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Just woke up a little bit ago. Took a mega power nap. Probably gonna be up all night now. haha Here's the video of Aaron going off the drop off. If you're wondering what he walks over to pick up, it's his shoe. Yep, he never wears boots and won't ever listen to us. Not sure why it didn't process as wide screen. The preview looks like it is but then plays narrow. The slow-mo is at 2:02

I know, just looked funny in the video. Seemed like water was the last thing on his mind. He looked like he was still seeing stars and hadn't even composed himself yet when you asked.

Fuggin Adam. Bam, nasty crash. 2 seconds later, "that sucked. do you want some water?". wtf? Great video though. You always capture the nasty sh*t. Now nobody is ever going to ride in front of you again.

What a great turnout! It was an awesome 5 hours of duning today with a couple minor mishaps, but nothing too major. It was about 76 degrees when we pulled in at 5:30 and we stayed until about 10:30 when it reached about 100°. There was a real nice steady breeze all morning long and it never once felt too warm. I think we got 3-4 good rides in. Some of the group split off and did their own thing, but most of the time we had a pretty good size train of quads. The minor mishaps: 1) Dune Cruzer took a pretty bad spill after launching off a good size razorback. He took a line 3-4 ft to the right of where sandslug went over and must have come in a little too hot. It was a pretty big drop and he landed sideways blowing out 3 of his 4 tires. There was a little damage to the plastics and he got a little beat up. His leg got hurt but he was able to still walk. It was a miracle he didn't get seriously hurt. After some help from the H Town guys, we got his tires aired back up. He wasn't up to riding back so someone else rode his quad back and he hitched a ride with desertdweller. That was a bummer that it happened so early. It was about half way through our 1st ride almost to the north pole. He got loaded up and headed home because he was sore. Heal up bud! 2) Sand YFZ pretty much jumped Banshee Hill! Me, him and sandslug were racing up Banshee Hill when Aaron came up on a nasty 10-12 ft drop off with a witches eye that blended right into the the hill. He glanced back at Mike wondering why he was slowing down, looked back and he was at the edge. Luckily he had a good amount of speed still and he flew right off the edge completely clearing the nasty part. He landed hard and busted his chin open on the bars. He also burned his leg on the pipe. We were happy he was ok for the most part. It could have been really bad. Here's the best part- Mike had my Go Pro rolling on his helmet and caught the whole thing. I'll post up a clip. Just goes to show how dangerous those dunes are in the summertime. They can bite back pretty hard and you gotta be extremely cautious. Despite the couple crashes, we all had a blast. It was good having Bert back out with us on the quads. Felt like the old days. The June dune rideswere awesome, the company was great, and the weather cooperated very well. I have a ton of video and a few pics but here are a few cel phone photos first. loaded up at the gas station Some awesome dunes At the end of the day I was all smiles

Bummer Elkzok. There will be more though. We'll hook up! Time for bed. See you guys either at the gas station or Dumont!

Bert didn't you read the 1st post? Are you for sure in or what? You need to call me if we are carpooling. I don't know if we can fit 5 bikes. Might have to get creative.

I need to know who else is meeting us at the gas station. If everyone who posted is already there, we wont wait around for no reason.

Nice series, Eddy

That's a sad deal. Race in Peace

We'll make that first run VERY long!

Ummmm :saywha: http://vimeo.com/54905529

Those are some fantastic shots, Tim. I love old skool bikes...and chicks a$$es too. lol It's fine.

Got my new lenses the other day. I need to swap it out for Saturday's ride!

I gave the ole Craptor another swift kick last night. It's good to go for another session of abuse.

It made sense to me! Lol

I thought of trying to merge a couple different exposure shots. After some reading, I realized f/8-11 is usually the best aperture for long exposure night shots. I think I'm going to give it another try one of these nights soon. I took these around 11PM so the light in the sky was long gone. I'll go back there a little earlier next time. Thanks for the tips.

I'll have to pull up the exif data when I get home to be sure, but I went towards the end of 20 to try to prevent overexposure. I've never used a neutral density filter, but I wonder if that could help with the bright sign. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Eddy. That's a great shot. Did you have to create some light on the sign or did it end up getting some reflected light? Very nice website and work! The portraits are very good quality stuff.

Anyone else getting stoked?

This thread needs a . It's long overdue! I finally bought a remote shutter for my 50D. I went out last night playing around with it to capture some Vegas night lights. The Vegas Strip skyline. The welcome sign with some LV Blvd traffic streaks It was a little tricky getting this shot. I wanted long enough exposure for some good traffic light streaks but it ended up blowing out the sign a little. A wider lens works better for these kinds of shots but I didn't have one. I think this was 45 seconds. Taken along the 215