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Sony A6000 Review – First Impressions in Ten Sleep Canyon

View of Ten Sleep Canyon from my campsite

I’ve been desiring for some time a compact camera I can take with me on adventures that I can rely on for great quality images. Carrying a 5D Mk II on all day backcountry adventures was cumbersome and I wanted something WAY lighter and smaller. I’d been drooling over Sony’s NEX-7 and NEX-6 but wasn’t ready to make the plunge. This spring a buddy told me about the new one they just released, the A6000.

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The A6000 has a 24mp APS-C Sensor, which is the same sensor found in many new Nikon DSLRs. The image quality is fantastic! It was one of the biggest selling points, along with the autofocus system, and the fast frame rate.

The compact mirrorless category of camera is growing at a rapid rate, with companies like Fuji, Pentax, and Olympus flooding the market with great cameras, but with Micro Four Thirds Sensors. I like a lot of features in Micro Four Thirds systems, but I couldn’t get myself to buy a camera with such a small sensor. Size Matters when it comes to photographic quality. Comparing Micro Four Thirds to 35mm (Full size DSLRs’ sensors) is like comparing 35mm to Medium Format. There is very little comparison in quality. It can be seen in the ISO noise, the bokeh, and focal length of lenses.

The crop of APS-C sensors are 1.5x that of a 35mm, Micro Four Thirds is 2x. This means that your 16mm lens on an APS-C is equivalent to a 24mm lens on a 35mm camera. Similarly, that 16mm lens on your Micro Four Thirds is equivalent to 32mm on a 35mm Camera. You lose quite a bit of your field of view. Also, a Micro Four Thirds lens with an aperture of f/2.8 is equivalent to f/5.6 on a 35mm camera (You lose a lot of that beautiful depth of field).

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Sorry, I got off track. I’m talking about the A6000. First off, it feels great in your hands. It’s small, light, and fits in one hand. The grip is very natural and makes it easy to hold the camera. The physical mode dial is on top and is easy to turn (not it’s also easy to bump, so make sure you’re in the right mode before taking a photo.) Next to it is an exposure dial that you can program to be Aperture or Shutter. I prefer shutter because it most closely resembles my Canon setup.

Side note: I wish the Mode Dial and Exposure Dial were switched. I use the exposure dial way more often and the Mode Dial is slightly easier to reach with my thumb. On that note, most of the other controls are located under your palm when you’re holding the camera with a solid grip. It’s easy enough to get to them by moving your hand and it’s a consequence of how small this camera is.

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I definitely would not want to be shooting outside without the viewfinder. Bring the camera up to your eye and the image automatically switches the viewfinder. One advantage of the EVF (Electronic View Finder) is you can review your images with no sun glare, a feature that would be incredible on my DSLRs while I’m shooting on a ski slope.

The menu UI is not the most intuitive, but I’m getting used to it. I wish that it had one menu that I could put all of my frequently used options. There are custom buttons that you can program. In fact you can program most of the buttons to do different functions, which is a great feature.

The autofocus system is incredibly fast and robust. You can select points that cover nearly 90% of the frame (better than any camera I’ve used. My 5dMkIII is still awkwardly in the center, but leaps and bounds above the Mk II’s autofocus system). Shooting 11+ frames per second I’ll never have to worry about getting the perfect shot when shooting someone hucking a backcountry cliff. And with a 75+% autofocus accuracy rate the great majority of shots will be acceptably in focus (I think my 7d was about 40% accurate).

My Sony A6000 arrived a day before I left for a Ten Sleep, Wyoming climbing trip, so I decided to test it out. In short, I was thrilled with the results.

Alex Vidal never skimps on breakfast.

The camera did a great job with backlighting

Alex Vidal climbs a 10c warm up at City of Gold in Ten Sleep Canyon

Dave Champion warming up on a 10ish 11 with the rest of Ten Sleep Canyon behind him.

Alex Vidal contemplates a very challenging 5.11c crack

Wally Malles gets the heel on the 5.11c crack

Wally dropping clothes like a pro stripper.

Sending the crux of the route, before a sustained finger crack to the anchors.

Fingers and hands.

I put up, then red pointed, this thin, crimpy, techy 5.12a

Yeah Footwork!

In my photography I do a lot of manual HDRs. I take a bracketed exposure (3 shots, one underexposed, one over and one right in the middle) and combine the images by hand. The A6000 lets you shoot HDR’s which are processed in camera. It gives you a few options to fine tune it to your liking. Below are two photos, first an HDR that I blended by hand, and second the camera’s blend.

A single raw image with 3 different exposure edits to create this HDR image. Great view of Fickle Finger of Fate and Dry Wall from the Ice Plant

An HDR processed in camera.

The results are pretty great. You press the shutter once and it takes 3 images faster than you can let off the shutter button. One downside is you must to change the camera to JPG for this function to work. I wish that I think the camera would automatically do whatever necessary to get the image when I select this mode, not tell me that it’s not possible while shooting in RAW. It just adds an unnecessary complex step between seeing the image I want and taking the photograph. Because it has to be in JPG the camera processes the image and adds it’s own version of reality, over sharpening and saturating the image.

Sonja Nelson climbing Question Crack Right (5.12) on the Question Wall. Measuring only 4’9″,
the first move off the flake was an exposed one since the first bolt was well out of her reach.

It’s a superb route with an amazing view.

Alex Vidal enjoying Lake Point after our last day of climbing. He’s rocking my new Roscoe shorts.

The trip to Ten Sleep was a great climbing trip with friends. I’m psyched on the limestone routes and can’t wait to go back and try the south facing climbs when it’s not nearly as hot. I’m also psyched on my new Sony A6000! It’s the perfect size, weight and has amazing quality. Will definitely be my go to camera for non-pro shoots. And it fits super comfortably on my backpack with my Peak Design Capture Camera Clip!

If you’re looking for a compact, lightweigh camera that can do just about everything your DSLR can do in spectacular quality, this is the camera for you. And it’s only $800! It was out of stock most places when I was looking for it, but found it at Adorama.com!

Edit: A couple things I can’t figure out. There are menu options about bracketed exposure, but I cannot figure out how to make the camera take 3 bracketed exposures. I’ve heard that you can do it easily with the Sony Smart Remote app on your smart phone, but after downloading the appropriate app and following the directions online I cannot get my phone to connect to my camera. Once I figure that out I should have a lot more shooting options.

Exploring the Bay Area – Playing with a 5D Mk III

At the beginning of April I flew out to California to do a shoot with Jansport. I had been having trouble with the LCD screen on my Canon 5D Mk II (2) not being visible in direct sunlight, and since this was an outdoor shoot I figured I should have gear I could depend on. Luckily Borrow Lenses is based in the Bay and I was able to pick up a 5D Mk III (3) for rent the same day.

After picking up the camera I decided to drive to Half Moon Bay and take the 1 back to Marin county, where I was staying. If you haven’t done this drive, it’s spectacular. Even crossing over the pass from the East side of the peninsula is incredible.

I stopped at a beach with a lot of surfers playing around in the waves and decided to take the new camera for a test drive. It’s always good to familiarize yourself with new equipment before a shoot (I learned that the hard way).

There was a halfpipe set up just across the street and several kids were rocking it.

“Dog is my co-pilot”

Por mi madre

Loved this coastline!

I met an awesome trio from Germany traveling around the west coast in an Escape Camper Van. Shared a few beers and laughs and wished them well on their travels.

Click HERE to see this larger. Panorama of San Francisco as seen from Treasure Island

After my shoot I took several days to hang out with friends and explore. I met Anthony a couple weeks before while climbing in Indian Creek. He took me mountain biking on Mt. Tamalpais. It was awesome! Go say high to him at the Sports Basement!

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I really loved the Bay area. Marin County was incredibly beautiful and I would love to live there! The weather was incredible while I was there and I was happy to get to see all my friends. If it weren’t for the damn traffic it might be almost paradise.

Clear Creek with Matt Lloyd

It’s been a while since I’ve shot some climbing. After two solid months of being too busy to do much else, I was finally able to get away from my desk a couple weekends ago and climb with Matt Lloyd. I worked on Twitch (5.12d), near the New River Wall (which felt incredibly hard) while Matt put a burn on The Prowler, his 14a project. Was good to get out shooting again.

Photowalk

In the last two months I’ve been busier than I ever have in my life. It’s been incredible and somewhat stressful. I have missed my adventures, but there will be many more to be had. Right now it’s just powering through the work. I’m working with some amazing companies that I’m psyched to be a part of. But through all this I’ve shot almost no work for myself.

Today at Madelife I took my photo Accelerator (what we call students) for a photowalk and told her to focus on the minute details around her. We barely got 100 ft from the backdoor and found some great material. It’s been years since I’ve gone out with this intent. I get so focused on whatever I’m working on, whether it’s cultural portraits in India or adventure photography here in Boulder, that I forget to take in the small details all around me. It’s a great exercise for everyone to do.

We’ve been talking about composition this week and studying ideas like pattern, figure ground, the rule of thirds, and leading lines. Last week was was about Depth of Field and Motion. Here are a few of my favorites from today.

ISO 100 f/2.8 1/1600 – depth of field study

ISO 100 f/8 1/200 – Pattern Study

ISO 100 f/2.8 1/2500 – Pattern Study

ISO 100 f/2.8 1/640 – Pattern Study

ISO 100 f/2.8 1/2500 – Pattern Study

ISO 400 f/8 1/125 – Rule of Thirds Study

ISO 400 f/2.8 1/800 – Leading Lines Study

ISO 400 f/2.8 1/250 – Pattern Study

I used to get out every sunday with my good friend Katie Collins, and we would shoot whatever broken down, abandoned, overgrown beauty we could find. I miss those adventures. I need to, as I encourage my “students” to, get out and search out the details that inspire me much more often.

The Compulsory Photo for My Mother

The Bay area was incredibly beautiful while I was out there for my shoot with Jansport earlier this month. We were moving between locations on Mount Tamalpias and Anne, from the Jansport team, pulled her car off the side of the road. I had told her I’d never shot from above the clouds before, and that was one shot I’ve always wanted to get. I stepped off onto the hillside looking for a shot.

My mom always bugs me that I don’t take enough “beauty shots”. So here you go, mom. The beauty of Marin County, California.

There is so much more to see in Marin County, and I wish I had had more time to capture it all.

A Different Perspective

I work a few hours each week with the organization Madelife in Boulder as a photography mentor. I enjoy getting to share my love for and knowledge of photography with other hungry creatives. A couple of weeks ago I was talking with one of the apprentices about changing your perspective and brought up a few photos of mine as an example. I then flipped the images to show how you can gain a new perspective just by rotating an image…and BAM I loved my new images!

I went to St. Peter’s in the Vatican in 2009, and while waiting for the Pope to speak I was standing around bored. I started photographing people’s shadows on the cobblestone and I loved the shapes it made.

But by rotating the images you get a whole new image that I think I love even more!

Play. Experiment. Change your perspective!

I Love the Climbing Community

Being stupidly busy is a two tailed monster. I’m excited to be working with Zeal Optics and happy to have a steady flow of work to do, but I don’t have time to do the things I normally do, such as update my blog.

I’ve been shooting and traveling a lot since my last post. I went to Indian Creek for the first time with some good friends a few weeks ago. It was my first time climbing in the desert and it was amazing, but that’s not what this post is about.

I love being a part of something bigger than myself. It’s how we survive as humans, and it’s how I succeed as a creative. Without others my work would have no meaning. The climbing community is an amazing tool that spans every continent and country. As soon as you reach a new place, search out the climbing community and you’re guaranteed to meet fantastic and interesting people. It’s how I’ve made friends wherever I’ve gone, whether it’s Mumbai or Boulder.

Every trip you take, take time to meet the community around you because they are an incredible resource. Back to Indian Creek: while climbing at Donley Wall I met Anthony Biollato from San Francisco. We chatted for a while and later he climbed the stout 5.10c Elephant Man that I was posted above while shooting a friend on Chocolate Corner.

We exchanged contact info and a week and half later I hit him up when I was in the Bay shooting for Jansport. Anthony hooked me up with a mountain bike and we had an awesome day with some other friends riding Tamarancho on Mt Tamalpias. Such a perfect way to round out a great week in the Bay area.

Being an extravert I take a lot of joy in meeting new people wherever I go, and love that ever expanding network. I get to enjoy amazing places with a lot of great people. Anthony is definitely great people.

Backcountry Skiing Above Emerald Lake on Halletts Peak

I’ve gotten more ski days in this year than ever before. I think I have 17 days on snow, which is not a high number for many Coloradans. But it’s a huge improvement, and I’ve spent many of those days in the backcountry. I’m excited for spring skiing and getting out more.

A couple weeks ago I got out with Will Butler to Emerald Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, on a warm Saturday morning in early March. The skin up to Emerald Lake is not difficult and goes by quickly. It was my first time in the backcountry with my new Black Diamond and Dynafit set up (and it was glorious!)

We had met two friends in the parking lot who had never been up in this zone and invited them to come with us. It was good to fill out the group.

I know I already posted this, but, well, I like it. The view of Halletts Peak from Emerald Lake. Dead Elk and Dragonstail coulouirs are the steep couloirs on the right face.

Will Butler, Garth Fasano, and Peggy Tautz skinning up below Dragonstail Couloir. It is steeper than this photo makes it look.

We debated what to go up. There were some natural wet avalanches being triggered in and around Dragonstail, but the slope between Dragonstail and Dead Elk looked to be more stable, and others had already skied it this morning. We follow their skin track to a safe zone between the two couloirs. Garth and Will contemplate trying to cross the slope to a larger ridge line past Dead Elk, but since things are sliding around us I thought it best to get down as quickly as possible in the zone we just came up.

As Garth and Will try to get a better look a slide comes down Dead Elk solidifying that we should get down as soon as possible and we should stay in the zone we “know” is solid.

Garth crosses some of the debris to get to some fresh snow. I follow him up, staying in the debris field a little longer. When I pop into the fresh snow, its much heavier than I expected, having been warmed in the sun all day. It was still bouncy, grin inducing skiing.

Will cuts some turns in the soft but heavy, super wet snow below Dead Elk Couloir. All the debris around are from wet avalanches from the day’s heat.

We decide to stay on the north face and end up in some really nice snow directly below Halletts Chimney. This snow, protected by the mountain, was in much better health. It’s amazing how much aspect makes a difference in snow conditions.

Another group preparing to drop in

Making some pretty tele turns down the steeps.

We take one more quick lap before calling it a day. I will definitely be back up here. I’m looking at you, Dragonstail!

Garth enjoying some fine powder.

Peggy making a slash

New Published Work! Cornerstone Apartments Website

In February I did a shoot for Cornerstone Apartments in Denver with Akavit Digital Agency. We shot as the sun went down with the Denver skyline in the background. Such a great location on the roof of their newest property in Cap Hill. Excited to see it up on their site. Always fun working with Akavit and Cornerstone.

Throw Back Tuesday? Sophie Bird: Performance Violinist

Way back in 2009 I did a shoot for performance violinist Sophie Bird. I’ve been looking back at old photos for a website and re-editing some because of horrid editing techniques I used long ago.

She’s floating! I made this photograph having Sophie stand on a step ladder, then taking a photo without her and the step ladder I could easily take the step ladder out.

Also, I’m having trouble calibrating my monitors. On my Dell 24″ these photos are MUCH lighter than on my 13″ Macbook Pro. Which are you guys seeing?

Gear Review: Black Diamond Convert Touring Skis

I sold my AT skis before I was ready, and RIGHT in the middle of powder season. Huge mistake. But, on the flipside, I was tired of skiing uphill with lead weights on my feet and turning huge powder boards on so-so snow.

When I buy gear, or anything really, I tend to do a lot of research. I’d been looking at the Black Diamond Convert for a while and had only seen glowing reviews. Coming in at just over 7lbs for the pair and combined with Dynafit Radical FT, they feel ridiculously light weight in comparison.

Radical FT tech binding. Photo from the Dynafit website.

My old set up topped the scales at almost 25lbs including skis, boots, and bindings! That’s 12.5 extra pounds for every step you take. Simply too much.

I missed a couple weeks of great snow in the meantime.

Seventeen Pounds. Dynafit boots & bindings & BD Skis come in at 17lbs, a savings of 4lbs per foot per step, which is incredibly significant!

I took my new skis for test drive a Keystone Resort on a mediocre snow day. The groomers were fast, the moguls soft, but the trees were less than ideal. I was nervous using my tech bindings, two metal pins that somehow hold your boot in while you’re screaming down the mountain. I had had issues with being ejected once before on a pair of demo skis, but I had no such problems on this day.

They RIP!!! I had a blast carving at full speed on the groomers. I attacked moguls harder and faster than I ever have before, I think due to how light they are I can really throw them around. There were times when I thought I had lost a ski when I lift my foot only to see it fully connected with no hint of coming off. It was so light I just barely felt it. Honestly, I was psyched, except my first time in my boots, as with first time in any ski boot, was extremely painful (After 4 days in them they are MUCH better).

I went on a tour up to Hallitt’s Peak the next weekend. Holy Amazeballs! Going up is so easy! The Mercury boots walk so incredibly well, each stride almost twice as long as in my Salomon boots. With the tech binding you’re not lifting the back of the binding with every step, which saves a ton of energy. And everything is just so much lighter. Heaven.

By the way, Emerald Lake and Hallitt’s Peak are beautiful.

On a warm day we skied the line between Dragon’s Tail Coulouir and Dead Elk Coulouir, mostly because of the avy danger. The Converts cut through the crud and bounced in the warm, springish slush.

The Convert’s dimensions I have deemed to be about perfect. 105mm underfoot, 133mm in the tip and 117mm in the tail. Fat enough for most powder days, the tip floats, the tail sinks and you just enjoy the smile inducing powdery ride.

ME! Getting some airtime on a cornice at the closed ski resort Hidden Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park

Fly Fishing on the South Platte

I met up with Dave Blauvelt before sunrise in the Home Depot parking lot. He piled his bags into my little red Mazda and we took off down 285 South towards Bailey. The sun still hadn’t peaked over the mountains as we pulled into the parking lot near the South Platte River, south of the little mountain town of Pine, Colorado. Dave’s net and boots bounced around on the outside of his small backpack with each step on the trail. The river, blue in the morning light, snakes through the valley it carved long ago. The air was crisp, our fingers cold, ice forming on our waders as soon as they enter the water.

Dave sat on the rocks and prepared his rod and rig. I splashed around in the shallow, slow moving water protected by the rocks. Being able to freely move in water without getting wet is a fantastic feeling!

I don’t know how Dave continued to move his fingers. I had full gloves on and my hands were cold.

It took well over an hour for the sun to hit the spot we had chosen. It was very cold. So we chased the light.

Tim Schoenborn, a local guide with 5280 Angler, caught a beautiful fish and Dave netted it for him.

“ooooh, she’s a beauty! She’s a beauty fish, fishin’ beauty fish!” – Brian Regan

The constant search, seeing movement under the mirrored water, the repetition, the back and forth. It’s calming. I can understand why people would search for the beauty in the location and enjoy the process more than the fish.

Tim Schoenborn skillfully pulling fish from the South Platte

Dave nets another one

Dave holds his prize

It was a cold but fantastic morning. I still have no desire to fly fish, but I understand why people love it. It’s so methodical and really a beautiful thing to watch. I’m happy to by a half-submerged observer. I definitely will be doing more fly fishing photography. And I got back to boulder early enough to take advantage of the incredibly beautiful day and went for a nice free solo in Eldorado Canyon.

I’ve been really busy the last two weeks, in a good. Way. I’ve got some exciting news that I’ll spill later.

From the Archives: Alternative Energy

Several years ago, 2007 to be exact, I was the in-house photographer for Hirons & Co, an advertising firm out of Indianapolis. I shot a wide variety of things while I was there, but one of my favorite projects was for Wabash Valley Power Association. I traveled around the midwest capturing images of many of the WVPA’s power projects, many of which were alternative energies. Many of my images from 2007 are still on their website.

The Fair Oaks Dairy in Northern Indiana is energy self sustaining, collecting methane from the cows’ manure and burning it. This small cow, one of the lucky ones that got to be outside, was very interested in my camera. This image got a lot of play with the WVPA

These massive turbines in Illinois made the landscape so much more interesting. I wish there were more of these wind farms around Indiana.

I’m going back through my old files trying catagorize and organize them. Tedious work. I need an intern…that would work for free.

Replacing My Hard Drive with An SSD & 16GB of RAM

I’m selling off everything I own. Well, not everything, but anything extraneous I have lying around: Extra pair of boots, a lens I rarely use (Canon 8-15mm L Fisheye, message me if you’re interested), old computers, etc. I just bought a Macbook Pro. My old original white Macbook is over 8 years old! And my main editing station, a 20″ iMac is 6 years old! It was time to upgrade.

I bought the baseline Refurbished Macbook Pro, exactly the same as the one sold normally, just $200 cheaper (It doesn’t come in the fancy Apple box though). I also didn’t want the Retina. I think the Retina display is unnecessary, our eyes can’t see that much detail, and it doesn’t come with an optical drive or an ethernet cable port. So for $999 I got a Macbook Pro with 2.5 Ghz Intel Core i5 (from what I read the i7 doesn’t improve speeds for photo editing, just for video work), and 4 GB of RAM. Baseline. The specs really weren’t that much more impressive from my 6 year old iMac, BUT where it was much better was with how much I could improve the computer with aftermarket additions. My iMac had a max RAM of 4GB, the MPro 16GB. It uses Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 which is substantially faster than Firewire 400 and USB 2.0.

I bought a Samsung 840 EVO Series 250GB Solid State Drive. This alone would increase the performance of any computer. It works silently with no moving parts, and it performs faster since it doesn’t have to perform a physical search every time it tries to access data. The Crucial 16GB RAM will substantially increase performance as well.

Before installing my new SSD I cloned the hard drive of my Macbook Pro using SuperDuper! It was very easy and quick, especially since I only had 15GB worth of data on my hard drive. It creates a bootable drive that is identical to the one you’re using. There is almost nothing to set up once the new drive is installed.

The install for both of the SSD and the RAM was surprisingly easy. You have to have a #00 phillips screw driver and a T6 torque driver to complete it. You remove the bottom plate of the laptop exposing all of the internals of the computer.

In this photo I have already removed the 500GB Hard drive and am preparing to install the Samsung SSD. It’s so light weight, you pick it up and feels like there is nothing there. I’ve also already installed the 16GB of RAM. If I want in the future I can remove the optical drive (top left of the computer) and install another hard drive to give me additional space.

The actual install only took me about ten minutes.

The old Hard drive, which I now have as an external with a USB 3.0 enclosure from Sabrent, and the Samsung SSD.

The new drive installed.

You can see it now has 16GB of RAM (Memory)

and a 250GB Solid State SATA drive.

I did this substantially cheaper than buying it directly from Apple. If you have a computer from the last couple of years that you’re considering upgrading, look at boosting RAM and installing an SSD. It will make a world of difference.

Skiing East Portal – Accessible Backcountry

Last season I only really got out into the backcountry in one area, Butlers Gulch. It’s good, but has a few downsides: It’s prone to avalanche, it gets skied out like a resort, and mostly, you still have to drive I-70 to get there (I-70 on the weekends is practically impassible). This year I’ve discovered several new areas.

One of the best, which happens to be the closest, is East Portal near Rollinsville. It takes just about an hour to get there from Boulder and you never have to get on the interstate. The approach in the valley to the steep skin track is relatively short. It’s trafficked enough that the main skin track stays firm but it doesn’t get too skied out. There are plenty of trees to for protection even when the avalanche danger is high and winds are unbearable elsewhere.

A couple of weekends ago I got out with Patrick Shehan and Lee France for a Saturday/Sunday one/two punch. As you can see from the photos, it was incredible! I’m so excited to get back up there.

Patrick Hucking

Lee blasting through

And eating some soft pow pow

Despite enough head injuries to make me nervous, Patrick loves to drop pillows. As he should. Having now also dropped pillows, it’s addicting.

Myself hitting it hard, my camera on my shoulder held on by the trusty Peak Design Capture2! Photo by Patrick Shehan, aka @sanjuansherpa

This looked much bigger than it turned out to be.

The creek bed is incredibly fun and far too short. It culminates with a quick duck.

Face full of the pow pow. I want to be back there.

Sadly, the next day I sold my AT setup. BUT for good reason! I’m getting a much lighter set up! Hoping to drop roughly 4-5lbs per foot! Will be so much better for going up, and I’m excited for my new Black Diamond Skis for going down. I will have a review of my new gear once I’ve used it.

Yoga Shoot with Jessie Michaud

I’m not sure how I missed posting this. I did a yoga shoot with my friend Jessie Michaud back in May. I picked Red Rocks, which sits just above boulder, and the morning light was beautiful. Using just a reflector for fill light, the shoot went great.

I love Red Rocks in Boulder, and it took me over a year of being here before I knew about it. It’s a nice little hike that takes you to some interesting sand stone fins and overlooks downtown Boulder.

Thanks to Jessie for being such a great model, and being willing to come out super early before she had to go to work.

Jessie’s core strength is amazing. I can’t do this move.