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  • Fathers Day’s Drive 2011.

    Posted on by beno 2 Comments

    I got two presents this year. (Who’s a lucky guy?).
    Freddy is buying me a wireless USB link for my camera to laptop so that I dont have to trip over the cable when I am shooting in the studio.
    (Every single model that I have shot in the studio just loves the tethered shooting, they see their shot about 5 seconds after I take it).
    That’s in the mail (well, it will be once I order it…. haven’t had time even get on the computer and order my own present… lame), so for the actual day, Freddy wanted to know what I wanted to do.
    Since its been a while, I asked if we could go for a drive.
    Both kids immediately offered to make my day a lot more pleasant by them staying home. And they did not even know where I wanted to drive!
    So, Sunday morning, Freddy packed a picnic lunch and off we went.

    Lotsa miles, lotsa a fun.

    We had a destination in mind, Desert View Tower.
    It was a really nice drive out there. Mostly freeway, you have to hand it to the Americans, they know how to make smooth wide open freeways.
    While we were heading south on the freeway, Freddy saw a helium filled gold star balloon float over the freeway. It was pretty weird to see it float over, seemingly in the middle of no where. But, we thought nothing more of it (hold this thought).

    The tower is interesting, the guy is nice and friendly, but the view is just as good from the ground I suspect as from the top of the tower.

    Desert View Tower.
    Desert View Tower.
    Desert view

    We headed off and just found a little place to pull over to have lunch in the car (it was blowing a near gale, so had no choice). The weather was really hot (38°C) so it was just as well to sit inside the car.

    Here is the view we had for lunch.

    Lunch view.

    Heading north, we were out in the middle of the desert, driving along, minding our own business, when a helium filled gold star balloon floated over the road in front of the car.. It totally freaked us out. It just had to be the same one…..

    We then we stopped for a potty break and when we got back on the road, we noticed another side road, so off we went…. We both saw the ‘Dead End’ sign, but figured we would be Ok… heh….
    It was great to get the Rangie out into the bush again, its been a while….

    Put some nice scrub marks down the side of the car.

    Amazingly there was some really stinky water out there!

    Phew water.

    After driving through lots of soft sand and some bog holes for about an hour, we came to a sign, in the middle of a road…..

    Bomb proof Rangie?

    We had no choice but to turn around. (So who knew, the dead end sign was right.. this one time).

    Anyway, here are the stats for the day (in Kms!!!!!)

    Fathers day drive state

    There are more photos from the day in my photo gallery.


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  • Terrys flip off the tramp

    Posted on by beno 2 Comments

    So, partly in answer of Matt’s request, we did a little video of Terry doing a front flip off the tramp.
    He has been able to do this one for a while, if you remember back to my 365 days, I took a photo of him doing a front flip off a park bench when were back in the rental house…..
    Anyway, the photo is interesting, but when you see it in motion its pretty cool.
    I like it mostly because it looks like he is going to over rotate and thus end up doing a massive face plant, but he always lands it and usually follows up with a sweet roll (the roll, while not totally necessary is a big part of the whole Parkour thing… its about moving smoothly from object to object, using your body to flow around each object).

    Been busy at work, I will get a phone photo and show you one reason why some time this week hopefully. (The other 2 reasons will have to wait a bit).


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  • Back Flip

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    Here is a little video we put together of two back flips that Terry did…..
    Hes a little disappointed that he did not nail it the first time, but wow. I’m pretty chuffed that he had a go at it. Its not a bad feat, and with practice he is going to only get better.
    Soon I will get some video of him on the tramp, hes getting some nice style down on that.

    I am still having trouble holding my phone the right way, so had to rotate the video in post production. One day I will get it sorted.


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  • Mothers Day 2011

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    So after her first baseball game, Freddy decided that one day she would like to go to a pro game.
    My plan A mothers day present fell through, so when I got the chance to get some tickets to the Angles game on Sunday, I jumped at it.
    Enough to say, she loved it.

    There were around 40,000 people there!!!!!
    The energy in the crowd was pretty impressive. A little too much at times for this little introvert, but Freddy soaked it up big time.
    Anyway, traffic there and back was not too bad, and preferred parking is the way to go for sure.

    So, there you have it.
    A little unusual, but when in America… well, try and get a taste of what its all about….


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