Adventure

Recently I had the opportunity to rent two lenes from Lensrentals.com. A 35mm canon L, and 15mm sigma.

The short version, the 35mm shoots super sharp photos, but not very useful. The 15mm sigma. Awesome! Totally blew my expectations out of the water. I will be buying in the near future.

Below are some sample photos I took today with the 15mm.

Now for the story.

Christian said with fire in his eyes. Let’s skate board down to the bathroom! It’s a small hill, we can do it. I nervously responded with, uhhhh sure I guess. We haven’t learned downhill yet but why not…

Shortly after, boards in hand, we scout our path down the small hill. I say with a manipulative tone, Hey Chris you first. Eagerly, Chris smiles and heads down the hill. Not 5 seconds later his arbor board starts to wobble out of control. I ditch my board in fear of the inevitable crash and burn. Whoosh it nails a tree at near lightning speed. Then I look back up and Chris jumps off of his board. No words can properly describe what happened next.

He hits the ground running and just can’t seem to get a grip on the ground. He flies forward head first into the pavement. Flips heels over head, barrel rolls shoulder over shoulder and finally landing in an awakened butt in face ankles in the air position then stops. Silence rolls over the tourist as they watch in awe. He get’s up and says, “I’m good”. Jumps back on the board in an attempt to finish the hill. Not 5 seconds later his arbor boards starts to wobble. He ditches and lands perfectly on his feet. Pops a squat on the board and says I need a minute.

He survives with only scrapes, bruises and a new appreciation for hills and pavement.

You can the full screen Slideshow here

Just for today. I am attempting to throw up another feature of my site. A photolog. Not sure how it will turn out, but expect two rss feeds.

Most likely:

photo.jordanlarrigan.com
blog.jordanlarrigan.com

but also possible

jordanlarrigan.com/photo
jordanlarrigan.com/blog

We will soon see

I posted up a site to keep track of my planned excursions. Check it out and let me know if your interested in joining me on any of these trips.

http://wiki.jordanlarrigan.com/index.php/Travel

Let’s start with the setting. The battle took place high atop the Santa Monica Mountains. The rough temperature was near 110 degrees. Then there was myself, a lone hiker daring to take on the heat and insane elevation gain.

Now the battle. As I round the last corner of the hike I see my goal. A strange and bazar sandstone formation that overlooks the Pacific ocean and city of Malibu. All of a sudden I hear it. A sinister sound, rattle rattle rattle. I stop! Look down and see him. The 3 foot long beast of a rattle snake. We stare eye to eye for what seems like hours.

Whoosh a flash of light….

Then all of a sudden he perks up as if to prepare to strike… I do what any man would do. Take off my shoe and throw it at the beast. He dodges and hisses back at me. As if to mock my failed attack. I then jump back and grab my next weapon. A 4 foot long stick. I think to my self. He is 3 feet long and I have a 4 foot long stick. He still has the upper hand. At this point I really needed to assess my options. Fight the beast and reach my goal or run away and live to hike another day. I decided, fight the beat. So we went for it. I swung and he took a strike at me. Then again and again. A true battle of man vs animal. I am not sure why this happened but I decided that the stick was not the tool for the job. I threw the stick as hard as possible and charged the snake. The stick connects!!! And I tackle the snake in it’s confusion. I grab right behind his jaw and we roll around. He rattles and I roar. He wraps around me and squeezes tight as if to suck the life from me. I start to loose it. The battle is turning to his favor. Then I take one drastic move. We roll down the mountain. At some point during this 300 foot fall I manage to gain dominance of the snake and believe it or not tear his head from his snaky body with my teeth. I then stand a roar like a man..

Whoosh another flash of light, then I woke up….

Then all of a sudden he perks up as if to prepare to strike… I do what any sane man would do. Take two steps backwards then run as fast as I could down the hill. It took me around 10 min to run about 2 miles down the mountain. When I arrived back at my jeep I stared at the top in sadness as I was almost there. Shortly after my frown turned into a smirk and I decided next weekend your mine snake.

Shoot with long exposure and consently adjusted the iso. Most were shot around 6-8 seconds with 100-300 iso.

I recomend checking out the full screen slide show rather then this embedded one.

You can the full screen Slideshow here

This first adventure took place in the Malibu mountains near Stunt Road. A short butt sweat of a hike in 108 degree weather… And boy let me tell you.. I can sweat everywhere…. EVERYwhere!!! Any way here is Butt sweat hike…

You can the full screen Slideshow here

Then on Sunday someone had the brilliant idea to take on the epic challange of shopping at costco during the weekend. Needless to say this was our most challenging adventure yet.

All photos were lost during this trip. The crazy shopping cart lady stole my photos.

Later we headed to a local golf course and hit some balls around.
You can the full screen Slideshow here

Finally Moving to a solid web host!

Thanks Ilya!

What does this mean for you guys…? Nothing? Except that you will see more blogs from me. I know, exciting right…!

Recent car photoshoot… I am still noobish with cars….

You can the full screen Slideshow here

Video clip of the drive to the wine and back.

The Drive

Photo’s from the Winery. For full screen go here.

This photo is sexy blown up.

Clips from the RedBull Air races.

RedBull Air Races – San Diego