Powell

The first week of school is over and my head is spinning... it wasn't tough it's just soo different from what summer has entailed. My schedule's good and my teachers are chill buts it still school and school is... well... school.

Going to lake Powell was the perfect thing to end off this first week. It's truly amazing down there, the only way to describe it is the Grand Canyon filled with water. The vastness of the lake and the surroundings lingers over everything, our 75ft houseboat looked tiny when it was on the lake.

I was trying to shoot as much as possible and let me tell you what... we got it done. My equipment's getting to the point where everything thats not expensive is starting to break(flash cables, hot shoes, pc cords, modeling lamps, cybersyncs, and my biggest problem as of recent has been umbrellas) so down there I got some experience in ghetto rigging flash equipment to get results. One of my Cybersync receivers was out of commission so I had to do alot of playing around with the optical slave capabilities of the Alien Bees to figure out that in direct sunlight the other flash has to be directly behind the strobe within about 20 ft. For what I was doing this was definitely not gonna work out so I ended up using a remote speedlite as the trigger flash to trigger one of the Alien Bees while the other was on a cybersync. It worked and I was stoked... end of story.

Some of my favorite wake shots of the season came out of this trip and I mainly think it's because I was shooting from different places. I spent a lot more time on shore or in a tube than I did in a chase boat these last few days and it worked out well.

A few of the better ones: