Archives for the Month of June 2006 on Candice's Blog
Online Digital Video Editing
I was reading the New York Times (online) today and ran across an article about free online digital video editing. Although, I prefer taking still pictures, I thought this looked like fun. Maybe I'll document my trip to Cedar Point this weekend in video...
Here is the link to the article and here is the link to one of the online video editing websites.
Diet Coke and Mentos
So, over the weekend we were in Wilmington, Delaware for the wedding of Jeremy's roommate from Notre Dame. The groom, being a creative and inquisitive guy, had read about a Diet Coke and mentos reaction. The guys tried it with a 2 liter bottle of Caffeine Free Diet Coke and an entire roll of mentos. They used a rolled piece of paper to channel the entire package of mentos quickly into the 2 liter bottle (they placed a credit card underneath the roll of paper while filling the roll with mentos and then pulled it out to release the mentos). Well...here's how it turned out...
Pretty cool.
Yellowstone National Park in May
So, I have something better to share on my blog today. A few weeks ago, I took a trip to Seattle for a conference and afterwards drove out to Yellowstone National Park. I'd never been there, but ever since my mom and little sisters visited I'd really wanted to go.
Needless to say...I LOVED Yellowstone. I highly recommend visiting in the spring. Although they say the weather is completely unpredictable, it was beautiful for us. It was sunny and 70 during the day, and was much cooler at night. There were no crowds (except at Old Faithful just before an eruption) and there were baby animals.
I've included a few pictures that I took on the trip. Since the last blog, I've upgraded my Fuji 2600 point and shoot to a Nikon D50 (a digital SLR). I also love my new camera and have been taking it everywhere despite its size. It makes me look like a real photographer even though I am really still learning.
In regards to photographers and Yellowstone. It's hard to take a bad picture (especially with the weather we had), but it's really hard to get an absolutely fabulous picture. There were tons of amateur and professional photographers in Yellowstone. They were all very friendly and willing to give a few pointers. Several offered to let me borrow a better telephoto lens (since I only have a 28-80mm lens) and I got a few great pictures that way.
So, here are the photo highlights...
This first picture is in the northern part of the park at Mammoth Springs (where we stayed the first two nights in the lodge, which was beautiful and very clean).
The next picture is of one of MANY bison we saw in the park. This was taken with a 70-300mm lens borrowed from a very nice woman photographer. I can't thank her enough for a great picture...at least I like it.
One of my favorite things during the entire trip was seeing black bear cubs play in the forest. Here is one of MANY photos I took while watching them play from a safe distance (only one of two cubs are shown in the picture).
No Yellowstone trip would be complete without seeing Old Faithful. Here is one of my photos taken during our last evening in the park shortly before sunset.
In addition to Yellowstone National Park, we drove down to Grand Teton National Park (one of my family's favorite places). It became one of mine as well. In the guide book from the library...Grand Teton (which is one of the peaks in the range) got its name from a French trappers who called the peaks le trois tetons which means the three breasts. Yes, I had to read the page again to just to be sure that I had read it correctly.
Lastly, Yellowstone Lake was one of my favorite sites in the entire park. We went there on the last day, but in future visits, I would like to spend more time around the lake. It was still somewhat frozen when we were there, but we saw otters there and Fishing Cone (shown below). Fishing Cone is a hot spring that was said to be used by fishermen who fished in the lake, caught their fish, and immediately cooked them in Fishing Cone. That isn't allowed anymore, but it's certainly a breathtaking view.
