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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.

Shot Across the Bow

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This was shot with my underwater-camera-on-a-floatable-stick device. Comprised of a Bogen monopod mounted with an articulated head, and an empty plastic water bottle duck-taped to the upper end of the monopod shaft for extra buoyancy. Mounted on the head is a Canon G9 in a rigid waterproof housing. The camera itself is set to a custom self-timer that shoots 3 shots in rapid succession 10 seconds after the shutter button is pushed.

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Twilight at Komiza

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Evening in Vis

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