Back in Montana
I just arrived in Kalispell yesterday afternoon to start my next RMSP adventure. It hasn’t started out as well as I’d like since one of my bags didn’t arrive in Kalispell. Many photo accessories and my Gitzo graphite tripod were in that bag, so hopefully it’s just delayed.
Got to the storage place and the Outback started without a problem. I then sorted through all the things I thought I’d need for this trip. Hopefully, I’ll get to ski, too, while I’m here in the mountains. I’ll have to get some ski clothes, if they can’t find my bag.
So, here’s my tentative schedule for this tour of NW and SW Montana:
Thurs January 21 Skiing at Whitefish Mountain Resort
Fri January 22 Sunrise at Lake MacDonald in Glacier Park. Skiing again.
Sat January 23 Up early for the drive down to Missoula. Lightroom Workshop at RMSP
Sun January 24 Lightroom Workshop at RMSP
Mon January 25 Exploring Missoula
Tues January 26 Drive to Bozeman
Wed January 27 Skiing at Bridger Bowl
Thurs January 28 Skiing at Bridger Bowl. Drive to Gardiner
Fri January 29 Sunrise in Yellowstone!!!
Sat January 30 Workshop starts at 7pm at the Best Western
Sun January 31 Workshop based out of Gardiner
Mon February 1
Tues February 2 Snow coach ride to the Snow Lodge at Old Faithful via ???
Wed February 3 Workshop based out of Old Faithful
Thurs February 4 Snow coach ride back to Gardiner via ???
Fri February 5 Workshop ends at noon.
Sat February 6 Maybe some skiing in Whitefish.
Sun February 7 Put the car back in storage and catch the plane back to reality.
I’m sitting in Mike and Marie Shaw’s lovely home in Whitefish. I’ve just purchased onOne Software’s FocalPoint 2 since they are offering $40 off the retail price of $159. It’s supposed to provide selective focus when you forget to open up your apeture. I’ll have to check out how it works.
I’m also going to check out a few other hardware and software products on this trip:
Wacom Cintiq 12wx pen tablet
Diamond BVU195 HD USB Display Adapter
Samsung – 20″ Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD Monitor
Sigma 50-500mm f/4-6.3 EX DG HSM Autofocus Lens for Nikon AF-D with 1.4x teleconverter
Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited
Helicon Focus
Nik Software Viveza 2
Hope my bag is found soon…
January 21st, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Hope you find your bag soon. It’s working
January 21st, 2010 at 9:09 pm
It’s hard to type with a three year old helping ugg!
January 21st, 2010 at 11:33 pm
I spent most of yesterday afternoon and evening figuring out what I was going to do if my bag was lost.
I started an inventory of everything I could remember packing in that bag. Wow, there was a lot of important stuff for the workshop in it. Battery chargers, AC adapters, lens and sensor cleaning supplies, and all my winter clothes. It would have been a real pain to try to replace all that before the workshop started.
But a phone call from the delivery service came just as we were pulling out of the road from Whitefish Mountain Resort change my day. A half hour later I was unpacking the bag and feeling quite a bit better.