Daily Archives: June 6, 2013

Tomorrow I head to the airport for a Saturday flight to Spokane for our Palouse/Olympic workshop, then it’s on to Northern California for a the Bio Comm group workshops!!  If iI’ve learned anything in 25 years of traveling to do photography in every imaginable kind of location, it’s how to pack!!!

 

For this trip, I’m out for two weeks, will work in temps ranging from freezing to the mid 80’s, from sea level to 12,000 feet!  I may see light snow, pouring rain, thunderstorms, and wind.  I’m sharing a vehicle during the first week with my team and some other folks so I can’t over pack, what to do?

 

Clothes:  light weight but wind resistant, fast drying Nylon hiking pants from Ex-Offricio. Four pair, they can be washed and dried on the road.  They still look pretty good, though I wouldn’t wear a sport coat with them, but then no sport coats and ties on this trip!!!  5 T-shirts, and three nylon North Face, ventilated long sleeve shirts.  A Lands End Squall jacket good to freezing and not to heavy for just cool nights.  My trusty Merrill Moab Ventilator shoes.    A Gortex Marmot shell to shed rain and a baseball cap.  Oh yes, some polar fleece gloves for the cold mornings.

 

Camera Gear:  On this trip I’m taking a light,  Nikon DX system and a Fuji X mirror less system for hiking and walking.  The DX System will be the Nikon D7100, 16-85 zoom, and the new 80-400 zoom.  This will give coverage from 24mm to 600mm equivalent in just two lenses.  The 80-400 will be great in the Palouse for those long compression shots of the overlapping hills!  Lenses to give 21mm to 300mm equivalent for the Fuji.   The trick for a 67 year old man is to keep the shooting gear to the lightest possible weight,  without giving up image quality, no problems here!

 

When you have what you need, but not too much stuff, you can concentrate on making great images, and help your friends do the same, starting this weekend, I hope to share what we are seeing and capturing with you!!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim