Intents

I hate putting up a tent. I don’t know why. It’s not that difficult. We’re going on an epic camping trip soon so I got the old tent out to see if was still in good shape and I immediately got a little short with Gina and Abby due to my dislike of tent erection.

We’re headed to Big Bend, which is in a really isolated part of Texas. In anticipation of being in a good area for photographing star trails I bought a cheapo intervalometer for my camera. When I started playing around with it I got the idea to do a time-lapse deal of me putting up our tent out in the middle of the desert. But I needed to practice on something and decided that the dry-run tent set-up would be the perfect time to practice for the real thing. So I set the intervalometer to take a picture every 8 seconds and made two videos, one of the tent set-up and one of the tent take down. The camera shot about 100 frames each time and I combined them in iMovie to make the video. They turned out well and included Abby and Gina in incidental roles, so I felt obliged to include them on this album. They go like this here: