Sunday, January 3, 2010

Road Trip

Wow, epic road trip!  Anne and I logged about 40 hours in the car in the last two weeks... we crossed 9 States...  which is a lot, but we saw many of our friends and family and definitely had a blast!  I guess I barely leave Avon for 11.5 months of the year, so I've gotta log some miles at some point...

I want to tell my brother Jim and his wife Pauline "Congratulations!" for their first child, Ethan James, born December 25th, 2009!  I predict that he'll be throwing forward loops by 2015 : )

There are too many intricate (and most likely boring) details of the trip to write about, so here are a few random pics and a short video that tell just a bit of the story:






And, of course, there has to be an action video:

Sledding in VT from Andy McKinney on Vimeo.

6 comments:

Nicolas said...

Wishing you a Happy Bloggin' New year Andy. Keep up the nice reporting, and hope 2010 is as sweet as 2009 was.

James Douglass said...

Looks like a great trip! Congrats on the nephew.

That's an awesome picture with the stars in the background. How did you get the exposure right?

George Markopoulos said...

Happy New Year Andy-looks like an awesome trip. Check out live2sail for the detail from Saturday’s epic day. Biggest jumps ever on the Delaware Bay.

Cya soon.

George Markopoulos said...

Happy New Year Andy-looks like an awesome trip. Check out live2sail for the detail from Saturday’s epic day. Biggest jumps ever on the Delaware Bay.

Cya soon.

Andy said...

Happy New Year guys, thanks for the comments.

James- The photo you're asking about is the portrait of me, Dale, and Anne, right? If so, those aren't stars, they're fireworks. The camera has a "night scene + portrait" setting that basically fires off the flash at the beginning of a very long exposure. The flash lights up the foreground stuff- in this case, my friends and I and some snowflakes. The long exposure allows background lighting like city lights, the moon, or in this case some fireworks, to be included in the shot. Hope that helps!

Anonymous said...

brrrrrr.