Sasquatch!

You all know that classic Sasquatch film right? Where it's walking by some trees and turns to look at the camera for a second and then keeps walking. It's really blurry and grainy, and shaky. I think last June I spotted him again. This time he was in my parents' driveway, and he was riding a unicycle around me in circles. Yep, it was either the Sasquatch, or it was my brother caught on old, degraded film. One of the two.

Alaska... kinda smelly

Welcome to the view from the World’s Smelliest Rest Stop! Located somewhere outside of Denali National Park, this rest stop was seriously foul. It had a pretty view of Mt. McKinley, and of this river, but man, the odorous nature of the environment permitted us to stay only long enough to take the quick hike up to the lookout point and then back to the car. I don’t know what it was, but the consensus for the whole trip was that Alaska was, in general, “kinda smelly.” It didn’t detract at all from the trip, but did lend itself to our amusement.

3 things wrong with this dock

I don’t really know why this dock is here. Well, that’s not entirely true; it’s clearly for boats to tie up to, but when you really examine this dock you have to wonder what it’s doing.

First of all, it was amazingly hard to get to the dock from the road and cabin area. Someone had cut down a tree, and was in the process of very slowly burning it, so perhaps normally there is a path down. But as it was, you had to climb around this tree, down some serious rocks, and through shin deep ash. That’s the first problem of many.

The second problem is that there is no protection for the boats tied to it. They’re just sitting there in the open water, getting slammed by wakes. It would be far more effective if it had a slip, or was configured differently to offer protection.
Although this next problem is not normally a problem, right now it is. The water is unusually low because of dam maintenance, so even driving to this dock is probably somewhat dangerous in anything but a WaveRunner.

Other than this dock being questionably placed, everything about the cabin at Toronto lake was great!

Have a good day. See you tomorrow.



(I already posted this one, but this is the "path" down to the dock)

new site!

Welcome to my new site. I felt like the old one was too stuffy. jeremyjewell Photography? What am I, a business? No, I'm just a guy with some cameras. Lots of cameras. Speaking of cameras.. I bought this freaking sweet Hasselblad a couple weeks ago. This is one hell of a camera. The first time I played with one in the camera shop in Irvine, I had no clue what I was doing. Luckily the fella behind the counter showed me how it worked a little bit. I almost bought a really janky one that day at an amazing price, but it had some mechanical issues, so I said no thanks. I finally found one at a good price and jumped on it. After I got it, I met this really nice lady named Rachel for lunch and she showed me the in's and out's of it. I'm sure this is all very boring, so I'm sorry, but I need to give credit where credit is due. So I'd also like to thank my friend hannah for first of all, making me do film photography, then urging me to get a Hassy, then introducing me to Rachel.

Sorry for the boringness, really. Here are some pictures I took with it. The first one was not at the lake, the rest were at the lake. Except for the last one; that one also was not at the lake.

Oh yeah, before the pictures I'd suggest you check out my Flickr from time to time. I probably won't post all my Flickr pictures on here. I will however give sneak peaks of pictures on here before they can be seen on Flickr, so there's your incentive to visit here. Plus you get to read my thoughts. No matter how boring they may be. Usually they'll be exciting and entertaining.. Entertaining at least. Also if you want to see these baby's bigger, just click on them! If it says you can't see it, it's just because it's one of the sneak preview ones, so wait a few days and come back to see it big.

Oh one more thing, my cousin told me the other week that my aunt didn't know I was doing a 365 project (where I take and share a picture every day for a year). Well, I am, and I post them ALL on my Flickr, so check that out already. There's always a link at the top of this site. There's also a nifty thing at the bottom that shows my last 9 uploads to Flickr.

Oh sorry, but one last thing, I imported all my old posts, so the archive is still alive and well. Sadly, the email notification feature will not be joining my new site. Unless there is overwhelming demand, in which case I can shoot you an email every time I post. If you want it, just email me, call me, or yell at me.




Josh was skipping some rocks on the water, so I was all "hey huck a big rock in there" so he did.








And of course, me!