March 13, 2009

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

March 13, 2009/ A Restless Transplant

This morning at around 9:30 AM, UPS is supposed to drop off my new Canon 5D Mark II. On Wednesday, much to my glee and surprise, my Canon 24-105mm f4.0L lens arrived ahead of schedule. Five months ago, I decided to get an a Canon XSI on a whim that I may enjoy photography. This camera opened my eyes to a new world and a passion that I never new existed.

One of the reasons I went with the 5D Mark II over a used Canon 1D or Canon 50D is the Mark II's ability to shoot 1080P video. Vincent Laforet, a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, shot this video with a Mark II and a handful of supper nice lenses.

I hope cool things will happen with my new Camera, right now (Thursday Night), I feel like a six-year-old on Christmas Eve.

Hopefully with my with my 5D and the 24-105mm I will be able to take pictures like this, yours truly at 3 years old.

Here are some more links,
Canon EOS 5D Mark II Review,
My Camera Set Up (ART),
Canon 24-105mm F4.0L Review,

March 12, 2009

I Want To Fly

March 12, 2009/ A Restless Transplant

I often dream that I can fly. Not in the Superman, defying gravity and flying straight up kind of way, but in the Batman, jumping off a building and gliding way. This unceasing desire drives me to search the internet every couple months for the latest and greatest in human gliding. Sometime in I will do this.

This is most dangerous sport in the world, I wonder why.

For $1500 you can get a state-of-the-art Phoenix Vampire 3 wingsuit. Its about as close to Batman as you can get.

Think of a wonderful thought...

Here are some more links,
BASE Jumping (WIKI),
Wingsuit Flying (Wiki),
Phoenix Wingsuits,
BLINC Magazine.

March 11, 2009

Spencer and his Brooks Brothers Duffle Coat

March 11, 2009/ A Restless Transplant

Last weekend I went to the beach with Spencer, a friend from Portland and fellow Colby student. Spencer has a modern preppy sense of style, incorporating contemporary staples like Nudie Jeans and Vans Authentics and more conventionally preppy classics like J-Crew and Brooks Brothers.

Although not preppy in the typical, Preppy Handbook way, Spencer's clothes are understated, well made, and wearable in many situations. In these photos Spencer is wearing all white Vans Authentics, a Pendleton wool shirt (under the coat), dark Nudie Jeans and a Brooks Brothers Duffle Coat (which I really like).

This block of ice was carried hundreds of feet above the shoreline by high tide, similar to the smaller blocks of ice in the mouth of the Kennebec River.

Spencer shows that preppy does not just have to be pastel polo shirts, khaki pants, and boat shoes, but can be a mix of modern and classics.

Here are some more links,
Spencer at the Beach (Picasa),
Duffle Coat (The Trad),
Duffle Coat (Wiki),
The Beach (ART).

March 10, 2009

Things To Look At While in the Loo

March 10, 2009/ A Restless Transplant

For my birthday I asked for books to look at when I was on the loo. Here is my reading material.

In the American West by Richard Avedon is my favorite photography book.

Vanity Fair: The Portraits: A Century of Icon Images has some really cool portraits by Annie Leibovitz, like this one of Jack Nicholson and Hunter S. Thompson.

Native Land Native People Form The Edward S. Curtis Collection needs no introduction.

Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska by photographer/writer Seth Kantner. This memoir describes his rural upbringings in Northern Alaska and his quest to find acceptance in modern society.