Time to recharge.

Well lately I have had to get a job to help keep the adventures flowing but after over a year of shooting photos full time going back to jockeying a cash register can take its toll. So after a week of editing images and working my now regular job I am in dire need of a recharge. My last road trip didn't give me much of a chance to get out into the wilds so I am going to take this four day weekend that I lucked into and I'm going over to the Superior Hiking Trail for an ultralite adventure. Hope to have some images on here by this time next week.

I hope you can get out and have your own adventure this weekend!

New River Gorge

Last summer I got myself invited to come out to the New River Gorge to shoot photos with Chris Lindner. It had been about 11 years since the last time I had been east and I didn't remember much about the area but like with all road trips I was excited to see what was gonna happen.

One of the subjects that I got good at shooting early in my career was flowing water, coming from Minnesota I had a lot to work with. But where we have lakes out east they have tons of these little streams and rivers just begging to be photographed. This was what I got to drive past as I went back and forth to camp and every morning there would be some one standing and fishing at one of about a dozen bridges that cross this river on my way into town.

This King snake was at the cliff three days in a row in the exact same spot.

Making new friends.

Chris working the crux of this project he found on my first day there. He did send it about a week after I headed home.

Chris on the upper portion of his project.

One of the coolest things about this trip was all of the really cool people I got to hang out with like Lisa Rands.

I'm feeling a bit water logged.

It's been raining here for about a week strait now and while it does put a damper on a lot of things I tend to excel in these conditions. I love bad weather, even though at the time when your out in it it does blow but those are the types of stories your gonna tell when you're sitting around having beers with friends. For a long time I used to dread bad weather just like everyone else but I could never seem to get away from it so I decided to embrace it. The following images are from a canoe trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in the fall of 2007.

Making the long portage into Wind Lake we had to cross this tree on the trail. I got there about 30 seconds too late and missed the woman without a pack on doing a turtle impersonation. She had fallen while climbing over the log and the pack threw her off balance and she landed on her back and couldn't right herself without help. The only thing that was hurt was her pride.

I was really surprised when I saw this girl in the cold and rain portaging in Crocs.

Taking a nap after a long morning of paddling and portaging.

By late afternoon the wind and rain had picked up again making it tough to shoot sharp images in the rapidly fading light.

We were all woken in the middle of the night by what sounded like a gunshot which we quickly realized a tree had snapped in the wind. It wasn't till the next morning that we realized how close this chunk of birch tree had come to hitting one of the tents.