Posted 11/18/05
Good photos- what does it take to get results?
I've been interested in Photography and being able to document the adventures
my friends and have on our bikes, skateboards, and snowboards for years.
I've owned a number of cameras since I received my first one on my 16th
birthday. None of them has ever been capable of producing the images I
had hoped for. That is, until last year, when I made the investment in
a Prosumer level SLR body.
Having the right tool has made all the difference. -more on this soon.
Posted 11/16/05
added second page to "Pleasanton BMX Park" Photo Essay
I've added some additional photos and a second page to the Pleasanton
Photo Essay, to show a bit more of the parkscape.
>page 1
>page 2
One of my favorite places to ride in the Bay Area has been the Pleasanton
Bmx Park. Every time I am out there, I ride until I'm exhausted. I can't
wait until I'm healthy enough to ride there again. I've been going though
my pictures folder, and it turns out I have a few more pictures I wanted
to share. >>more
Posted 11/8/05
Injury update
Sunday marked week 5 in the cast. It has been a busy couple of weeks
since I've been able to work on the site. The big news for me was moving
from Oakland to San Francisco. Needless to say, moving with a cast sucks.
That about sums it up. I'm looking forward to doing a lot of photography
when I get my cast off, and exploring the city on my bike, but it looks
like I still have more time to log in with this cast. On Sunday I went
though a minor freak out and took a pair of dykes from my tool box and
cut my cast off. It turns out that this wasn't the smartest idea I've
had, and several friends recommended going to the hospital and having
a doc check it out.
It turns out they were right. I went to the hospital and spoke with a
nurse. When they heard I had been walking around the apartment on the
cast, they almost freaked out, and I was zipped into get new x-rays. Upon
seeing the results, I was sentenced to three more weeks in a new cast.
I hadn't moved any bones around, but the moving process may have taken
a toll, and I have a bit more healing to do. Damn. The new cast off date:
December 3rd.
Posted 10/ 22/05
Some thoughts on the healing process
All this down time from riding is frustrating, but what can you do? It
has given me a lot of time to reflect on the healing process. I also finished
several of the games I've been playing on my PS 2. I've over the halfway
point in my cast, which is a relief. I'm looking forward to being get
around again.
The first week of being broken definitely was the worst. I was on at
least one vicodin at a time, and spent the entire time on the couch in
a daze. Week two gets a bit better, although returning to work was not
fun. Unless the foot was elevated, it throbbed. Fortunately, on week three,
it's not so bad. At that point, I was off the major meds, and able to
hobble around alright. I just want to be able to pedal around again.
Posted 10/15/05
I was going through some files, and found shots I took of local DH home
boy Ian launching the jump I broke my foot on. The photos give a pretty
good idea of how fast I was going when I over shot the gap.
Ian 1
Ian 2
Five more weeks of this cast, and then I graduate to the walking cast.
I can't wait to get this thing off my leg.
Posted 10/7/05
One year ago
My last trip to the hospital was a year ago this month. I'm no longer
allowed to ride bikes during the month of October.
This is last year's post: October 2004.
Check out the irony. The gap in the picture is the one I overshot. Somehow
I launched extremely high off that lip. It doesn't even look hard does
it? I had a bad feeling about it.. maybe that's why I never hit it until
now. The stupid thing is that it was all just in my head. And I'll be
dwelling on it for the next 6 weeks at least.
Posted 10/6/05
Still broken.
I can't believe how sick I am of sitting on the couch. It's been four
days and I'm still feeling like crap. I got out of the house briefly with
my homie Josh and managed some errands.(making sure the rent check doesn't
bounce) The foot still throbs like crazy after being upright for more
than a few minutes. Hopefully I'll be able to work soon, because I'm going
to be broke after all is said and done. Now I'm wishing I got Aflack.
Hindsight's a bitch, huh?
After Friday's bad
luck I thought my stupid crash quota for the month was out of the
way. When I got home Sunday from weekend in Tahoe with my girlfriend,
I ran out to do a little bit of riding with Theo and Ian in the Oakland
hills.
After arriving, I hit the jump at the parking lot. On my first shot
my left Welgo pedal completely self destructed. The pedal cage just completely
fell off the spindle. This was a bad sign. Bad sign number two. A friendly
rider we ran into had just broken his pedal as well, and let me use his
remaining good one. I was fairly stoked and hit the smaller jump again,
and tried to dial in my x-ups on my Enduro.
And then I decided to launch the longer gap. For some reason I have been
apprehensive of this hit. I wanted to make sure I would clear it, so I
started way up by the road and hauled ass at the hit. I had more than
enough speed, and didn't set up quite right off the take off. My right
foot came off my pedal at mach speed as I dead sailored through the air,
and I watched as I over shot the landing.
That night my foot ended up looking like this.
Posted 10/5/05
I'm broken
I had some bad luck this weekend. How bad was it? Bad. I done broke myself.
Now I'm in a cast with my foot elevated, in order to keep a solid amount
of pain at bay. Even with 2 vicodin in me I'm not feeling so wonderful.
A large black cast is keeping my right foot trapped and immobilized. And
this is my third day.
What happened? I got a bit off balance off the lip of a jump. In the
air, I stuck my right foot out. Upon landing, several bones in my foot
exploded on impact. Not so good.
Several doctors have looked at my x-rays, then scans. I decided against
the surgery option offered by my doctors. They wanted to cut up my foot,
stick a few pins in it, and move a few bones around that are in weird
spots. It may have healed slightly better, but either way, I'm going to
have arthritis in a few years. Lovely.
I'll have the cast on for the next 6 weeks. bummer, huh? I'm feeling
better today though. I'm only on one vicodin right now. I'm still out
of it though; I keep forgetting what day it is.
Posted 10/2/05
New Look for the site...
Do you like the new look? Meh? send me an email
and tell me what you think. I'm trying this one out for now. I've got
a few other designs simmering on the burner until I learn more about using
CSS for web page layout.
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