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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I appreciate you guys checking this episode out, and I am recording for, I think, like the middle of January; man, it’s moving in already pretty fast. But I’m out here, traveling around, I finished up some stuff over in the high desert, and I was getting ready to repacking some gear after the pretty cool and pretty wet and rather cold. And I’m trying to go over some of my equipment and sort of getting it prepped and tightened up a little so that I have everything kind of packed up in a good way. And I’m putting together this packing list that will go up on my website here this week. And I also wanted to kind of talk about it on this podcast to so probably a lot of these podcasts, and I’ll try and go through and talk a little about the stuff I’ve got to pack or some of the gear I’ve got to bring for some of this outdoor kind of travel photography, multi-day trips that I do.
And it works pretty well just for outdoor camping stuff or backpacking stuff or cold weather, warm weather. So I’m going to kind of try and break down a bunch of those different pieces as I sort of move through the year through some of the various locations that I’m going to go. But I was going to kind of go through some gear stuff. Part of it first, I guess cameras, is to try and bring one or two camera bodies when I’m going on a multi-day trip. And if I usually try and get two camera bodies, I can drop over to the second one pretty quickly if something happens with the first one. And that rarely comes up. But it is also really rather lovely to have when you need that option most of the time what it is, for if it’s two bodies, it’s going to be a digital camera body. And then a film camera body with a roll of film so that I can kind of have that as an alternative to what I’m shooting. And I seldom have a problem with the camera or the battery system.
While I’m out traveling or while I’m out doing any kind of multi-day trip and stuff, and then if I do have a problem, I can sort of switch over to film for some of the art photos that I’m trying to put together. But like as you guys have probably seen in the past work or even some current black and white stuff, I’m trying to put out a lot of those are film photographs. So for a lot of the creative images that I am trying to put together, I’m trying to work through it on digital, but then. I’m also trying to capture something like one of the solid images I’m trying to get as a film frame. And that, and I’m still trying to do that, even this year into 2021. But yeah, I try and bring the two camera bodies right now. It’s the five D Mark three, and then it’s a US Along film camera that was an inexpensive canon film body that is great because it attaches to all of my higher end Canon lenses that I’ve got like the, I guess, the 17 to 40 I’ve got the 24 to 70. And then like another 50 millimeters that I’ve been bringing around a lot. So these have been great for me to kind of capture a bunch of stuff. Still, the idea to like kashered HD video stuff, if I want to on the five D I get to capture the photo stuff on the five D and worked out a lot of the different I just kind of the more like annoying parts of the photography sketch process is your kind of earlier on or maybe not in the perfect light. You’re trying to work out the layout of the composition that you’re trying to do. But once you kind of figure that out, you kind of try and come back with a phone camera and grab like a good moment with that. That’s been pretty cool. But yeah, we’re through. Yeah, those three lenses are pretty much the only kit that I try and bring, and then on some specific stuff that’s more landscape based or. or where I think I’ll specifically need, I try and get 70 to 200-millimeter zoom lenses and for a lot of time when I bring a zoom lens. I want to rent it, and that’s where I can kind of get a specific lens for that trip.
And just really put in a lot of work with that kind of specific lens and then when I’m home for a lot of the year. And I’m not utilizing that lens, and I don’t have to be paying for it, and that’s kind of what I realized is, you know. There are only several times when I’m going to be kind of trying to grab photographs with this particular type of lens either at like a tilt-shift or an extensive-angle like a wide-angle fisheye or a high compression zoom lens like 300 or 400-millimeter zoom that I’m trying to do some wildlife stuff with later into the spring I’m trying to schedule that out so that I have rental of a higher-end 300-millimeter cannon like wildlife .just what is that lens that 300 mils I fixed 300 millimeters to wildlife land I’m trying to get one of those rented, so I can take it out into the backcountry and then get out to somewhere and get some shots with it and then and then I don’t have to buy it. I don’t have to spend six grand, And I am three grand on it. So I think that’s one of my goals. But try and bring a bunch of SD cards and compact flashcards that’s sort of specific to the Canon five D Mark three that it takes both compact flash and SD. If yours only takes one or the other, I guess I’d be sort of discrete on what you select for that, that, yeah, try and load up this pouch that goes into my pro camera bag that’s got a bunch of the SD cards and compact flashcards in it. And I have it pretty well-structured so that I don’t get it too mixed up with cards, have photos on it, or cards are formatted and cleared and ready to go. So I’m able to keep that pretty straight. But yeah, it works pretty well to have this little case that I’ve got one of those minor media cases; they sell them all over.
And I have that kind of complete follow-up of cards. When I’m out, I try to have my laptop with me so that it’s in, and it’s in one of my bags in the truck. And then what I’m able to do is do like a daily edit, or as kind of after every like a more significant chunk of the project, I’m able to take the camera back to the computer, plug in the external hard drive, and then offload the photos on the card, offload the images and video into the Lightroom catalog. And also, have that kind of backup onto that external hard drive right away so that we get all the photos in a couple of spots before I get back home. And most of the time, unless I come into an emergency, I try and leave the photographs, the raw photos on the card until I get back home to the house that I have the original copy as a file saved onto the card. And then I have that card data copied into the Lightroom catalog on my laptop, and then I have that backed up onto the external drive. Sometimes if I’m dealing with bigger files and stuff, I can’t fit it all on the laptop. So it just goes straight to the external drive.
And that’s where like you don’t have three copies of it, you only have two copies of it twos better than one, one, I think is as good as zero, they say you know, it’s better than zero because you know, it’s got sometimes, but it’s kind of tricky in that sometimes if I’m in like a more delicate situation, or if well if I don’t have power, it’s kind of tricky. I remember like going, you know, days or like a week or two weeks without really getting transferred over to the laptop when I was trying to like, you know, stay out and be camped and then collect the photos. And then you kind of like go through and do minor daily edits Why’s, or look at the photographs on the camera. But you’re not able to bring those into the system and categorize them or select the photos that you want to use daily, which is a daily or every two or three days kind of basis, which is what I like to do but sometimes kind of don’t get to do when I’m out pretty far.
And definitely when it’s wet or rainy and stuff. Or man like I’ve talked about before, like the amount of time that it burns trying to like to render something or upload something or transfer something when I’ve done so much work to get everything ready and travel out into the backcountry or out into the outdoors and the nature and stuff. And I want to use that time as efficiently as possible to do something fun and cool outside. And I remember like on road trips and stuff have been on in the past, I spent I think, for my sake way too many hours, just focused in on trying to render out a clip of something to try and upload to YouTube while I was out on the road in Utah or out on the street in Idaho or something. And I feel like now I definitely shouldn’t have done that. I should have spent the time there trying to get myself out further into the field and into spending more time getting photographs of something in the place that I don’t get to do and then spend the time in the studio, when I get back home, worrying about editing stuff, uploading stuff, getting stuff copied over to hard drives, and getting clips of that uploaded to YouTube or Instagram or Facebook or wherever it was at the time. But yeah, that kind of the tricky thing is when you don’t like dealing with your internet access while you’re out traveling.
And then also kind of dealing with the amount of time you want to have to access the internet or accessing your media materials and stuff. And Instagram, as it is as a force, has sort of changed the demands of what your experiences for some outdoors stuff. But even still, as a nature photographer, I want to try and stay focused on what I’m doing outside, what I’m doing out in the woods and now taking pictures of landscapes and nature stuff, but I kind of want to stay away from Instagram or Facebook or using the apps or doing editing or like a lot of like media manipulation stuff while I’m out in the woods. I don’t want to be uploading stories to Instagram or even recording videos outside of the sort of specific or discrete piece of production that I’m trying to put together, which I am trying to do I am trying to like schedule okay. After I make coffee after I do the podcast in the morning at 930, I’m going to set up and record these like 10 minutes of videos so that I have that content that I need from that area for the future. So if I do want a set of Instagram Stories from the outward desert or the coast or the mountains or the woods or wherever it is, I have already recorded that if I was at it, And then I can use that as kind of again in any way that I want to but, but I don’t want to do that just every day. Through the day, as sometimes sort of ends up being, that’s what I used to do. And now I’m trying to schedule everything out as best I can. I try to bring micro cloud microfiber lens cloths, especially during the wet weather that I’m going through here. And the January February timetable. I try and get some stuff to help me wipe down the lenses at the front of the lenses. And then the top of it, especially when it’s kind of sprinkling that kind of like that misty sort of rain that sort of spits. It’s not like a heavy downpour. But it’s enough where you got to have your rain jacket on. And when you’re out for 10 minutes or so, you get this kind of light accumulation of tiny droplets, and they get all of your cameras and it kind of sits to soak everything faster than you sometimes think, too. But yeah, we get that over here in the Willamette Valley here. Yeah, and it’s not my favorite kind of weather. And it’s certainly not my favorite kind of weather to do a lot of shooting in. And there’s like you’re thinking like what landscape you’re getting in that I’m trying to do some misty kind of cloudy, black and white, sort of stuff in the rain. And I’m also trying to do some video and audio recording stuff in the shower, which is going pretty well. But I’m out there in the rain a lot. And it’s rainy all over Oregon right now in the wintertime. So good for me. But yeah, I’m trying to get ready to go over to the coast. For some stuff, I want to try and drive down one on one, and I wanted to make it down to the redwoods and jump into some of those more significant trees and do some photographs. Some black and white stuff; I wanted to get into some fantastic film shots that I haven’t ever done down there in the redwoods.
And I want to try and do a better job with digital images down to I think it’d be pretty cool. But let’s say you’re trying to bring a set of filters that’s in the bag; I’ve got the big stopper and the filter for some long daytime exposures that I’m trying to do have a filter ring that goes on that I’ve got a polarizer that’s in the bag. I’ve got the rain cover in that sort of part of the low pro bag. So like, I had this soft pro-Magnum 200 bags, which is kind of cool. It’s got some sort of a square look to it, sort of like an old photojournalist bag that I think low pros have been making since the 60s or something. But, but I liked the bag a lot. It’s got a hard-cased bottom kind of like this sort of like more challenging like nylon she’ll bottom that you can sort of bonk on rocks and stuff, and it keeps your cameras safe on the great inside, a heavy bag to carry around. It’s suitable for a truck traveling stuff, but it’s nice to have a little pouch or something a little smaller if you are just moving around. Still, I do load that up with the laptops generally in there. The two camera bodies are in there, mostly like all the camera equipment and the filter kits and stuff too. But in there under the neath or like on the backside of it, there’s a sleeve and zips open, and in there, there’s this attached rain cover that can jump over your, your book bears the bag if it’s raining out, and it works pretty well. To do that, I’ve used it several times. I don’t like to carry that back out into the heavy rain as much, and what I try and do is carry like the side satchel bag out into the rain.
And just do like shorter trips out and then come back into like the car cab where it’s sort of dried out to the main gear back there. And then I have a microfiber towel and another cloth, and I would like to wipe the camera stuff down. And then I don’t know open the lens too much. I don’t want to get any moisture in there. And I don’t want to get any dust or other stuff in there when I’m out here. But it’s a pretty good spot. Once it’s dried, you can get back to the car, it’s pretty durable, and you can get through using the gear using the equipment to capture images just fine. That’s pretty cool. But dealing with wet weather stuff is kind of a kind of lousy rank covers help. I have a class ever for the backpack. I have this tech wash stuff. What is it the tech wash is different? I think it is Nick. I can’t remember the name of it. But yeah, it’s like this Nick wash was the brand of Nick dry something like that. I don’t know. I can’t remember the name brand of it. But it’s this—this material. I probably talked about a couple of podcasts ago that I used to re-waterproof my GoreTex jacket, which helped a ton like re-waterproofing that, so now the water-like hits, and it just beads up and rolls off. I think it’s one of those hydrophobic materials that you can spray on and helps a ton for that Gortex nylon mixture that the rain jackets are made out of. But I also need to do that for my tent to get that waterproof, especially for a lot of this, like wet weather stuff that I’ve been doing.
Mostly I’m in the truck, but every once in a while, I’m trying to have the trek to the base camp and then do a spike camp out for the night. So I have the tent in my backpack. I go out and then set up camp there, wake up, have everything ready to go. Then I can kind of get to whatever little photo piece that I’ve trained to do then, and then type of stay for a longer period, and just sort of use my time a bit more, more smoothly, which is something I’ve been trying to practice a little. And it’s going, Okay, going out. Okay, but out and stuff has been weird and cool in the wintertime, but it’s okay and pretty fun. And it’s cool, you know, going out for like, a couple of days, and then your back home, and you’re in all the comforts of home for like four or five days of the week or something. And then yeah, just for like two or so or two, two and a half, three days, you go out and kind of put up with the elements. And it’s sort of fun. And I’ve been able to sort of pick the days pretty well so far for the last few weeks, but it works out pretty well. So yeah, other electronic stuff that I tried to bring. Oh, wait, what weather stuff?
Yeah, rain carries. I’ve been trying to use this thing to his contractor bags, like Husky contractor bags. I think they’re like 50-gallon bags are 40-gallon bags, that’s bigger than my backpacking backpack. You know, they’re real. They’re real big sacks. And they can kind of take a lot of weight into them, too. They kind of like a thicker ply to them than just like your regular, like home trash bags and stuff. Those were pretty well too. But these big contractor bags, you can like kind of hole up at the top. And then like make a poncho out of it real quick if you need that. Or you can have it be like emergency waterproof, sleeping shelter, and you can kind of like make it into a bunch of stuff. And then it also works great if you need to have an additional place to store some equipment or to keep some equipment dry. So when you have your backpacks, you can have all your gear in your backpack. But if you have a contractor bag at the bottom of your pack, or in like a pocket is that you could pull that out, lay it out, and then throw down all your equipment like your equipment, instead of under the ground, throw it straight onto this bag. And it works out well like when I’ve been in sort of wet weather, Rocky environments that are some muddy and stuff. I mean, even though it’s like I guess it’s made to go outside like this. I just feel kind of weird, like setting camera parts and camera equipment and bags and pieces down out of my backpack when it’s just in the mud or something. So yeah, these little contract bags were great and helped like a bunch, especially when it’s Yeah, kind of nastier.
Nastier outdoor weather stuff, but yeah, those helped a lot for some of the weather stuff I’ve been up to you. Extra lens class. And yeah, small towels or dish towels were great. I like the terry cloth stuff, some of the microfiber stuff that’s like authentic polyester, he doesn’t seem to want to pull up the water as well. It’s just kind of pushes it around or smears it. I hate those towels. So I try and teach those as fast as I can. A lot of the time, though, if you go down as I think, I went to one of the building supply stores, and they try to pick up a bunch of stuff all at once, but I got the contractor bags. And then I also got, so I got a bunch of dish towels like, so one of those packs are not dished towels, I guess, but shop towels like their cotton or cloth or the towels, but they’re just kind of like little, I don’t know ten by 10-inch squares that you use. And I think they use like wipe grease or something if you’re out in the shop. And then you can kind of toss them all at once and replace them because they’re pretty cheap. But those the shop towels are pretty cheap to get a hold of, you can throw them in your truck or have a bunch of them in your truck, throw it in your backpack, and then you have a couple of those just dry towels to grab as you’re trying to work through some wet weather stuff. But yeah, it’s kind of cool as it goes. I’ll sort of move through electronic stuff and get into this and some other podcasts coming out. I’m going to have to go through this stuff so many times. But bring the laptop every time laptop charger. I try and bring a small external hard drive, generally like a one terabyte drive, and that’s where all of my Lightroom catalog stuff gets stored onto. Then I have that backed up at home, so that might bring like the only copy with me that, but I am trying to back up the photos that I’m making on the go onto that hard drive.
And then I back that up to the main drive when I get back home for the project, jamming the phone and the car charger. I always tried to bring headphones which keep in the back pocket and listen to podcasts all the time, probably like everybody else. I can get a small power strip. This is good. Like having a regular power strip, you know, pretty easy cheap one having that in the truck is pretty good. Suppose I go to a place with just regular power that I can use either as a camp spot area or if I end up getting like a hotel or something while traveling further away. It’s cool because I can throw the power strip down, and then I can punch in a bunch of the utilities and stuff that I have to charge all at one time, and I can kind of keep that organized to keep it on track little better. And then, in addition to that, like a wall power strip, it’s cool to have an inverter power strip. I think they have some pretty reasonable prices online, and I picked one up, I think, for about 50 bucks. That was his power strip inverter. The plugged into the cigarette lighter in your car, and then you had like four outlets to charge stuff. Just in your car, it worked great for us, like we use that every single day on a couple of our longer roadshows. But yeah, on that first road trip we had, we had our phones for like an extra phone battery plugged in, and we have like our cell, or pardon me, our, our camera batteries plugged in. So I had a plug-in charging set up on that inverter, and then it would trickle charge up my camera battery. And I never had to worry about it was excellent. I was able to charge a bunch of equipment off of it. And I never really had an issue with power, you know, for that whole time we were out there.
And it’s fantastic. Now, with many of these rechargeable batteries, you can get a power pack or a solar pack. And you can do some trickle charging to a solar or get a solar power panel charger, and then have that USB charge down to a power pack, like a battery pack, and then have that battery pack. You know, it’ll just collect through the whole day of sunshine while you’re out doing your work and photograph and stuff. And then at night, you can take that power pack and charge up your laptop, if it’s USBC, like one of the new MacBooks is, or you can charge up your phone, of course, or you can charge up some of your other devices. And it works great, and I think to add power to the devices and stuff you have out there. And yeah, it also works great if you have the right adapters and stuff to charge up your camera as a device to, so that’s where Yeah, having the ability to have power out in the backcountry has been super successful. You know, it’s fantastic. I remember back in the day, like if you were going, I think like people that were going on, like out, I don’t know, like, if you’re going on a photography trip. You weren’t expected to be around Western society, and the idea was that you would run out of power while you’re out there. So you wouldn’t have the ability to recharge one of these batteries, so you get these battery packs, that would take double A’s, and then you would get just a whole bulk amount of double A’s would be all the power you would need for your camera for the period that you’re going to be out traveling. So if you’re going to Thailand, or you’re going to Mexico or something like that, you’d have your camera, you’d also have just your book set power for your double A’s because you just have no way of recharging that rechargeable battery like you would in the US at any hotel or your house or wherever it was. And so it’s kind of like the scheme of a lot of photojournalists traveling around, is to have that as a system. And I guess when it was a double-A system back in the, I think, the early 2000s, or maybe you know like this was when this was the first kind of coming around is that that was the first time you could get one of these solar packs. And you could get these rechargeable double A batteries and then recharge for six double-A batteries all at a time.
And then throw those back into your camera, probably film camera at the time, and then run through another ten rolls of film before you had to set another set of batteries to recharge up on your solar panel, and then juice them up and then run it back into the camera. But I guess that was the only way to do it back in the day. And then probably I don’t know what was around 2000 678 that’s when I started seeing goals zero stuff around for the first time. I got my goal zero panel in like 2011, and I think something like that. And that was just like I think it was like a seven-inch one, the Nomad. It was like a two-panel one, and it was just enough power to charge like an iPod Touch or a phone at the time. Apple devices didn’t like it at all. And goes zero is one of them I think I know, frontier or headlining companies and that kind of personal solar power system. There’s a bunch of companies out there like we’re going to get that RV places. So I like many solar inverter options that people would have if they wanted to put solar power into their RV. But just as it is for truck travel or backpackers, go zero is one of the great options. And if you want to go on Amazon and rummage around, you can find these off-brand goals zero type solar charges for really much more minor. And it’s pretty cool. You can, and I think they’re probably all Chinese-made. Like, I think I have a new four-cell solar panel charger that runs USB out. And it’s I think it’s more power than the old one that I had was, but you’re able to run that power down into a charging block. Then you’re able to run that out to your phone or an iPad or a computer or to a camera battery man that just makes things so much easier to do power on the road.
Oh, it was other stuff that I bring is as a necessary one that I kind of call every time that was the Onyx off-road app. You can also get the Onyx hunt app. It kind of depends. I guess on what kind of thing you’re looking for, the hunting app, I think, is more specific. I know it says hunt, but it is more precise to understanding the property owner at that location. So it identifies private property owners by name and then like public land and its designation and board orders that stuff. So that’s useful for a lot of reasons for a lot of people, but precisely, the stuff that I’m doing, the Onix off-road app, has just been fantastic. It’s got a lot of details on these more minor roads and trails that travel all across the state of Oregon and all across the United States; I think you get all 50 states for like something like 30 bucks a year, which is, yeah, fantastic. You get a lot of really great detail and stuff. And this has been great as a tool for me to find a bunch of campsites or a bunch of like public land locations for me to get started on a bunch of activities and stuff. And it’s cool, you can kind of chart together like, Oh, this is like a wilderness area. But see, these roads kind of come in. And there’s a trailhead that kind of starts here and then goes here. And it’s way more accurate than even like the extensive multi-page map booklets that I’ve had for each state before, like, I’ve had a Washington one, obviously, like Oregon one, you know, it’s like 90 pages, and you get, like 45 miles of like a high-resolution map on each page spread and works great. It’s cool. Yeah, it’s a good map. And there, they’re fine for their time. But as a tool to have on the phone.
I think this off-road app has been my favorite kind of my favorite tool of the year; it’s been the most useful to have, like those maps stored offline. And then when I’m back in the backcountry, I just have an exact track of the location I was, and I see a bunch of the information that has always been kind of tough for me to get before I remember, man on those relationships that I’ve gone. This information is really what I was begging for, I would get so mad that I couldn’t find the right road or the right trail, or the correct information about how rough it would get or, or if like these two roads would connect, or it was just like the little things that end up being I don’t know like it’s weird how much information is out there. But then I’m almost like how much information ends up being wrong if you have low-grade maps that are really meant for highway travel doesn’t help you out too much to have like something that’s not really at the resolution to see the off-road Forest Service roads that you want to take. So it’s cool having the Onyx app. In addition, yeah, the other cool one I got for the fall is the coast flashlights got like a whole load of them. So I got like a headlamp I’ve got. I got my black diamond headlamp to trying to run fresh batteries on these all the time or have like a little backup stash of triple-A batteries on the side to keep kind of punching in, and I notice that they last pretty well. But they kind of dim out after a while. So I’ve got, I think, like 100 lumens one in my pocket. I’ve got the cost 400 like handheld light, I’ve got a 700 lumen light in the truck. Toolbox, I’ve got a headlamp that’s rocking, and those are helped out a lot. I think I’ve just been using that Black Diamond headlamp for about six or seven years now. And it’s nice. I think that’s maybe 150 lumens, or so in this. This new headlamp is, I believe, 400 lumens, along with the handheld Coast’s torch that I’m using is another 400 lumen light. And so both of those are Yeah, it’s like a lot more light, way better spotlight than when I was using before, which is pretty nice. It’s cool having the illumination around. So yeah, that’s a lot of stuff that I’m trying to go over and pack out right now. And then I’ve also got like a bunch of the personal gear stuff.
Like the clothes, the medications, the lace, different emergency kits, and stuff, I got to try and get into that stuff, too. We’ll probably have plenty of time to kind of come up and get into that. But I’ve got many black and white photos coming out this week too, which is fantastic. I’ve got a bunch of them coming out on Instagram, and I think I’ve got like two a day coming out. I’ve got clips to clip to the podcast. I’ve been trying to set that up. So if you see that guy on Instagram, or Facebook or YouTube, I’ve got subtitled clips of the podcast and then video versions of the podcast or just you know, YouTube versions of the podcast, you’re not on a playlist on YouTube, you can go to YouTube.com forward slash Billy Newman photo to check out more than it is about. Yeah, I was trying to get the YouTube channel set up more this year. And then I’m also trying to figure out some other stuff to do with YouTube. I want to try and do something. I don’t know anything more. More is like an art project. I’m going to try and figure it out here soon, but maybe more news on that soon. It’s cool, though. I’m trying to figure out some stuff to do, and yeah,
I’ve been busy putting together different pieces, but it might go up on YouTube. I might try and put together something a little more formal too. We’ll see. But yeah, it’s fantastic. So I got some black and white photos coming up on Instagram up on the blog, and I’m I should have like another screen share up kind of talking about the black and whites and now is doing the conversions of them. I would like it that a lot of like going through doing these conversions of the black and whites, and I’m hoping to put together a photo book of all these black and white conversions of the high desert too, so I can kind of have it, have it show this is a different look at some of the work that I’ve done out there over the years and just kind of collect it and then organizing this way with these black and whites to tie it together. But one of the first images I have is this image from the high desert up in the whereas I think it was BLM land that I photographed this out in September.
And it’s a beautiful love that the view of the sky, just the sky itself is that image is excellent, but I had this kind of more substantial vignetting that was in this image and then a lot of light in the sky with the stars and so it’s at night, and you just see as a bit of the horizon with the trees kind of poking up. And then I think you can see a bright view of Jupiter and the far left to the image. And then through the rest of it, you see kind of speckling of stars in the Milky Way’s you move over towards Sagittarius and then over toward the west and, and yeah, really, I think a pretty image and I like the black and white conversion of these photos of space where you get to see kind of the Christmas of sky and relief to the black of the ground, the tree line. It’s kind of fun. I’ve got another photo here. This one is from the Lakeview area, and it’s another black and white image of the stars and the Milky Way, and in this one, you see both Jupiter and Saturn, just to the left of a solid and pronounced and of the Milky Way as it drops into Sagittarius. I think it’s like the center of the galaxy ever. You see these big thick, kind of milky sections almost opaque looking at the photograph, and it’s cool in that area.
I think when you’re looking at that tip, a Sagittarius and Scorpio the tale of Scorpio as it kind of dips into the section of the Milky Way that, but yeah, really pronounced visible in this in the field of stars around. It’s pretty cool. But it was funny. I think that was out in the Eastern Oregon area this summer when I was taking pictures. And I think I have a black and white image here that I’m looking at of where the john de River is. I think it’s a wilderness area. The john de river that I was at during the summer this day was so hot. It was like, I don’t know it was 105 or something out there, and I was just driving around to the truck trying to cool off. I think it was camped up in the mountains the night before, and then it came back down to the river basin later. I was traveling away. There’s probably like 70 miles or so from the place that I’ve woken up that day. I was crossing a forest there was confident I drove down to this section that seemed pretty remote, but really when I got down there, it was loaded with people that were there were down there with their fifth wheels and RVs kind of loaded up by the river, and it was excellent. Yeah, it’s like I like three or four feet deep right there. But a nice kind of slow-moving sort of tranquil section of the river that seemed like people would go swimming in and stuff, but the john day it’s a fantastic area out there.
I liked it a lot. And I got some other black and white so the high desert with some clouds. I got a photograph of Marina out at the beach. I think this image was taken on film on the Nikon and a few years ago, but yeah, out in the abandoned beach area. That was cool. Another black and white conversion of escape or that I had worked on this. Yeah, these little mini decks are pretty cool to put together. I think I put but built this skateboard out of another like a regular double-kick skateboard and I had kind of drawn out a line of it. And then I cut off with a saw a cut off like the top kick off it. So that now just has the single lift in the back, and it kind of reshaped the deck and then sanded it down. Put a new paint job on it.
Put new wheels on it, put new tracks on it said the board it’s fantastic. But yeah, black and white conversions in the states I was up to this image was from the Ottawa River. I think this is the Oh what he Canyon Houghton South Eastern Oregon stretches out into Nevada. I believe parts of the river tributaries go all the way out to central Nevada into Winnemucca. It’s wild how the tributaries of the Columbia and Snake River can go out so far. You think, man Wow, I like just out central Nevada drains into the Snake River drains into the Columbia River drains out to the Pacific Ocean you think wild man. But yeah, beautiful section out here in the Hawaii river Canaan. And I like this, this black and white conversion.
The color photo was excellent. And I enjoyed it. But I think it’s interesting kind of seeing some lines and the texture. And in this black and white image that we put out this week image of an Alvord nice kind of soft black and white image up in the Steens. And it was the image of the Columbia River sort of flowing out to the south. A picture of Mount Hood and the windmills is Beautiful. I love that spot. And then a photo of my dad. Yeah, I think it was kind of a blurry sort of surreal image of my dad out in this high desert sagebrush plane. And it type of goes out into the distance. But yeah, I think he’s like hiking up a hill. And this image sort of looks like a man with a hiking pole moving up. The hillside is sort of a surreal way. But yeah, another one of the black and whites and putting up this week. I think it may be an image of a comet too beautiful to see comet noise this summer. And that that was fun. And I was glad to get a bunch of good photographs of it out in the evening. And it was difficult to see in areas that were sort of more populated, with light pollution. But it was beautiful to get out into Eastern Oregon, where you get some of that crisp, desert air, and you get real crisp black sky On nights where there’s no moon. So you get almost no light pollution. You can see dim, faint objects in the night sky. And yeah, even the second magnitude comment looked just brilliant and apparent in the night sky. It especially revealed itself after a couple of seconds of long exposure, collecting the light from the content into the image frame that I captured on the camera.
So it’s kind of cool. Maybe you’ll see that one, but perhaps you want to. But that’ll probably wrap up most of the packing list and black and white photo stuff that we’ll talk about today. I’m getting ready to head out toward the coast to do some traveling stuff. And then maybe next podcast, I’ll talk to you about some other packing stuff and how that’s been holding up in the weather. And I’ll talk about, I think, some blog stuff too. I got this blog, and I’m working on how I’m backing up photos and stuff. So I have been that’s been super important how to drive fail on me like this four terabyte hard drive failed out on me back in December. So I’m trying to go back through and rebuild some of that data. And so, I’ve been kind of working on what I’m doing with my backup strategy. Fortunately, I’ve had a backup strategy that works pretty well.
So I’ve had almost all the data, and it didn’t lose anything. But I thought I’d talk about some of the stuff that I’m doing to back up photos and some things you can do to back up your photos. But I’ll get into that on one of these next episodes of the podcast coming up soon. But until then, thanks a lot for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. You can check out more of my stuff. Billy Newman photo comm you can always go to Billy Newman photo comm forward-slash support to send some money, send some help and support some of the stuff that I’m doing, help produce the photos to see on the channel and help make some content up to you. But thanks a lot for checking out this episode podcast. I’ll talk to you.