Ann & Dan’s Excellent Adventures
Ann and Dan's Grand Fall Adventure - Beast!
Ann and I hit the road this morning on our 2018 Grand Fall Adventure, but we’d be remiss to not blog about Beast as the adventure begins. She’s our traveling companion (along with Jack) and then some. Without her, we wouldn’t be going anywhere. Well, at least not in the style to which we’ve become accustomed. And since we haven’t really done a good walk around/through of Beast, it’s about time we do just that. Face it, Beast is going to be our off-road mobile home for the next month. That and the fact that Ann and I never pass up an opportunity to show her off!
Join Us On Our Adventure!
As is too often the case, the weekend before our trip found us as busy as ever. I wound up having to work, at least part of the day, while getting things ready for our trip. While I was busy working on a LUBA brief, Ann was doing her magic to figure out not ONE, but TWO ways for you to follow us during our journey - without me even having to blog about it during the trip! Read on to see how to join Beast, Jack, Ann and me on our 2018 Grand Fall Adventure!
32 Minutes
A few weeks ago I was going through some older images from our trip to Bryce Canyon back in 2015. As I looked at the images I realized that several of them made a nice example of what happens to light on the edges of the day - in this case sunset - and why Ann and I try to photograph during those periods. It’s also a lesson on why patience and waiting can be so valuable with photography. So here’s how much the light can change in 32 minutes!
Ann and Dan's Grand Fall Adventure - Gear Edition
If you haven’t explored our website and found the “Gotta Get the Gear” video - STOP - you should head over to the MORE on the top menu bar and go to the OUR GEAR dropdown menu link and watch the Portlandia - Get the Gear video (linked page - so you don’t even have to navigate there). It explains everything. Well, pretty much everything about the next two posts. Now that you’ve done that, let’s talk about the camera gear and back-up solutions Ann and I will be using this trip.
Dodging a bullet!
WARNING! If you’re the type of person who gets queasy looking at injured body parts, you should seriously consider not continuing and, instead, wait for the next blog post. Really, you should. Now, if you’re the kind of person who is likely to say, “Heck, that’s nothing, I was hoping to see a compound fracture with the bone sticking out of the skin!” then you might as well read on. You’ve been warned.
Ann and Dan's Grand Fall Adventure - Where in the hell are we going?
As we mentioned quite a while back, our strategy this year has been to take a series of long-weekend trips throughout the year so we could save up for one, month-long, grand adventure in the Fall. Well, Fall is coming and it’s time to start spilling the beans about what is going to be our adventure for the months of September and October. What better way to start than by discussing where in the world we’ve decided to go - subject to change of course!
2018 August Adventure - Family Time
Our August adventure was somewhat different than our others this year, it was more about family than about photography. And though there was still some of that, it was still an adventure and well worth documenting.
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