The Adventures of John

Some pictures. . .

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Not much action on the blog lately, most of it ends up on facebook these days. . .

Trees

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they grow them big out here

New York City

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Trip #1. It only takes an hour, it won't be the last!

Bozeman to New Jersey

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Our trip over to the east has gone well so far, here are a few pics from the last day in Bozeman and first days in New Jersey.

Baldy 6.21.2011

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Duckies!

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Quite possibly the funniest creatures in the world to watch.

Rainy day

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The tree in front of our apartment building has an aphid problem.

Spring!

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At least it's spring where there isn't 10' of snow on the ground still.

Story Mill

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From what I can tell it's been closed since 1976.

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Is it summer yet?

Mexico

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A couple from the drive to the Salt Lake airport and a few from the beach in Baja. We drove from Bozeman to Salt Lake, Flew to LA and then drove about half way down the Baja Peninsula to Costa Brava. Lots more where these came from. . .

My parents live in a zoo

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Not literally, but between the python, pheasants, turkeys and deer it feels that way sometimes.

Hungry Birds

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The Chickadees up at Bridger Bowl are ready for the crowds to start feeding them again!

Some pictures. . .

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Halloween

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Fall update

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Here's a couple pictures from the last week, which included a night ride, day rides, and the worst pinch flat I've ever gotten. And a telephone pole, and Robocop.

New Camera

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Just got a Rebel t2i in the mail, here's a few of the first pictures I've taken with it.

old vs. new

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I was using my 2 year old digital camera as an exposure meter for my grandpa's 50 year old Rolleiflex. It is pretty cool how well that old camera works. . . .

Home on the range

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See it down there?

Some pics of an old house outside of Three forks near Lewis and Clark Caverns. There are a few for sale on my website too.

Mining

2010-09-08T17:10:00.000-07:00

We did some exploring in the Tobacco roots last weekend in search of good bike trails. We found some good ones and bad ones, but the most interesting things up there where the old mine ruins. Here are a few pics from one of them.

Cats and Grassy Mountains

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Grassy Mountain, and Ernesto

Flowers (mostly)

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The late evening light gets better this time of year. These are with the new lens to, a sigma 17-70 2.8-4 macro. I like it a lot so far, it's very versatile and sharper than the old canon 17-85 I've been using for years.

Barrel opening

2010-08-14T10:54:00.000-07:00

The opening went great, thanks to everyone for the nice comments and support!

The pictures will be up till the end of the month so come on down to Barrel and check them out if you missed it.

Art Walk opening

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Come see some panoramic bike and snowboard mountaineering pictures at Barrel Mountaineering this Friday the thirteenth!

Magpie

2010-08-05T12:14:00.000-07:00

I've got some more pics in the Bozeman Magpie in an article about the alleycat races. It was a pretty fun gig chasing bikers around with a camera for a few hours. Check it out:

recent pics

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I'm not very good about updating this when it's light out till nine. Here's some pics from the last couple weeks.

Some dam photos

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And one non dam photo

Canyon Ferry Dam at night. 15-30 second exposures make the water in the river and the spillway look really smooth.

Night poppies

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fresh shots

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From the last week or so. It's summer in Montana for the most part, although there is a little bit more afternoon rain than I would prefer.

More Gallery pics

2010-06-22T20:07:00.000-07:00

New photo site

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I just signed up for Zenfolio, check out the site. www.johnparkerphoto.com

Here's a pic from the Emerson Show. It will be up till the 6th of July, so stop by and check it out if you haven't.

Emerson Show Tomorrow!

2010-06-10T16:13:00.000-07:00

I am proud to be the opening act for the new [Art Project] Gallery in the Emerson Cultural Center. The reception is tomorrow June 11th during the art walk 5-8pm. Hope to see you there!

Lens Repair

2010-06-04T10:15:00.000-07:00

I had a surprisingly painless lens repair experience last night (so far). My canon EF-S 17-85 zoom was sticking halfway through the zoom range. It turned out it was due to a loose screw inside the lens that was catching. I tightened it up and put it back together. Seems to work so far. There was two tricky parts- there is a sliding brush inside the lens that must be there to communicate the zoom position through the rest of the lens and the to the camera that is easy to bend. The other tricky thing was the front optic is mounted on a sliding mount that adjusts focus (I assume). I marked this with a knife scratch before disassembling and put it back together the same way.

The brushes that are easy to bend

The brushes slide on the contacts on the lower left when the zoom is changed
The loose screw

Birds!

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Lots of birds in Florence this trip too!

preparations

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for the show. June 11th at the Emerson, first art walk of the year!

Emerson Show Poster

2010-05-11T15:43:00.001-07:00

I have a show at the Emerson in Bozeman next month, here's a poster. It will be featuring mostly abstract and landscape photos, but there will be some sports action in there too. If you are in town, come on by for the opening during the first Art Walk of the season!

Sierras

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This is the first set of pics from my recent trip to snowboard in the Eastern Sierras. It was a long drive down there, but 6 days of snowboarding in the sun and soaking in hot springs made it worth the drive.

Recent Photos

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Crazies, Bridgers, Tobacco Roots

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All lined up.

Absarokas

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Most notable is Cowen peak in the center

Tetons

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From late last summer. Notice the giant RV's on the road. Clearly the best way to enjoy our nations national parks.

Goat!

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Late last summer in the north Bridgers

Germany pictures up

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OK, here are a pile of pics from Germany, some new some old.

Click the pic to see the album

more München

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It's a triumphal arch that used to be a monument to the strength of the Bavarian army, but the inscription now reflects on the value of peace. "Dedicated to victory, destroyed in war, exhorting in peace."

Snowball!

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A very tolerant cat when it comes to photography

Back in Bozeman

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(Denver)

Made it home again after a marathon of traveling featuring an extra night in Calgary courtesy of Canadian Airlines and the always fun drive from Denver to Montana. (last photo by Sabrina)

München

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Jeremy Jones

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The man, the legend. He's making some nice looking boards now too. From my trip to ISPO for my employer, Spark R&D.

Köln

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Otherwise known as Cologne. The first thing you see when you get out of the train is the cathedral. For ein Euro you can climb to the top of the belfry, about 500ft, and get dizzy looking down. And then get more dizzy walking down the tiny spiral staircase all the way down.

Xanten

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Deutschland

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Ducks again!

2010-01-23T20:09:00.001-08:00

Here's a couple more shots of ducks, this time taken with my new Vivitar 285HV and a cactus v4 radio trigger. These ducks didn't seem to mind as they munched on old bread heels and scrambled comically after them.

Roadside Art

2010-01-20T16:23:00.000-08:00

Anyone know about this guy? I remember reading in an airline magazine about this kind of thing on a larger scale in Brazil. Seen near Page, Arizona.

Hoover Dam Bridge

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It is an impressive construction project. Check out the port-a-potties on the bottom support.

Balloons

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Near Phoenix we saw some hot air balloons.

bzzzz

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The birds

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Arizona

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It was another great trip to Arizona to get some sun during the darkest time of the year. Here are a couple of pictures, they all link to an album of more.

Near Phoenix

Phoenix bee

White Tanks

South Mountain

Arizona preview

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Happy Holidays!

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We're heading down to Arizona again!

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More pictures on Picasa too, Link

Turkey day

2009-11-29T09:57:00.000-08:00

Home for thanksgiving, lots of food and animal watching from the window.

Ducks

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They are funny. Snowboarding is pretty fun too, although cold.

Still riding in November. . .

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Some fall biking pics. Night riding shots take forever to set up, and are easy to ruin. Notice the red line from the glowing button on the flash as I walked in front of the camera. Took me a while to figure out what that was.

Halloween

2009-11-03T20:51:00.000-08:00

Story Mansion was all lit up.

and here's a couple from the Mulecross Cyclocross race earlier that day. Thanks Chris for lending me the flash, now I need one

More Here

Biking

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late season biking a week ago

Flowers

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Approaching BZN

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October Snowboading

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Not bad, but I'm not racing back up there till it snows a little more.

Winter

2009-10-07T10:57:00.000-07:00

So we skipped Fall in Bozeman. It's snowing hard outside for the second or third time this week and the low temp on Friday is forecast to be 2. So much for biking. . .

bike magazine!

2009-10-01T07:33:00.000-07:00

So I recieved a text message yesterday from a secondhand source that I had been published in bike magazine, which has been a goal of mine since I started taking pictures of people biking. Sure enough, when I got home I had a 1/2 page pic in the buzz section. Sweet!

Rubber Boa

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These little guys are cool snakes. Spotted on Sypes Canyon trail.

Blackmore

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There is a lot of cool light this time of year in the evenings

Colorado

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The Legendary 401 in Crested Butte

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somewhere in Wyoming.

Moose!

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From Rock Creek. Mom and baby (fawn? calf?) and then dad the next day.

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Biking Sacajawea

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More goats up there, and the 50 feet of unridable trail is down to 10, although there is another 10 or so on the bottom section we didn't ride too. Pretty fun downhill all and all, and the climb is tough but not so bad once you give up on pedaling and push your bike. Definately going back

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Photo Show

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Come see some of my photos of mountain biking at Bangtail Bikes on Friday during the Artwalk

Hyalite Peak

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It is a cool peak to bike from, even though you have to climb up the beginning of a new glacier to get there.

The Shafthouse Trail

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It is in good shape, but could use some more bike traffic.

Here's one you might have seen already, first time we have drug bikes up to Sacajawea. There was about 20 feet on the way down we didn't ride, gonna have to get back up there again with some new tires and try it again. We rode down Corbly Gulch, which was basically a contest of who could ride the most rocks without endoing.

America's Birthday

2009-07-09T12:21:00.000-07:00

Here's a couple pics from a fourth of July weekend on Flathead Lake

Ridgeride

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Smith River

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picture by Sabrina

From the car window

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moo

From the car window

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Bird!

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I think it is a Grackle

Baldy!

2009-06-06T15:12:00.001-07:00

Went biking in a cloud on Mount Baldy yesterday. It's snowing up there hard now, actually it's snowing pretty hard in town now too. Welcome to June in Bozeman.

Italian Peaks

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This trail is now closed to bikes under the new Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Forest plan

Rainier topo

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Rainier, Fuhrer Finger

2009-05-22T16:34:00.000-07:00

We climbed and skied/snowboarded the Fuhrer Finger on Mount Ranier last weekend. It was my second trip up there and a much more interesting route than the first. More pics here

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From Drop Box

happy graduation

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a present to myself. Yeti 575 frame.

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April Powder yesterday in the shade

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from colorado springs

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