To Munich
Well we made it to the first of our exotic destinations–Charlotte! They really play up their Wright Brothers claim here. Next stop is Munic on our way to Marco Polo.
Bon Voyage, mommy!
Mell is REALLY gong to miss the dogs. Our friend Krissy is house sitting while we’re away.
4:00 AM
Well, packing is now done except for the few batteries that we are leaving on charge right up until we leave. For those equipment junkies out there that may be interested in the gear we are bringing, here it is:
Cameras:
- Canon 5d
- Canon 5d
- Canon 40d
- Canon 70-200 IS f2.8L
- Canon 24-105 IS f4.0L
- Canon 16-35 IS f2.8L
- Canon 50mm f1.4
- Canon 580EX II Speedlight
- Canon 580EX II Speedlight
- Canon 550 Speedlight
- 2 Belt-attachable Camera Holsters
- My trusty batman utility belt (hefty belt that holds my various cases and pouches to and hold the sundries I need to carry.
- Full compliment of camera batteries and chargers
- A few sets of our usual rechargeable AA batteries for the flashes, but I’ll primarily be relying on Lithium Ion AA batteries for the travel photography and especially the wedding photography to avoid the need to recharge on the go.
- Monopod
Believe it or not, just about all of that of that fits on one modest 21″ carry-on roller bag. Mell is carrying the laptop in her backpack with our carry-on sundries, and we are checking one slightly larger bag with most of our other necessities. The Monopod is in the checked bag. I bought a fancy lowpro Camera backpack with compartments for everything you’d ever want, but I found that my various belt cases are perfect padding for the equipment in the small roller bag. Sorry lowpro, you’re stayin’ home.
Last minute shopping
We needed to pick up a few last things for our trip like a plug converter for Europe. The long lines begin now as it’s back to school season here at walmart 🙂
Almost Time!
It’s August 17th, which means it’s almost time to go! So of course instead of finishing packing, I’m playing on the new laptop making a travel blog for the website 🙂
Yep, Mell and I are heading to Europe to photograph a wedding just outside of Paris! While we are in Europe we will visit Graphistudio in Arba Italy (about an hour outside of Venice, where we will stay for a few days). Graphistudio is our wedding album publishing team, so we finally get to meet them.
After Venice and Arba, we are visiting a friend in Kaiserslautern, Germany for the weekend, and then to Paris for a couple days before we shoot the wedding in Jossigny, France (not far from Eurodisney, incidentally).
We will update as we can with text and pictures. Some of them will be with my iphone, and so the picture quality will be a bit… soft.
Check back often!
Nathan