“Time for another overnight” I decided. My long time friend Dan asked if I’d be the guide and plan a small campout. …of course! So we set off, not bringing much with us. In fact, I didnt really get much done this campout… we spent most of the time catching up and talking about the future. It was actually really nice for once to bring someone along and share words of wisdom. We also had some ‘debates’ on music’s future with art, and all that stuff.. He’s a payed musician and an aspiring filmmaker… so I always enjoy picking his brain about those subjects… well because I’m an aspiring musician and a payed filmaker perse. 
Well I have way too many new toys to play with. Matt W. and I made a deal a couple weeks ago. He saw my ‘dreaded mora spoon knives’ thread and asked if I wanted to part with my collection. I then decided… why not? So I spent a couple of days obsessing over honing them ‘just right’. He sent me a picture of 20 axes and I picked two. One is a Condor woodworker (chisel grind) and the other is a strange little bird. A Sandvik that was made in Germany? So swedish steel but pounded in Germany? Very cool. I took this one with my for the overnight. Thanks again Matt. You did a really out of sight job on these. They’re both sharp, balanced, and the helves are 100% I will enjoy figuring out how to incorporate these into my daily woodwork. I hope to use the condor for building my first cabin.
Time to get lunch cooking. We’re hungry!
Another bottled nectar of the gods. My home made ancient birch wine tonic.
mmmmmm pork product
This was our cauldron of sausage and peppers.. Dan even brought rolls.
Roughed out a spoon with the new Sandvik.. this axe rules!
I shoot everything as if I were shooting a movie… I just loved the smoke here
Meet Dan. Dan has been a long time friend since my earliest days. We’ve both been playing music since we were about 12 years old. The past couple of years we haven’t had much time to hang out. So we decided we’d go on a trek and I’d get to teach him some bushcraft. He’s a car camper when he even gets time to go. I talked him into leaving his tent, promising ‘once you go tarp, you never go back’ … well he’s hooked!
I got so used to camping solo… I forgot what it was like to shoot another person. I had a bunch of fun messing with the sunlight.
This would make a great book or album cover.
I’m really starting to find something unique with my photography and bushcraft. I no longer put thought into activating the shutter. I just breathe it now. I can almost sense a moment.. then I attempt to snipe it. I’ve been on my game these days, and I no longer need to shoot a ton to come home with a nice album of photos. What you see here is pretty much exactly what I shot. I don’t really have outtakes, and will add the few more photos I have to the appropriate thread: Vision Quest
Nature is the best teacher of this science in my eyes. You get what you’re given, and nature always has some way to lend itself to your lens. It’s really what you make of it. No flashes, or fancy lenses, no altering a scene to fit a story. This is the story, the camera is now part of it.
Anyways, I always ramble don’t I?
Taught Dan another caveman kitchen method.
Dont tell anyone… I didn’t bring a corkscrew..
This image proves this bottle is nectar of the gods… it glows from within
We also talked about how the taste of the wine changed after two months. It was my first batch, and this was an amazing thing to experience. Time and bottle rotating really change the flavours.
A friend of the trail.. reminds me of iron ore when it was refined in these hills… red hot.
I’m not sure if his color coordination was intentional or not.. but it seemed to work with the photography… all red against a green backdrop. If that doesn’t pop I don’t know what does?
and the next morning we walked back into the predictable, and paved man made world…. We’re planning to camp again this weekend. I think sleeping under a tarp, really opened his mind up to why I now have tried to make this an everyday part of my life… which used to be a part of everyone’s everyday life.
Well I have way too many new toys to play with. Matt W. and I made a deal a couple weeks ago. He saw my ‘dreaded mora spoon knives’ thread and asked if I wanted to part with my collection. I then decided… why not? So I spent a couple of days obsessing over honing them ‘just right’. He sent me a picture of 20 axes and I picked two. One is a Condor woodworker (chisel grind) and the other is a strange little bird. A Sandvik that was made in Germany? So swedish steel but pounded in Germany? Very cool. I took this one with my for the overnight. Thanks again Matt. You did a really out of sight job on these. They’re both sharp, balanced, and the helves are 100% I will enjoy figuring out how to incorporate these into my daily woodwork. I hope to use the condor for building my first cabin.
Time to get lunch cooking. We’re hungry!
Another bottled nectar of the gods. My home made ancient birch wine tonic.
mmmmmm pork productThis was our cauldron of sausage and peppers.. Dan even brought rolls.Roughed out a spoon with the new Sandvik.. this axe rules!
I shoot everything as if I were shooting a movie… I just loved the smoke hereMeet Dan. Dan has been a long time friend since my earliest days. We’ve both been playing music since we were about 12 years old. The past couple of years we haven’t had much time to hang out. So we decided we’d go on a trek and I’d get to teach him some bushcraft. He’s a car camper when he even gets time to go. I talked him into leaving his tent, promising ‘once you go tarp, you never go back’ … well he’s hooked!
I got so used to camping solo… I forgot what it was like to shoot another person. I had a bunch of fun messing with the sunlight.
This would make a great book or album cover.I’m really starting to find something unique with my photography and bushcraft. I no longer put thought into activating the shutter. I just breathe it now. I can almost sense a moment.. then I attempt to snipe it. I’ve been on my game these days, and I no longer need to shoot a ton to come home with a nice album of photos. What you see here is pretty much exactly what I shot. I don’t really have outtakes, and will add the few more photos I have to the appropriate thread: Vision Quest
Nature is the best teacher of this science in my eyes. You get what you’re given, and nature always has some way to lend itself to your lens. It’s really what you make of it. No flashes, or fancy lenses, no altering a scene to fit a story. This is the story, the camera is now part of it.
Anyways, I always ramble don’t I?
Taught Dan another caveman kitchen method.
Dont tell anyone… I didn’t bring a corkscrew..This image proves this bottle is nectar of the gods… it glows from within
We also talked about how the taste of the wine changed after two months. It was my first batch, and this was an amazing thing to experience. Time and bottle rotating really change the flavours.
A friend of the trail.. reminds me of iron ore when it was refined in these hills… red hot.
I’m not sure if his color coordination was intentional or not.. but it seemed to work with the photography… all red against a green backdrop. If that doesn’t pop I don’t know what does?and the next morning we walked back into the predictable, and paved man made world…. We’re planning to camp again this weekend. I think sleeping under a tarp, really opened his mind up to why I now have tried to make this an everyday part of my life… which used to be a part of everyone’s everyday life.__________________
