As we approach the end of 2009, I want to share some photos from a few more of our favorite shoots from this year. This post and the next one feature photos of Eleanor, an utterly charming one-year-old redhead. We spent part of an afternoon at Natural Bridges park with Eleanor and her parents back in October. She wasn’t so sure about the whole photo shoot thing at first, but with some help from her mom and dad, she warmed up for the camera.
Smiling or scowling, Eleanor is completely adorable. From time to time, her parents misted her with a spray bottle full of water and the result was always hilarious. This first post shows some of her goofiest expressions.
The current issue of National Geographic features a huge, fold-out portrait of a 1,500 year old, 300 foot tall Redwood tree. It’s an actual portrait, too – not something that looks like it was taken from toddler-level. So how’d the photographer do it? He built a rig that contained three high-end (Canon) cameras, attached the rig to a vertical dolly, and came up with a total of 83 individual photos that were stitched together in a mosaic to make one ginormous portrait.
Here’s the rig:
Those six devices to either side of the cameras are Pocket Wizard Plus IIs – wireless camera
and flash triggers that have a range of about 1600 feet.
Last Sunday, The Girl and I attended the Maker Faire. What’s the Maker Faire, you ask? Well, it’s a lot of things. Mostly it’s a bunch of oddly creative people making oddly creative things in oddly creative ways. It’s sort of like what would happen if Burning Man crashed into Cirque du Soleil while Cirque du Soleil was busy ingesting a county fair.
There are robots. There are Legos. There are cars that run on trash and walnut shells. There are victorian houses on wheels, and giant copper snails and tesla coils and furry cars and fire trucks that shoot fire and lots and lots of people in top hats and corsets (sometimes at the same time).
And of course, I took pictures. Lots and lots of pictures:
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