A few new images of TNF rider Mike Hopkins and JHMR athlete Andrew Whiteford in the ever-evolving bike park at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort:
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Posts Tagged: 5d mkII
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Apr 11
A Tiny Day…
It’s closing weekend in Jackson; winter turned suddenly to spring just two days ago and this funny project – which started on a whim as a curious experiment, and quickly got a little out of hand – is finally finished. Hope you enjoy:
Music:
Thomas Newman – Any Other Name
Pink Floyd – Time (Pretty Lights Remix)
More on my influences for the video here.
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Jan 11
New Work: Abbie Miller
Evidence suggests that Abbie Miller’s new piece Man-Made, currently on display at the Factory:
1). Controls the weather.
2). May have the power to stop a 2012 cataclysm.
3). Also affects whale migration, the tides, and rarely-witnessed shark mating rituals.
Seriously though, it’s made of vinyl and one 200 foot long zipper and it’s, well, amazing. Come see for yourself. Please, no pacemakers, cats, metal objects, or bottles containing fluids over 2 oz.
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Jan 11
Factory Studios Grand Opening
Thursday, January 13 · 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Location 1255 Gregory Lane
Teton Artlab presents Factory Studios, a candy factory converted into multi-use studios for creativity. Several artists and creative organizations will call this space home, including Teton Artlab, Strapped Glass, Treefight, the Deadlocks, Caldera Collective, Abbie Miller, Meg Daly, and more to be announced.
Over 6,500 square feet of space will include a contemporary gallery, glassblowing studio, printmaking presses, and digital media lab. In addition there are 8 private studios ranging from 112 to 1,000 square feet.
Our grand opening will feature large scale art by Abbie Miller and Ben Roth, as well as an in studio performance by the Deadlocks.
Parking is ample around the building, especially on Martin Lane around Bison Lumber. See you there!
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Jan 11
Urban Exploration
Here’s a great video of urban explorer Steve Duncan poking around in the unseen wilderness above and below New York City. I heard an awesome NPR story about these guys about a week ago, and this video by Andrew Wonder came my way today (thanks, KP). It’s 26 minutes long and well worth watching.
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Jan 11
Blinded by the Light
Just got back to Jackson and it’s really, really cold, which makes for some wild lighting around town at night:
Anyone know what this phenomenon is called?
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Dec 10
Monterey Bay Aquarium
The cold waters of the Pacific around San Francisco – more specifically the Farallon Islands – are among the best habitats in the world for great white sharks. Unfortunately this isn’t a post about sharks, though I did search for shark diving outfitters this weekend and henceforth will be actively scheming up ways to make that happen. After spending a morning filling my head with visions of 18 ft. monster great whites chasing cute little seals through the kelp forests for breakfast, I decided to head to the Monterey Bay Aquarium for a dose of undersea awesome. Apparently every family living between Vancouver and Tijuana felt the same urge; the triple threat of shooting handheld in super low light, three to thirteen-inch plexiglass between camera and sea creature, and hundreds (if not millions) of screaming, whooping children (myself included) made for challenging photo conditions. Midway through the afternoon I had to retreat to the solace of the cafe for a cheeseburger and a calming beer, then back into the teeming fray for more. Some images:
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Aquariums have always captivated my imagination, and Monterey Bay is no exception. It’s as close to being a part of the ocean as an aquarium can get – Wikipedia says they pump “2000 gallons per minute of Monterey Bay ocean water, night and day, through the 100+ exhibit tanks. During the day the water is filtered for viewing clarity. During the night, raw (unfiltered) seawater is pumped through exhibits, bringing in food in the form of plankton. Waste ocean water from the aquarium is returned to the Bay. This design makes the aquarium ecologically essentially part of the ocean in the Bay, and allows the culture of organisms such as Giant Kelp which are not suitable for ordinary saltwater aquariums.” Monterey Bay is also the first aquarium in the world to successfully keep great whites; the Outer Bay exhibit regularly hosts young white sharks, and though Outer Bay was closed this time, I WILL be back next time a baby Jaws comes to stay.
edit: now featuring jellyfish video:
jellyfish from tristan greszko on Vimeo.
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Aug 10
Canon Announces New Lenses
Canon announced a whole slew of new products earlier this week, among them a really, really sweet L-series fisheye and an update to the near-perfect 300mm f/2.8L telephoto.
The new EF 8–15mm f/4L USM fisheye lens is pretty revolutionary in that it’s a zoom fisheye. Canon has never offered a 
lens like Nikon’s 10.5mm fisheye that gives 180 degree corner to corner coverage on a crop sensor. I shoot two bodies these days, a Canon 7D for action, and a Canon 5D mkII for almost everything else. The 7D uses an APS-C size sensor, which is smaller than the 5DmkII’s full-frame sensor. With lenses designed originally for 35mm film (the size of a full-frame sensor), these APS-C cameras crop and effectively magnify the image by a factor of 1.6. So unless the lens is specifically designed for the smaller sensor, this makes your wide angle lenses less wide, and telephotos, well, more telephoto. In the case of the ultra-wide, distorted fisheye, you end up with a minimal fisheye effect. It’s just sort of a semi-distorted, kinda wide angle, uhhh, weird mess. Not so any more.
Now, with the new zoom feature, everyone can use just one lens for fisheyed goodness regardless of what camera body they shoot. I bought the 7D and 5DmkII combo specifically to avoid having to commit to the bulk of the 1D series bodies. The 7D, for outdoor action photography, is arguably as good as the mkIV, and combined with the f/4L lenses, much, much lighter in a pack full of backcountry ski gear. For everything else, including action shoots with off-camera lighting, the 5D mkII is just stunning and I don’t think there’s any competition until you start talking Leica or digital medium format. I’ve resisted buying the Canon fisheye, but now I’ll have to reconsider. It’s a specific look that should NOT be overused, but it has its usefulness and can create some really fun results.
I also mentioned the EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM earlier – it’s a mid-range tele prime that’s insanely sharp, and it manages to stay sharp wide open at f/2.8 AND at the corners, with really no vignetting. It’s a thing of beauty, and the new one is lighter, has new coatings, new image stabilization and focusing functions, and should be even better than the previous version, if that’s really even possible. It also plays very nicely with the 1.4x and 2x tele extenders for brightly-lit ski and wildlife photography, giving you a ridiculous range of options:
-300mm with 5D mkII
-420mm with 5D mkII + 1.4x
-480mm with 7D + 300mm
-600mm with 5D mkII + 2x
-672mm with 7D + 300mm + 1.4x
-960mm with 7D + 300mm + 2x
The extenders scrub some speed and sharpness, but lo and behold, Canon has also announced updated EF 1.4x III and EF 2x III Extenders too. So now for a cool $7000+, a paltry sum compared with the really big Canon tele lenses, you too can get razor-sharp shots of the nose hairs of that mountain lion as it’s bounding in your general direction. AND you can shoot it hand-held without a massive tripod and dedicated tripod head so you can run like hell afterward. Thank you Canon, it’s all about survival out there…!
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Aug 10
This is America: Teton County Fair
I’ve decided to start an ongoing series of single photo posts of scenes of everyday life in the United States. I’m not planning on much interpretation and I don’t intend for the photos to carry any sort of social/political commentary, irony, or message of any kind. They’re just what’s out there. So here’s the first shot, from the opening ceremony of the Figure 8 races at this year’s Teton County Fair:
