





well here we are just a few days from a new year. will it be a new year or the very last year, or the start of the very last ? 2012 is when all hell is to break loose and the end of the (Mayan) world will end. well i guess we will find out latter in the year. until then have a happy new year.
as you can see, I have updated my site to a new cleaner site. took a while and I think I have most of the kinks out of it. let me know if you like what you see. also just added some pics to my photo blog along with my flicker account you can access both from the links on the site. I will when time permits do a review on the Canon T3i camera. I have traded I my T2i for the higher model. ill explain that during the review. keep in touch I have also started back to school again so my time is going to be limited until I get I the grove again. see ya soon also have an new avatar.. kool…………
well here I am after 20 hours of driving I make it the the Antlers of Vail resort. I rented a 1 bedroom condo with full kitchen for a little cheaper than a hotel in Denver. Vail is about an hour and a half from Denver and I’ll have to drive back and forth between the two for my photo seminar but I wanted to stay in the mountains. did I say in the mountains. shit I’m so far in between them that I hear banjo’s playing. any way I think I’ll keep this blog running as a continuous blog and just updated when needed. so on to the blog..
(update) well I took my first day or I should say my first half day and toured lions head. this is the section that my hotel is in. nice little village but right now it is very dead. nothing what so ever to do around here. I am told once the snow comes in it will be very busy. I’m the kind of guy that don’t like big crowds but it seems that hear the only time it gets to be fun is when it is crowded. hmm.
I am going to do some research and I think tomorrow I will get up early and go up to the rocky mountain park and do some site seeing there. Saturday and Sunday ill be in the seminar for digital photography so those days are already set. I was thinking of staying another night here but since it is so dead I don’t think so.
Monday I am to meet an old friend who lives here in Colorado. If so that will take care of Monday. if I get a pass for the Rockies for the whole week then ill might just head north into the Rockies for the rest of the week if not then ?? more updates to come.
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[Thurs night] its snowing right now. I’m told it could be a foot of snow by morning. WOW..
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ok so I’m cheating a little. it has been a couple of days now. Saturday and Sunday was just busy and by the time I got out of the seminars I was just to tired to do anything. so here we go…
got up Friday morning and we had about six inches of snow on the ground. I got out around 8 in the morning and am going to go to the rockie national park today. I was hoping to get on the trail ridge parkway or the fall river road. we’ll see.
well I enter the Rockies. these mountains are more beautiful when they have snow on them. the snow gives them the 3D look and they just stick out better. it turns out that you can only go up the trail ridge about a 1/4 of the way for they have closed it already because of snow. WAAAAA. same goes to the falls river road. damn next time I have to get out here in the summer for it.
if you come do it after November because most of the shops are in the dead season until the snow comes. turns out October is the off season between summer and winter stuff. good this is there are no crowds.
so on Saturday I got up early for it still had snow out. it takes me an hour and a half to get from Vail to Denver. and some of the passes on i70 had snow and ice so you had to drive slow or head on off the side of the mountain. up one side and its dry as can be and start down the other and its nothing but ice and snow.
I made it to the photo shoot. which was the main reason I came here for. the first season is for the basics of photography. this class is set up or digital cameras. learned a lot in class. some I already knew from high school but others was new. now I just have to remember what they said and put it to good use.
Sunday came and the drive in wasn’t to bad. they went over on the basics and then they showed up what to do for a photo-shoot. what we should do to compose the picture. setting the right aperture and having the right speed. then after the first half we went to another room. they had four stations set up just as a professional would do for a photo-shoot. they had models come out and pose for us. they were great they were also beautiful. we had four girls and two guys.
the models would dress in different costumes from dresses and old Russian made costume to a cowboy and skateboarder. this was assume, we shot for about and hour and a half. the models would pose for so long the switch out and get redressed into a different costume. some models dress 3-4 different times. the hosts would walk around and change the lighting and explain what and why they were doing it. all you had to do is ask for help and they would help and explain it for you.
after the shoot we had launch and during this time the two presenters were going over all the pics and criticizing them. they were saying that our group had some of the best pics out of the other courses that the had. they pulled up on a big screen and showed us what we did and explain if anything could have been don better. their were some very good shoots.
after the shoot I dove around a little and headed back to the condo in Vail. I was around nine ten o’clock at night. I was driving in the fast lane and lets just say faster the what was posted.(
) and for some reason I decided to get in the slow lane since there was nobody else out except a couple that a screamed by. in a flash I scream by a huge elk just standing in the fast lane. my heart literally stop. this beast was as tall as my explorer. his antlers were as wide as my truck and I just raced right past him. in a split second if I had been in the fast lane there would hamburger galore from both of us. I I looked up and said my thanks right then and there somebody was watching me. I’m pretty sure the elk jumped back into the woods
wow my heart still jumps when I think of it. anyway the next day, Monday, I got up checked out and headed to the southern part of town to meat a friend that we haven’t seen are talked to for almost 15+ years. that was great to get to know him again. need to keep in touch with him more.
well more to come..
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ok now where did I leave off. I have just left my friend Andy and headed to the Rockies again. the first time I went up I drove thru a small town and just found out this second time thru I am driving thru Boulder. hmm nice little town. everything out here is so spread out. to do anything you have to drive for hours to get anywhere. ok so now I’m back in the Rockies National Park. driving into the park there are cars off the side of the road. off the side you see a giant heard of elks just grazing and doing whatever they feel like. I parked, got out and started to take pictures. after that I headed down to bear lake. a nice drive, in and out of the valley’s between the mountains. didn’t see much wild life I guess they are all up the front entrance blocking traffic.
drove back to the entrance. I wanted to drive up on the trail ridge road or the falls road but both are already closed for winter. was told that there is snow already on them and driving is to hazardous so they closed them.
I was deciding if I wanted to drive 2+ hrs. to Colorado springs to see pikes peak and gods garden, which is a valley of red rocks in the middle of nowhere. but decide that I just head on home. since my ac decided to also go on vacation and quite I just started home. I had a nice time out here and drove a lot of miles. I need to get back out here in mid summer when there is more things going on. well that’s it for this blog until next time……
well I’m just checking this new journal program for my mac. i looks nice and seems to do the job . I’m just spoiled on windows programs. i just set it up to upload to my blog and it works great. smooth transactions . spell check works great. spalling is one of my weaknesses. humm lets try a picture. wow i pic a pic and
dragged it to the work sopt and it placed it there then double click to refuse size and wall its here. now well send it up to the blog to see if it works and how it looks. anyway ill post more as time permits. i have a review to write on my ne macbook pro , some camera lens, and a review on the toshiba thrive which i had and sent back. all that for latter . now i notched it will post in the section that i want but i have not figures out how to add tags and stuff so i would have to log in and adjust my tags .
have a new laptop and I’m testing a new blogging writing tool to see how well I like it. well see what happens. I have some stuff that I need to write about but it wont be for another week or so for when I’ll have some time to write about it. some reviews and some opinions coming shortly.
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Well I signed up for the Digital Photo Days seminar. I decided to go to the one in Denver Colorado. one reason is because it falls on my birthday and I thought I treat myself to a decent vaca this year and second I need to waste my vaca days. my bro will be house sitting with my boy’s(dogs). so I will have the time to myself. I will be driving out and have arranged to stay in a one room condo in Vail Colorado. its about an hour west of Denver but I rather stay up in the mountains and have some cool photo opps then stay in town plus I spend the same doing it but with a better room and view. the place ill be is the antlers of Vail. a big ski resort and I’m going at the right time just before winter so ill get 35% of my room. hell that will save me almost a grand in room fees. I have been scouting the area on Google earth and have seen some neat places I have to go to. I will be racing up there on the expressways to get more time there but on the way home ill have 3 days to get home and will be taking mostly back roads to see more of the country. highways are great if your in a hurry but to see the country you have to slow down and take the back roads and enjoy the sights. ill update when I’m out there so stay tune for more.
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
I just got a hold the pn-60 earthmate gps then a couple of days later I returned it. I just didn’t live up to my expectation. I know the street maps are not the hard core of the unit . it’s more for the outback usage. but come on just spend 300 on a gps and the road maps are 8 years outdated. wow I could see 1-2 years but not 8. I wrote a post and one response is that the roads are not the main function of the unit and the outback don’t need to be updated as much since they don’t change as much but still it seems to be out dated for something I just bought. anyway I used it a couple of times and I thought it was a pain in the ass to use. it never even got the cache loaded it kept on erroring. the compass only work once. after I had to recaliper it a dozen times. in my books I thought I was a waste and returned it. I ordered the Garmin 450t and will have it next week. well see what happens then.
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience- author unknown