The Small Things

With the rising gas prices, I have been walking and using Trimet to get to work for the past couple of weeks. The really nice part of commuting to work this way is it gives me a chance to take in the nature that can be found on the sidewalks and the sides of the roads.

I got to check this little guy or girl out the other day between rain showers on the walk to work from the Max station.

lighting

A couple of photos actually taken with an off camera flash.  They are from the same boulder at Carver called the Wave Boulder.

The first is of my very lovely Kimmy on a problem called Objection, V3.  It would make a good shoe ad for Five Ten. 

And this one is of the very photogenic Pirate Reverend Carl on Legal System, V2. The bare flash creates some hard shadows, but gives a skateboard mag look to the photo.


I'm using a Canon 580EX flash on manual and hand held with a Nikon D40 for the photo capture.

Cheerwine - WooHoo!

So we went to breakfast on Sunday morning at his really cool, but tiny place called Pine State Biscuits. And even though they cost $2 a bottle, I finally found a place that has Cheerwine. The whole experience was being in Portland the only way you can be in Portland, but experiencing a little bit of the old home state of North Carolina.

And then we went out and bouldered at Carver - guide coming soon!

Carver Bouldering

Jered Bernert and I have been working on a guide for Carver for quite awhile and we are actually almost done. Here is the overview map that Jered drew by hand and I tweaked and converted in Illustrator.


I'm not going to give any timeline for this guide to be out at your local gym or shop because so many things can delay it. But it s on its way.

There are over 300 problems at Carver and they need you to go out and scrub them.

spencer out