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August 30, 2008
Chinns Lake
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After shooting the lunatics at the Democratic Convention all week, I needed a break. So I talked Jen into going camping and yesterday we hit a way cool camping spot on Chinns Lake, just this side of the Continental Divide. The location not too far from Alice/St. Mary's Glacier. It's a place I found about five years ago. She's actually camped up there before, but she didn't remember it. It's a pretty serious four-wheel drive trail going up there. I wouldn't recommend taking a mini-van up there or anything. We had it locked into four-wheel low for a few miles to get up there.
These images were captured with a Canon EOS 40D and two different lenses. One lens is an image stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM). The larger lens is a Canon L-Series image stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF 100-400mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM) with a 77mm circular polarizing filter and an ET-83C hood.
I've posted some of the shots as a 11 Meg (3:20) Adobe Flash slideshow(chinns_lake.swf) that you should be able to open and view with any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.). To view the slideshow, just click on the photo above.
If you want to view the slideshow as a Windows executable, you can play this version (chinns_lake.exe), and it allows you to play, pause, skip forward, etc.
Image post-processing was done in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. The slideshow was created using Imagematics Stillmotion Pro, which I highly recommend.
Click here to view the other slideshows.
The soundtrack is In This World, by Moby off of the album "18". Lyrics in extended entry.
Moby
In This World
Lordy don't leave me
All by myself(x3)
Good time's the devil
I'm a force of heaven(x3)
Lordy don't leave me
All by myself(x3)
So many time's I'm down
Down down(x3)
With the ground
Lordy don't leave me
All by myself(x3)
Whoa, in this world(x3)
Lordy don't leave me
All by myself
Posted by Rob Kiser on August 30, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Comments
Beautiful, Robert. Like the music too. I feel like I know Jennifer after seeing her in all of your slideshows. Very cool that you guys take those outdoor trips together.
Posted by: Susan Jacobs on September 2, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Many thanks. She likes to make Hoboes and Smores and build campfires. She's like me that way. I hate that our first camping trip had to come on Labor Day this year. We'd gone white water rafting and boating on Lake Evergreen, but she kept putting me off on the camping trip. Next year, I'm just going to say "Get in the truck...we're going." Also, I'm going to get a small canoe so that we can get out on the lake, I think.
Posted by: Rob Kiser on September 2, 2008 at 11:24 PM