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October 29, 2009

Lemons – Update 2

One of the louder and more annoying cars of the weekend…

The Baja Bug was one of the cars we could pass on the track.

Pace car? Try pace bus.

A 2002 Mini Cooper for $500 bucks? The judges didn’t think so either, and gave them 1355 penalty laps.

The Gremlin, in one of its rare track appearances.

This guy didn’t make it until the drop of the green flag before breaking down.

This guy didn’t even make it on the track.

Leading in the corner. Yeah, that roll is normal.

Look at it go!

Plenty of questionable driving during the weekend. I’ll be honest – this guy locked up the breaks every lap.

Don’t laugh at the old BMW. It was fast. Really fast.

Watching the cars come down the front straight.

See that motion blur?

Yeah… who says these cars are slow?

Fueling and driver changes.

Might give you an idea of how much the car is worth…

The Gremlin was black flagged for being too slow…

You do not want to see a puddle under your car.

You don’t want to see grass in your grill either.

What have we here?

Hot.

Really hot.

Yeah… I want one.

Towing is earth friendly? Really?

October 24, 2009December 5, 2013

24 Hours of Lemons – The Race Begins…

Sexy.

William pop riveted some decorations onto the car…

We paid $150 yesterday to run about 3 laps. Given what we fixed, money well spent.

You know you want one.

Everyone loves our Cosmic wheels. Too bad we only have 3.

This was my contribution.

The office.

The Gremlin next to us went all German… Should have done that on the engine…

This is the symbol for teams who bribe the judges. We’re probably the only team with a zero-lap penalty who doesn’t have one of these.

Team WT Motorsports.

Morning driver’s meeting.

Pit row. You can hot pit here (if you take yourself too seriously) or you can bring it back to the camping area and be a bit more relaxed.

Philip getting in the car.

A view from the inside.

Headed out to the track…

At the front of the pack on a blue Texas morning…

September 4, 2009February 13, 2014

A breaking D90… that still (sort of) takes pictures

So for those of you who haven’t heard, my D90 is having issues. Specifically, it seems to be deleting my pictures on the camera with a mind of its own. Over the past week or so, I’ve shot a variety of pictures trying to determine if my camera has an issue, and today I sent it off to Nikon for repairs. Sigh. I’ll just have to shoot the D300 for a while, which really isn’t the worst thing one could say.

Anyway, a few shots from the random clickfest.

July 31, 2009February 13, 2014

Colorado

For those of you who don’t know, I spent almost two weeks in Colorado recently, and am just now getting around to putting pictures up. A group of five of us spent 9 wonderful days on the trail, treking through some of the most remote and beautiful parts of Colorado in the Weminuche Wilderness. For those interested in the details of our route, just ask and I can break it down step by step, but many parts of it will be clear from the comments on the full gallery of pictures.

For those interested, I took the D90 with a Tamron 17-50 2.8, and Seth graciously loaned me his Nikon 55-200 VR. In addition I took my gorillapod and three batteries – the whole rig contributing about 4 pounds to my pack. In retrospect, I would probably swap out the 17-50 for a lighter 18-55, even though the quality likely wouldn’t be as good – the weight would be hard to argue with, though. Additionally, I did suffer a near-catastrophic failure of my memory card, though with some good recovery software I was able to get a few of the images off. Not quite sure about the reason for the failure yet.

A full gallery, along with subtitles, is available here.

View from our campsite on the first night.

A Rocky Mountain Columbine

The first part of our trip was hiking up the Vallecito Creek, shown here.

Lots of lily-like flowers along the trail.

The Guardian, as seen from our third camp.

One of many mountain waterfalls.

Leviathan Lake, pretty much the most beautiful place ever, even in this HDR-ish shot.

A view of the lake in the morning, with the water still.

Needed a new Facebook profile picture.

We were joined by two goats – in this case Buddy.

Yes, had to do a long exposure even in the mountains. Why else would I take 3 batteries?

Looking back to the west over the whole of the lake in the morning.

Jagged Mountain. Note that Buddy (and Mable) decided to follow us over the pass.

This is Floyd, our friendly neighborhood marmot.

Brent, fishing on the Animas.

July 4, 2009December 11, 2013

Frogs and Lizards

I’ve had this video for a while, but I finally got a chance to put it together a few days ago. More D90 with Nikon 200, but this time of some lizards and frogs instead of just butterflies. I’ve also got a compilation of this video and the previous one that I’ll post in a couple of days.

One of the more interesting things about this editing process was learning just how fast my new computer is at rendering video – specifically that it will do it almost in real time. This 2:45 video rendered in almost exactly 3 minutes. On my laptop that probably would have taken 20-30. Gotta love technology.