photos, interesting stuff, and thoughts of the design engineer and photographer named Eric.
There isn’t much snow left in the mountains around Utah, but with a storm over the weekend, there was a little more in the Uintas. We had very different conditions here last July.
It was filled in (enough) everywhere but the top of the saddle.
Great way to end the weekend.
- Ben Sunders http://scott2012.org/routine/
Great day of touring up to, and over Baldy. The good turns were worth some loose rock and choss-ineering; the easiest way isn’t always the most “fun.”
First of several shots from this weekend in the City of Rocks:
Photo by Greg
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Here’s three chords, now form a band. Here’s three principles, now form a brand”
- Abe Burmeister of Outlier.cc
Found good snow as it warmed up both Saturday and Sunday. The lifts aren’t running any more at Alta and there’s still patches of snow that will get you up to Cardiff Pass and beyond.
Almost never wrong to start early, the light’s better anyway.
(battery on the GX1 died, so switched to the iPhone.)
The Panasonic GX1+14mm f/2.5 was fun to try out for the weekend. Its not as much fun to use as the Fuji X-Pro1, the manual dials on the Fuji are much nicer than the menus and buttons on the GX1. I found that if I did not turn off the GX1 I would accidentally change its settings when I would pull it out of its bag while wearing gloves. The GX1 is a faster camera, both in ready-to-shoot time and autofocus. But if I had to pick, I’d take the Fuji even if its slower and has a quirky focus system. The easier solution to all this is just finding a lower profile camera bag for the 5d+small prime(s).
“What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me … is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.
But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story.
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
- Ira Glass http://writerunderground.com/2011/04/28/ira-glass-on-creativity-or-the-gap-between-our-taste-and-our-work/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY&feature=player_embedded
- Yvon Chouinard
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/corner-office/patagonia-founder-why-theres-no-sustainability
