Ben Fullerton
Professional Adventure Photographer, DP, Pentax Shooter and Tall Guy. Life's an adventure, shoot it!
Occupation: I'm a professional Adventure Photographer. Staf Photographer for BACKPACKER, Mag, Climbing Mag, Urban Climber and the other publications of the Active Interest Media Outdoor Group.
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2013-06-20 02:49:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
Nothing recharges the creativity after a long day of shooting like a bike ride in the golden evening light!
2013-06-14 20:45:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
Living the life, shooting some slackliners in a few high lines today in Eldorado Canyon State Park. #photography #pentax
2013-06-11 19:09:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
My hero of the day is +David Drummond
Letter from +Google to the offices of
- the Attorney General
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dear Attorney General Holder and Director Mueller
Google has worked tremendously hard over the past fifteen years to earn our users’ trust. For example, we offer encryption across our services; we have hired some of the best security engineers in the world; and we have consistently pushed back on overly broad government requests for our users’ data.
We have always made clear that we comply with valid legal requests. And last week, the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged that service providers have received Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests.
Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users’ data are simp... more »
2013-06-11 18:04:30 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)
Meet the Analog Memory desk. NEED.
http://www.brit.co/the-britlist-06-07-13/
2013-06-11 17:48:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" - Plato.
2013-06-11 16:45:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Are Hangouts screwed up right now or what?
Trying to hangout with colleagues today, trying to telecommute like google said this would be great for.
I was muted to one person, but no one else. Someone was muted to only another person. No one seems to have the option to unmute anyone, neither the person who is muted or the who supposedly muted them (but never did). Clicking the mute button, only mutes the person further, but doesn't then give you the option to unmute. And then someone, trying to figure it out, blocked me; and now can't find any conceivable way to unblock me.
What is going with this? Hangouts used to work flawlessly, now seem buggy as hell? Did Google break them?
According to a a search, lots of people are having problem with this...
2013-06-09 19:06:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)
Final Attempt
Yesterday was one of my favorite events of the year: the Bouldering World Cup in Vail, as a part of what was formerly known as the Teva Mountain Games, hence forth to be known as the GoPro Mountain Games.
One of the reasons I love this event, on top of all the good food, good people, great athletes and typically amazing weather, is the outpouring of emotion you inevitably get when you have some of the worlds top athletes, giving it their all, hoping to be the one who comes out on top.
Here's Canadian climbing Sean McColl, falling off his final attempt on the desperately technical, slabby and stemmy Men's Problem #2 in the Final round of the World Cup.
This problem shut a lot of people down. Great effort by Sean and all the other athletes!
More images to come. Gotta go do some climbing of my own. Stay tuned!
2013-06-05 18:02:04 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)
Skiing Mt. Sherman
Ski season is still alive and well in the high alpine zones. We had a monster spring this year in terms of snowfall, and there still a ton a great skiing to be found for those who want to get up early, get up high and get on it!
Here's a Memorial Day image of my good friend Scott Turpin making a pretty telemark turn on the southeast face of Mt. Sherman, right below the 14,035 ft summit.
Shred on!
2013-05-26 19:17:57 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)
This story warms my heart.
I think in almost every way of life, be it religious, political or whatever, there are those who propel hatred and bigotry, and those who long for peace and unity. It's great to be seeing a side of Islam that doesn't often get the light of day, at least not in the news cycle.
I think in light of Memorial day, the greatest thing we can do to honor the sacrifices that have been made by our Service Men and Women, is to lives our lives in such a way, as individuals, as a country and as a world, that whatever peace and freedom they fought for is a long lasting one.
Choose understanding, not ignorance.
Choose love, not hatred.
Choose peace, not war.
"If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people." Romans 12:8
Thanks you to all who have served and sacrif... more »
2013-05-25 01:02:11 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
Did a Boulder Triathlon today: Yoga, Rock Climbing and Kickball.
2013-05-23 17:15:11 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)
Photoshop: How to Cast Realistic Shadows
Photoshop CS6 Extended tutorial showing how to cast realistic shadows from any object including those with irregular bases. (Works on earlier versions of PS as well.)
2013-05-21 22:08:25 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)
Marketing whiz Seth Godin was the presenter for a recent iteration held in New York, hosted by The New School as part of Parsons Festival 2013. Speaking on the monthly theme of "Backwards," Godin delivered a dense performance that no doubt left the heads of the young art and design students spinning.
+Seth Godin #sethgodin #creativity
2013-05-21 21:22:30 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)
Photography Quote of the Day - The Heart of Marketing
"At the end of the day, it's about a relationship. If people don't know you're alive, and you're not in a relationship with people, you're not getting any work. And it's up to you to go out there and put you're work in front of people." -+Zack Arias
Zack nails it right here, at least as far as professional photography is concerned. You can be as good as you want. If people don't know who you are, you might be a great artist, but not a great professional. This quote came from 90 minutes into this great conversation between Zack and +Chase Jarvis.
It's definitely worth your time to watch the whole thing. Knowledge gettin' dropped left and right.
2013-05-21 20:35:28 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)
This is via James Vaughan on Flickr.
Quote is from her yesterday at the NYC Media thing and now shared quite widely.
Original image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/8771766514/
#Flickr #FlickrRIP #marissamayer
2013-05-20 18:54:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
chasejarvisTECH: How To Build a Pro Cine-Boom on a Shoestring [literally]
http://bit.ly/10J3xnp
In my last chasejarvisTECH piece you got a peek at the gear I packed away for the 19,000 foot climb up Kilimanjaro for the Summit on the Summit. There were more than a few comments on how much “stuff” went with me. It’s all relative I suppose, but when you get down to it that was a fairly bare-bone operation for a job that still yielded high-end results.
As you see in this next installment, we had to make do without some of the other gear that we would have loved to have had along the way but left out for obvious reasons. I’m talking about cranes, jibs, dollies and the like. So sometimes you have to get creative.
My man Chris did just that, by lashing some cordelette climbing rope to a tripod to create a makeshift cinema boom. As the footage at the end proves,... more »
2013-05-20 18:28:48 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)
Look at this GIF long enough and you can make the train change direction simply by thinking about it
2013-05-20 15:22:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
It's The Final Countdown! Watch the official trailer for the return of Arrested Development. All new episodes, May 26, only on Netflix. http://youtu.be/vzVhPCMAxWQ
2013-05-20 06:08:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
"I wolfed my teamster sub for you." -Liz Lemmon #30rock
2013-05-20 05:22:51 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Having the first solid late night Photoshop session in quite a while. After a long affair with Lightroom, I'm really starting to enjoy this program again.
2013-05-19 14:41:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)
Here's a quick Instagram shot of my wife Genny leading a balancy 5.10- in Red Rocks Canyon Open Space outside of Colorado Springs; while Annika chills at the bottom and builds her a castle out of Wheat Thins for when she gets back down. #climbing #familyadventure
2013-05-16 20:54:16 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)
Rock Climbing Basics - Some semi-recent work
Hey Folks, thought I would share some of a project that went down last year. This all went live a while ago, but I was drowning in some other projects and hardly even noticed. So I'm sharing it now!
This is a How To video series that I worked on with Climbing Magazine. It was a really fun project to work on, because not only did it represent a big area of growths for myself as a shooter, which is getting much more serious about video production; but it also represented a similar area of exploration and growth in the publishing industry as a whole. In this modern world of social media, web content and digital iPad editions, everyone is figuring out how they can use these new platforms to bring multimedia and video content to their readers. It was really interesting and enjoyable being a part of this endeavor!
Check... more »
2013-05-16 15:54:17 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)
Learn yourself some shortcuts – Never stop learning!
Along with my much needed upgrade to CS6, I'm also spending some time in the next few weeks digging into some tutorials, blogs, Lynda.com and other educational resources to see what new techniques and approaches I can add to my workflow. There's always room for more knowledge and improvement, and every step you take boosts your images a little bit higher.
I thought I would start things off with one of my favorite "tutorials" of all time. Here's more tips than you can shake a stick at, delivered hilariously by the one and only Deke McClelland.
Enjoy!
2013-05-16 05:37:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
Google+ is so incredibly meta right now. An whole social network being used almost entirely by people talking about said social network.
2013-05-15 19:46:02 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
I've finally joined the rest of the modern creative world and upgraded to Adobe CS6, all the way from CS4. Apparently there are quite a few changes.
You may all now laugh at me.
2013-05-15 18:07:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Wow! +Vic Gundotra just knocked it out of the park with his keynote! Just when you thought photos on Google+ couldn't get any better he blew us all away! I'm super excited about the new photography features. In many ways I think this is a huge paradigm shift and game changer for the masses. Everyone's photography will take a big step up, not just those of us with photo processing skills. A rising tide lifts all boats and I LOVE that. Did you see Vic's keynote? What did you think? Here's my blog post on it here.
2013-05-15 18:04:45 (5 comments, 14 reshares, 62 +1s)
Wet Rock
If you ever want to experience the High Wire crag in Clear Creek Canyon without the crowds, you have to go in the morning, on a tuesday. When it's raining.
Even so, there were still two other parties in the area. Here's Scott Turpin getting after some wet schist on Via Comatose Amigo (5.10b).
#climbing #colorado #adventure
2013-05-07 15:23:15 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)
Photo Credit!
Later on, I'm going to go to the grocery store and inform them that I would love to use their groceries without paying, but would be thrilled to give them a grocery store credit on the bottom of our plates, so that people who look really hard will know where the food came from.
2013-05-06 00:07:39 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)
This place speaks my language!
Just got into to Bozeman, MT after an amazing 6 days backcountry try skiing, shooting and filming with Backpacker Magazine. Chilling out for the night, and then me, my sore legs and 300 GB's of media are headed back to Boulder.
2013-04-24 01:09:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)
Rocky Mountain Pow
Had a great day skiing up in Rocky Mountain National Park with my friend Andrew Commander, who is a really great telemark skier. The backcountry being the powder keg that it is right now, we mostly just skinned up to Loch Vale and skied the drainage back down. But we still managed to find a few safe pillows to drop.
2013-04-21 20:31:18 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Hey Video/Filmmaking folks.
I need some input. Steadicam Merlin vs Glidecam HD-1000/2000.
Ready. Set. Go!
2013-04-12 01:16:47 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 11 +1s)
Wakeboarding + Light Painting = Awesome
Check this out for a really cool shoot with some stunning results!
2013-04-05 23:41:41 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
Movi - The Movie
And along with my last post of +Vincent Laforet's BTS vid from his short film shot with a super cool new piece of technology. Here is the actual short film itself. Great way to kick off the weekend.
Enjoy!
2013-04-05 22:49:47 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)
Along comes another game changer...
The word s "Game Changer" seems to pop up in the filmmaking world pretty often these day; and not because it's being overused, but because that's the rate at which things are advancing.
This tool looks amazing. And +Vincent Laforet does an excellent job at showing us just a taste of what it can do. The final cab shot is truly mind blowing.
Exciting time to be a film maker!
2013-04-04 00:05:24 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)
Super excited and honored to find out that Backpacker Magazine's 2012 Survival Issue has been nominated for a National Magazine Award in the category of Single Topic Issue by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
This was probably my favorite issue of the year to work on, and it's fun to see it get recognition from ASME. It's humbling to even be nominated, winning would be unreal.
We're up against some pretty big guns, so wish us luck!
2013-04-03 15:30:41 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)
Ice Climbing at Lincoln Falls
Had a great time getting out for some midweek ice with Genny last week. My friend Scott came along, as to continue flooding my catalog with himself crushing. Here he is on the upper headwall of the Scottish Gully at Lincoln Falls.
Always nice when you can get out with friends, climb a few pitches, and pull a photoshoot out of it.
2013-03-27 00:04:47 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
+Dan Bailey is an adventure sports photographer from Alaska who has recently published a new eBook on the subject. I thought it would be fun to sit down and hing out with him to chat about the book and share some collective thoughts on the subject of adventure/action photography.
2013-03-26 21:58:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
Great day up on Berthoud with Scott yesterday!
The snow was a little weird, but the weather was gorgeous (and cold). No hero turns that day, but any day out is a good day out!
2013-03-22 20:20:59 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)
0_o This is genius! #aprilfools is right around the corner people...
Get on it!
2013-03-20 19:50:04 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)
PLEASE READ
Op-Ed: Letter to Cheney and Bush from dying Iraq vet on 10th anniversary
http://www.digitaljournal.com/
On the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, a veteran of that war wrote a letter to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. It is a letter that all Americans should read.
Tomas Young wrote the letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in the Iraq War, and on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who were wounded, both physically and psychologically, by the Iraq War. On behalf of those whose lives were either taken, or destroyed beyond repair.
Young is living under hospice care and has little time left to live but he wanted Bush and Cheney, as well as all other Americans, to read his words.
Young signed up for his tour of duty just two days after the 9/11 attacks. He joined the army because his ... more »
2013-03-20 17:31:28 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)
Dear +GoPro , thank you for your DMCA take down notice. May we ask 1) when did DMCA start to cover trademarks too? and 2) do we need your permission to use the word "GoPro" and "Hero" for our future reviews?
2013-03-20 16:44:44 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
My 12 favorite images of 2012 and a late announcement!
Here's the latest on the blog. A news update with insight into the radio silence over the last year. I've been busy with an exciting new chapter of the photo adventure!
Also, my 12 favorite images from the last year. Check it out!
2013-03-19 23:55:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
Climbing Magazine Gear Guide
Hey, cool to see an image of mine pop up from Eddie Bauer in my feed. This is a page from the hot off the presses Climbing Mag Gear Guide (go get one!). This is one of my favorite shots of the last year, (as you'll find out in tomorrow's blog post) of Editor-inChief Shannon Davis climbing LaCholla Jackson (5.9) at Shelf Road.
Also, the Accelerant Jacket is an amazing piece of gear, and my absolute most favorite layer. You should definitely get one.
2013-03-19 16:15:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
Mondays are for getting rad.
That's the new slogan that was hatched while skiing with Scott yesterday. Here he is getting rad last monday on Berthoud Pass. He's in school to be a kick-ass Chinese medicine practitioner and has mondays off. And for me, trying to be an adventure photographer and have a family is no easy balance. Time and time again, I've found that you end up having time for everything except the reason it all began, getting out there and being stoked. So from now on, Tuesday to Friday is for working, weekend are for family; but mondays?
Mondays are for getting rad.
2013-03-16 16:44:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Designer ski bum hair ties, now available for $45.
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