stadium lights.    All the photographs are ISO1000 to 1250 at f2.8 and 1/250 sec.   I used a Nikon speed light set at about a 20 degree angle to minimize red-eye.   I set up the camera to adjust the exposure histogram to the right (ETTR).  This helped to reduce the grain from the high ISO.   At home, I then used Noise Ninja to further reduce the high ISO noise.   These are a few of the photographs that I took.   Ambient temperature was slightly less than 40 F.   Lakewood won 43 to 13.

Para-Gliding 2

This gentlemen is going by himself.   Most however have a pilot - who also carries the parachute and equipment back up to the tram for the next ride down.   It takes approximately 15 minutes to ride the tram to the summit, and about 30 minutes to get back down to the valley floor via para-gliding.

Para-Gliding

During our trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming - we decided to go to Teton Village and take the tram up to the summit.  At the summit, you could get back down to the valley below via a para-glider.    Not for the faint of heart.

Mountain Biking

While trying my hand at mountain biking for the first time, I decided to also take the opportunity to work on my technique.   The only way to get to where the more experience riders was, was to go down the more experienced path.   So I slowly went down, positioned myself for photographs, captured this one - then promptly went the rest of the way down the hill.    This was before I decided to become one with the mountain and get six stiches in my arm from the local emergency clinic in Jackson Hole.   Of course I had the EMT photograph me before he cleaned my arm - too graphic to post that photo.  But it confirmed that my camera had survived the impact with terra firma.   Moral of the story - age and too much self confidence can be a dangerous combination on a mountain bike in the Tetons.

Hurdling

Great day for a high school track meet.   100M Hurdles - Ilyssa took first in her heat.   Photographs were taken with a 200mm f2.8 lens.   Shutter speed was f1/1600s at f/6.3, ISO 200.


GPS:  Latitude: N 48°5.768' (48°5'46.1"), Longitude: W 122°9.143' (122°9'8.6")
   

Snowboard 3 - April

This is my favorite of the series of shots that I took.

Snowboard 2 - April

A couple more shots in the series from today at Steven's Pass

Snowboard - April

Spent some time at the Terrain Park at Steven's Pass today.   Photographed this boarder coming off one of the waterfall jumps.

Sick Shutter Speed

This rider is one of Dane and Austin's friends taken at the Terrain Park at Steven's Pass.   He is coming down the backside of one of  the waterfall jumps.

Terrain Park View

This is a view looking down the waterfall jumps back towards the lodges at Steven's Pass.   Dane Gilbertson can be seen in the lower right.

Dane Gilbertson #4

Dane Gilbertson coming off the water fall jump progressing through one of his tricks at Steven's Pass Terrain Park.

Austin Curran 3

This photograph of Austin was taken with a Nikon D300 using a 200mm lens at f5.6, 1/1000 sec at ISO500.

Dane Gilbertson 3

A black and white conversion.  This is Dane coming down through the waterfall at Steven's Pass.   Photograph was taken with a 55mm lens, f5, 1/450sec at ISO640.

Austin Curran 2

Austin hitting the landing on the lower side of the hill after coming off his jump.

Dane Gilbertson 2

This is one of the early photographs taken while Dane was coming down the slope towards me.

Austin Curran

Here is Austin Curran hitting the same jump in the waterfall section of the Terrain Park.     Austin told me that although there was a lot of fresh powder, it was very slow snow and they weren't able to get the speed they were hoping for.  When Austin isn't up snowboarding he plays football for Central Washington University.

Dane Gilbertson

I spent friday afternoon at the Steven's pass terrain park with Dane Gilbertson and Austin Curran.   The sun teased in the morning and a few times in the afternoon but failed to show reliably for the photographs.   The first half of the day I positioned myself below the various waterfall jumps so that I would catch them coming towards and to the side of me.  The photograph above was taken later in the day when I followed them down the park in a line behind and to the left of them.   Here Dane is doing a forward sommersault with twist.    I'm sure there is a name for it, Dane will have to enlighten me.