Loaded and Ready

Our local state park is planning a day hike for tomorrow (New Years Day) and they want some photos of the occasion. A friend of mine is responsible for support services (medic access if necessary, hauling material, etc) and he mentioned that I could probably handle their photography needs. Anyway a long story short, I told him I would be happy to but there was no way I was hiking in with all my gear. He got permission from the state for me to take an ATV in so I present my mobile studio:

Fun. What sort of reaction did you get from the group?

It actually went very well. I was unable to use the lighting as planned for the group shoot due to 20 mph windows on the summit. I did however learn that I can easily shoot anywhere that I can get in with the four wheeler. I had all the gear I needed and no problem transporting it.

Here is a link to a shot I posted over in People taken on the way up: https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=17362826

And one from the summit:

Northwoods Bill wrote in post #17363784
I was unable to use the lighting as planned for the group shoot due to 20 mph windows on the summit.

You managed to focus through them ok it seems!

Being the stubborn person that I am I tried to set up the lighting for the main group shot. Apparently I had a little to much faith in the ability of the sandbags that I had. Thankfully one of the guys helping me to set up caught the light stand on its way over. I had two Apollo Mega's for modifiers and they were like sails. Lesson learned and thankfully nothing damaged

Definitely looks like a good day for a fire.

Yes, the fire was really appreciated!