My new Salsa Fargo

Last Friday I took a vacation day. I felt a little bit guilty but mostly I felt giddy. Giddy because I was riding my new Salsa Fargo that I built for an upcoming trip to Japan. My plan was simple. Go ride all day. That is exactly what I did. I put my Edge Composite […]

Reveal the Path Movie Trailer

I’m pretty darned excited about this movie. Salsa Cycles, my employer, is presenting this movie and I was fortunate enough to be there for some of the shooting of this. No, I didn’t shoot nor am I in the movie, but I got to be there and experience 1 leg of their journey. It was […]

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone. Easter is about life. Spring. New life. If you are a believer, it’s about eternal life. Hope you are having a great day. It’s beautiful here in MN. We’ve got friends and family coming over for afternoon brunch so this is short. Have a great day.

Old Point Loma Lighthouse – San Diego, California

It’s Friday and I have a great day planned. I’m taking a vacation day and heading out into the country on my Fargo. Yes, I said my Fargo. It’s been too long since I’ve gone exploring on my favorite bike. It’s about dang time. I am so excited. Hopefully, I’ll get a photo or two […]

Up north on film

Just 1 month ago I was up in northern MN riding Salsa Mukluks with friends. When I scanned these images two nights ago I was shocked. Not because of the images themselves, although I do like them quite a lot, but because of the SNOW! Wow. Just one month ago we were riding in a […]

Olympus 35 RC Rangefinder Camera

So not too long ago, I received a care package from my friend Rob. My friend Rob shares many similar passions as me and over some time had collected quite a few vintage cameras. Knowing that I have been shooting film, Rob sent me up a care package to see if they worked and if […]

Morning Gravel

Last Friday I wrote about The Important Stuff. My family is number one. You know what number two is? Me. Well…I haven’t been taking good enough care of myself and I am on a mission to fix that. In fact, I have set some personal goals. One of those is to ride a bit more […]

The Important Stuff

Over the past few months we’ve had a few friends dealing with significant things in their lives. Life changing things. This coupled with changes going on inside of me have really made me think about what is important to me. I’ve written several times that this year will be the finishing up of some commitments […]

Spring Break 2012 – San Diego, CA

So last week we woke the kids up earlier than normal and surprised them with a Spring Break trip to sunny San Diego. (Thank you frequent flyer miles!) It was a much needed family trip and we had an absolute blast. We were total tourists and loved every minute of it. When you are into […]

Break Time

I took this shot last Friday on my way home from work. It had been a glorious but hard day. It started with an awesome ride, bison & pulled pork biscuit and gravy, a ride to work, a hard day at work and and then a glorious but windy ride home. I stopped here just […]

Rangefinders

I had planned on taking today off the blog, but thanks to my friend Rob, I received a care package in the mail yesterday. Inside were 3 vintage film/rangefinder cameras. I couldn’t stop thinking about them. So…Since the theme of this week is film and old time camera gear, I thought it would be fitting […]

A wild morning

I live near Lebanon Hills Park. Lebanon Hills is an amazing place. I have biked, skied, hiked, kayaked, camped and canoed all just 1-2 miles from my home. It is one of the reasons we moved to this location 5+ years ago. There is this lake that I drive or bike by this lake everyday […]

Old vs New – Revisiting and testing

My film post on Monday has me stuck in time. Old time that is! I want to revisit my Old vs New post. Also note, I’ve moved my Old vs New to a sticky in the header area scroll bar. I’m going to be spending some time talking about this topic in the coming weeks. […]

My 2012 Film Project – February

I know it is mid March but I just got around to scanning my film from February. I made it a second month. I have to be honest, it wasn’t easy this past month as I struggled a bit not with film, but with my photographic mojo. It just wasn’t happening for me. I had […]

Up North – Winter 2012

A little over a year ago, some friends and I went up to northern Minnesota for a little fatbike trip. Upon returning, I said I wanted to back with more folks around the same time the following year and a plan was hatched. The plan was to head to Minnesota’s North Shore and ride fatbikes […]