http://atlasflynched.blogspot.com/2009/09/craziness-on-prairie.html
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Did a bunch of work to my Vulcan....
You can read Flynch's article about it here:
http://atlasflynched.blogspot.com/2009/09/craziness-on-prairie.html
http://atlasflynched.blogspot.com/2009/09/craziness-on-prairie.html
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
My old Jeep Cherokee
I found these old pics from 2006 when my buddies and my brother went weenie wheeling at Tuttle creek Off Road Park in Kansas.
My brother is driving my old beat up Jeep here in the shots.
It had allready been rolled once!
Terry's new Scout
My buddy Terry is a big Scout nut, but hasn't had one in years.
He ended up with this nice little 65' this week.
He ended up with this nice little 65' this week.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Shooting minvans
A while ago my freinds and I drug a minivan out into a feild and blasted it.
These are my pics... unless I am in them... then they were snapped by my good freind Chris Strader, well driller extraorinare.
He also terminated his lame IMAC for the occasion.
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These are shots that my buddy Robert Wurth took:
Check out his Flickrstream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zuiun/
These are my pics... unless I am in them... then they were snapped by my good freind Chris Strader, well driller extraorinare.
He also terminated his lame IMAC for the occasion.
.
These are shots that my buddy Robert Wurth took:
Check out his Flickrstream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zuiun/
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Ok, so I'm back. My bad.
Ok folks, I'm back now. Sorry for the long absence but I have been totally obsessed with my Attack Choppers blog, and life in general. This blog was always very ill defined and I never really knew what I was doing with it, but thanks to a few key blogs (Or at least the photographers great work on those blogs) I have been inspired again to get back in gear and not only give this blog more focus but to take more photos and really get out there.
I have been in bad way with my photography lately. I'm not a pro, I'm not really even an amateur, I'm just a guy from Nebraska who loves photos when they work right and loves to try to take said right photos.
Problem is/was... I got sucked into Flickr.
Flickr makes you constantly concered with what people think of your photos. It makes you worry and obsess that maybe you are "doing it wrong".
(At least it did for me.)
I used to take photos and do it for my enjoyment. And I LOVED IT. I suffered for years and years without any form of creative outlet. But, I didn't know why I was suffering.
One day I took a huge chance and bought a Canon 20D that I couldn't afford and I wasn't sure I would even be able to use it properly...and I was overwhelmed with joy at the enjoyment I got from just clicking that shutter button over and over.
Life was good as long as I had a empty memory card and a full battery.
200,000 shots later my 20D was dead and I moved on to my 40D and didn't even bat an eye... life without my camera isn't even conceivable to me now. I take it everywhere I go. But, things have changed... I use to take photos every single day. Now I can go a week without taking my camera out of my bag. Now I take "reference photos" of modifications I do to my bike to update people via Email of my projects progress.
I no longer lust for Bokeh, no longer yearn for the perfect light, no longer crave that thrill of the hunt for great photos.
It used to be that I found my own value in my photos. I didn't care what people thought.
And then came three years of Flickr.
And I have been miserable.
(not for all 3 years mind you! Just lately!)
But my stomach has been churning, my mind has been boiling... I have been remembering, yearning... pining if you will, for the days gone by.
Days when I found simple joy in my camera and knew not this evil called "public opinion".
But it took Seven photographers and/or their Blogs to shake me loose.
Seven fantastic photographers that have really reminded me of that urge to become better, to try harder, to get in there and snag that shot. I use to wander around Flickr and go:
"WOW. I want to take photos like that! I better get out there right now and get to practicing!"
FOR ME.
Not for some flickr buddies.
Not for Flickr cred.
To get better, to make totally awesome photos that I will be proud of and want to have hangin on my wall.
So here is to a new direction for the blog, to a new life for the Blog, hopefully lots of new updates, I hope and pray to a new life for my photography and my desire to learn and improve, and a huge, heartfelt thank you to the bloggers/photographers who blew my mind again and made me want to "do that".
Thank you from the bottom of my lovesick little Midwestern heart.
My brother MotoYan
http://nfkffnfk.blogspot.com/
Mattias Westfalk
http://www.mwcpjapan.blogspot.com/
Limpe Iven
http://limpeiven.blogspot.com/
http://www.limpeiven.com/
Robert Wurth
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zuiun/
http://209.188.92.44/~thestudi/
Josh Kurpius
http://kemosabeandthelodge.blogspot.com/
http://joshkurpius.com/home.html
Miriam Doan
http://bristlingbehindthecurtain.blogspot.com/
http://www.miriamdoan.com/index.php
Gary Griffins
http://goodluckphoto.blogspot.com/
http://idlehandsbook.blogspot.com/
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Killer Photo Blog : MUST SEE!
http://www.goodluckphoto.blogspot.com/
Gary Griffins outstanding photos! Go check him out and buy his book when it comes out!
http://idlehandsbook.blogspot.com/
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Absolutely freakin awesome. The best video on the web. Period.
Stolen from The Flying Dutchmans blog.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
One time some freinds and I were sitting around talking about cars...
.. and one of us posed the question:
"If you have ANY car on the planet for your enjoyment, no practical cosiderations whatsoever, what would it be?"
I thought it was a great question.
My freinds waffled, and justified and changed their answers around as people mentioned new cars, and debated... I stayed silent the whole time.
Answers ranged from Enzo's, to Gallardos, to Z06 Corvettes, to Austin Martins, to drag cars to full on resto muscle cars to everything in between.
I was the last one to answer.
No thinking was required. I always have an answer ready for that question.
"Their is only one answer for me. The Audi Quattro S1 or S2 Group B rally car."
Sadly... the only one of my freinds that knows what the S1 is... lives 1400 miles away from me.
Needless to say, I caugt a lot of flak for that one.
Sometimes being this cool is awful lonely.
I'm sure I posted this video before, but I felt like posting it again:
"If you have ANY car on the planet for your enjoyment, no practical cosiderations whatsoever, what would it be?"
I thought it was a great question.
My freinds waffled, and justified and changed their answers around as people mentioned new cars, and debated... I stayed silent the whole time.
Answers ranged from Enzo's, to Gallardos, to Z06 Corvettes, to Austin Martins, to drag cars to full on resto muscle cars to everything in between.
I was the last one to answer.
No thinking was required. I always have an answer ready for that question.
"Their is only one answer for me. The Audi Quattro S1 or S2 Group B rally car."
Sadly... the only one of my freinds that knows what the S1 is... lives 1400 miles away from me.
Needless to say, I caugt a lot of flak for that one.
Sometimes being this cool is awful lonely.
I'm sure I posted this video before, but I felt like posting it again:
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Canadian door gunners in Afganastan
Cool pics from an AWESOME site:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/
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