Okay guys, good morning! So it's Friday, the blizzard is finally here
As you can probably hear. It's been snowing the whole morning. It's 10:00 a.m. right now
I've been awake for four hours, just waiting it out
I think that the worst of it is still to come so that's my plan
wait it out here. I have plenty of food plenty of water
I have plenty of clothes the gas tank is full. I have the
restrooms building is there
I'm good to go. I just need to wait here and
yeah, wait for tomorrow and
Hopefully I'll find a winter wonderland for
Myself because the interstate that is the way to get to this park is closed
So there is no way to get here or to get out.
hopefully tomorrow is gonna be awesome day here photography in the Badlands, and I might have the whole place for myself
1:30 p.m.
I hope you can hear that but the blizzard is now at full strength
charging my phone
I was hoping for some good conditions to shoot: lots of snow and not much wind
But I got the opposite: gusts of 60 miles per hour and not as much snow as expected
well, maybe it was the wind that carried it away.
The wind was coming from the north as you can tell from the back of my car
full of snow and ice while the rest of it was fine
That was a big problem for
Photography since I would have to face that way straight on if I wanted to make any images of the Badlands that day
Luckily for me, the storm gave me a short break of about 20 minutes when the wind was much calmer
So I went out and took advantage of the situation
That's the campground
There's no one there
So we just reached the point of the trip where I have to wear a hat because my hair is too greasy to show on
camera yeah, so I went out there I
Was so beautiful it's picked up some
Strength again, so you can't really see the Badlands now
So I think I chose a very good moment to get out
And I think I took a couple shots that I like, we will see. I brought this one, the a6000 with the long lens
It has a big hood too, so I thought that it would protect the lens and it did actually
Yeah, this is a long lens because I was not going to take any
intimate landscapes or anything today
So I left everything else
film camera and this camera behind
Recorded with my iPhone. By the way! when you use your iPhone to take photos or record videos
In the cold like today
It was 20 degrees the battery drains so fast
It always happens to me, and I always forget. I had 55 percent battery and after 10 minutes out there
I came back. I had 12 percent so yeah, just a note to myself to my future self because the next two days
I'm gonna be cold to that if I don't have too much battery on my phone, you shouldn't use it because it's gonna die
Thrilled by the photos I'd taken earlier, I tried to get to the Badlands again, but the weather had something else in mind
It's 7:10 p.m now, it's been a very very very long day
So anyway very boring video, thanks for bearing with me
Tomorrow, I promise I'll I'll go out there. I took like 10 naps today, so I'm gonna have a lot of energy to go out, I hope
Let's call it a day for today
I'm gonna go back there to bed and watch some videos and read and try to sleep and
Yeah, tomorrow will be another day
See you then