with the help of a new climbing buddy from down-under, Selina! For the better part of a month, Rudy, Moot, Selina, myself, and another Bay area climber, Conrad, traveled around the greater Bay Area scouting out all the pristine rocks that line the West Coast, from Castle Rock, to the Columbia College boulders, and several stops at Mickey's Beach. Unfortunately, I still have yet to make it up to Tahoe, but word is that's a phenomenal place to climb, as well as do just about everything else fun and enjoyable in the mountains. Here's a few of the climbing shots that I've been postponing on posting. . .
For someone like me, who strives to find work off of craigslist as opposed to signing a W-2 and committing myself to one place, the greater Bay Area has proven to be extremely fruitful in the amount of random cash jobs that can be acquired. General labor/moving gigs seemed to be the majority of work I found, but every so often, I'd find someone who wanted to pay me for my photographic services. SWEET!
One of these gigs was for an Oakland based DJ who was needing some promotional shots for her website, flyers, and so on. I was lucky enough to get to hang out with her for the evening and take some shots while she brought down the house at a party in the city, but unfortunately was not wise enough to realize that the bass-bumping speaker wasn't exactly the best spot to put my remote flash, and as those situations go, I lost the ability to shoot directional lighting with an off camera flash unit. Boo, indeed! Once I got back to the house, I tried my hardest to assess the problem and try to solve it only to realize that the broken flash bulb is not something that can easily be replaced, meaning the my remote flash now sits at A1 photo in Berkeley, patiently waiting for me to come up with $240 to get it back. Oh well, that's how it goes. Here's a few of the final shots taken with my currently former remote flash.
Now, with the remote flash gone, and the house sitting gig over, Moot and I have made our way down to Santa Cruz to soak up some sun and live the beach life for a bit, at least until the Fall/Winter, when we REALLY hope to have enough cash to get back on the road and do the bouldering tour once again, but until then, this is a pretty sweet place to be!
And that's what's new.
