This week we had a job up in Island Park to replace a metal roof on a 15/12 pitch roof (for those of you who don’t know framer talk, that’s bloody steep—steep enough that we had to tie our selves off to my bosses fork lift). I went up last Sunday night and spent the whole week up there. After work each day I went and photographed at a lot of the old places that I had photographed a few years ago. It felt so good to be back up in the place that I have grown to really love and cherish. Here are a few photographs from the first couple nights up there, taken with my brothers digital camera:
On Wednesday my new Nikon D-300 arrived (I know in my last post I said it would be here Friday, but I guess they rushed the shipment). My brothers, who are working up at the scout camp, came up on Thursday and brought the camera with them. I immediately went photographing, but had to stop soon after to read some parts of the manual. After I figured out how to change some of the settings I resumed and over the next couple of nights I came up with these:
This one is probably my favorite:
Tax returns finally came this week, and after cashing my paycheck yesterday I had enough cash to get what I’ve had my eye on since about November: the Nikon D300. Once I got home, I got on Amazon and made the purchase and the camera should be here on Friday.
It’s going to be a long week.
I just came across a set of photos on Flickr where the photographer recreated famous photographs using Legos.
View the rest of the photos in the set here.
Last week I got a call from an old friend from scouting, Marcus Harrild, who asked me to help with a three day climbing training for the Boy Scouts. I quickly obliged, as it would give me an opportunity to both go climbing and go back to the place I call home, or Island Park Scout Camp. Being on the training staff I didn’t have as many opportunities to photographed as I would have liked, but I managed to make a couple with my brothers digital camera (I’m still saving up for the coveted D300).
After I looked at the second one on the LCD, I decided it had to be made with the 5×7 so I ran back and grabbed the rest of my gear and made the hour long exposure.
I couldn’t believe how much water there is up there. I heard that Island Park’s flood stage is at 9.5 feet and that’s right where the water level is at. All along the dirt road that leads to the camp there are several inches of standing water, which I had never seen before.
Overall it was a good three days, despite getting influenza. Luckily it stayed pretty mild until I got home.