Archive for August, 2014

This Weekend, In Taos

Posted in 5DMII, Astrophotography, Long exposures on August 30, 2014 by budbranch

I made this 15 second exposure shooting straight up off Julie’s picnic table (since I didn’t pack a tripod).  The clouds are lit by nearby Taos.  And of course, that’s the Milky Way beyond.  Way beyond.
Milky Way

IXperimentation

Posted in 5DMII, GoPro Hero3, HDR on August 21, 2014 by budbranch

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These poi spinners were captured in the span of ONE second by a GoPro Hero3+ shooting 30 frames per second. I composited the frames into a single composition…
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“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him – we have the technology!”

Posted in paragliding on August 8, 2014 by budbranch

awesome bone repair after botched paraglider landing last sunday.  sorry: no capitalization for a few weeks…screws in hand

Tater Hill

Posted in Composite, paragliding, sky on August 1, 2014 by budbranch

Random photos from the annual Tater Hill paragliding competition:

Chicken Drop

Chicken Drop

Pilot meeting

Pilot meeting

upside down

Kiting upside-down

treed paraglider

Bubba, on the hunt for a treed glider

Tater Hill

Getting high over North Point

Thorns

The thorns have thorns

GPS class

Going to GPS school

Chris Grantham

Saturday practice on Tater Hill

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