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Early Summer Day Sail in Milwaukee

Chris and I spent the night on Intuition on Friday and Saturday morning were joined by Pawel and Pascal for a day of sailing. 2A_100529_070

Time flys when you’re sanding boats.

Experiment with Time Lapse: Canon 1D mkIII; Music: Brian Eno, Ali Click Mix.

HD version on Vimeo

This is a first test for me of doing time lapse with a dSLR, Photoshop, and FCE. There are 2,165 images shot in 5 sec intervals, depicting about 3 hours 8 minutes of elapsed time. Read more

Unterwegs – A Journey’s Journey

A journey’s journey. Movement and development. Pattern and chaos.

This was filmed while travailing around Europe in the winter of 1989 and summer of 1990. It was shot on Super 8 (that’s right: those are real bits of dust and scratches!) with a cheap, plastic movie camera I got in a thrift store. Read more

Ski Jumping

Shot on the Canon 5D mkII at the Blackhawk Ski Club near Madison.

Last weekend Chris and I spent the afternoon photographing a regional youth ski jumping meet here in Madison (Middleton actually). Wasn’t for a job–a friend of mine is on ski patrol at this area and let us know about it.  It was quite exiting, and we made some nice contacts so maybe something more will come of it. Read more

5 Year Plan

Russian embassy in Berlin, 1995

USSR embassy in East Berlin, 1990

USSR embassy in East Berlin, 1990

Russian embassy in Berlin, 1995

I took these two photos of the Soviet/Russian embassy in Berlin five years part. The first, featuring the head of Lenin, was in the summer or 1990. The embassy is located on the famous Unter den Linden boulevard in, at the time, East Berlin. Five years later in 1995 I found myself again in Berlin and spent a few days wondering around. Read more

Abstract Details of the Mechanical Linkages of Symbols

20 Years Ago – The End of an Era

It’s been twenty years this November since the the Berlin Wall ceased to be the barrier between the “East” and the “West.” Read more

Race to Mackinac Video

A short video cobbled together from very few clips i managed to shoot with the Canon G9 while racing the “Mac” on Intuition (S2 9.2a). We took second place in the Cruising 2 Div. Read more

Stiniva Cove

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Zlahatina is in the foreground

43°1’14.17″ N 16°10’19.9″ E

This is a narrow, fjord-like, cove on the south shore of Vis Island. Near the end of the cove the cliffs don’t quite come together and through this gap is a second, hidden cove! This second cove is like a large pool with small waves lapping up on a steep, pebble shore and a couple little fishing shacks.  A little, wooden row-boat is left anchored to the beach. The terrain in back of the beach runs back a bit then becomes steep and rocky with thickets of small pine trees and yucca plants.

The cliffs in the main cove pictured here plunge into the water quite a ways, making anchoring here a bit tricky. I thinks we paid out 35 meters of chain off the bow while our stern was only in a couple meters. It was necessary to take a stern line ashore and wrap it around whatever knobs of rock we could take advantage of. After lunch we rested and swam around.