BCBounce

Due to my recent activities with school and classmates.  I have had an increasing desire to make the Iowa Sunbounce.  Which is a DIY version of the California Sunbouce.  Which is way too expensive.  The only thing stopping me in the past for the Iowa Sunbounce was the fact that it had no way to attach a flash like the CSB.  I wasn’t about to drop $110 plus shipping on a boom arm made by CSB so I decided to set out and make my own arm.

Four hours later, I realized that the answer was in front of me the whole time.  I searched through google pages, photo.net, flickr, adorama, amazon, ritz, manfrotto, CSB and many other web pages to see if I could get a clue as to how to make one.  I searched for: clamp, flash clamp, flash boom, boom, flash arm, boom clamp, boom arm, flash boom arm, flash csb, flash csb arm, etc.  You get the point.  I went and looked at the Iowa Sunbounce one more time and realized, that if I rotated the T bracket that he used and then attached the boom via bolt there, I could put a flash head for a light stand at the other end!  Simple!

Ucluelet, and Rain…

I had the time and joy of visiting Canada’s Pacific Rim National Park Reserve over the past weekend with my lovely girlfriend. We stayed in a nice little cottage in Ucluelet (just south of the actual park, on Canada’s wet coast) where we had the luxury of a dry roof over our heads. Did I mention that it rained while we were there? As we were driving from Port Alberni to Ucluelet, we had to go over Sutton Pass. With the windshield wipers on full, we drove the rain, then the slush, then the snow, and finally the rain. Never once going over around 60 km/h or turning down the wiper speed from super fast. It was our second day, we decided to go for a walk. It was raining. Not like a typical rainfall on Canada’s west coast. It was like taking a shower, with a fire hose, for an hour; only it took just 5 minutes to be that wet. Once arriving at Wickaninnish beach we (read: I) found ourselves overloaded with camera gear. I made a quick trip back to the car to drop off a few, unnecessary items. The beach was in it’s west coast beauty. Fog surrounded our small wet bodies as we wandered through the seaweed and driftwood.