Vince M. Camiolo's Blog

Although my blog has sat idle for the better part of a month, I’d like to think I had a valid reason; between my responsibilities with Corey Rich Photography, shooting the Tahoe Adventure Film Festival documentary and kicking off the mountain biking season with a trip to Morro Bay, Calif., I’ve been busy.

While that may be precisely the reason for some to keep up with a blog, until I work blog posts into my daily/semi-daily workflow (an immediate goal), the blog gets pushed to the back burner.

Here’s a short recap of the past few weeks:

Alex Honnold working on a boulder problem at "The Sads."

The last weekend in January, Shawn Corrigan and I headed south on US395 along the eastern edge of the Sierras to the climbing mecca of Bishop, Calif. There we met up with professional climber, Alex Honnold, most notable for his impressive free solos, and recipient of the 2009 Golden Camalot Award (Tahoe Adventure Film Festival). We made the trip to film an interview with Alex for our Tahoe Adventure Film Festival documentary.

A missed connection on Saturday gave us the chance to do a little climbing of our own.

Shawn works on a boulder problem at The Happy Boulders.

We found Alex and his friend Kenny in the parking lot, grabbed some dinner with them and shot the interview early Sunday morning. We had a couple hours to spare following the interview, so we tagged along with Alex and Kenny to shoot some still images. Click here for a lightbox of our images of Alex.

We have the three primary interviews down for the TAFF documentary. Now it’s time to really dive into the edit. Here is a screen shot from each interview (Todd Offenbacher, Corey Rich and Alex Honnold):

TAFF doc screen shots.

Last weekend long-time friend Dennis Lui and I partook in our annual mid-winter mountain bike trip. Primarily to snap me out of my season of relative sedentary-ness (Dennis lives in San Diego, so his riding season never ends), this also served as the kick-off to my preparation to the Sea Otter Classic, a short two months away, not to mention my escape from the winter wonderland of Lake Tahoe. We selected the Central Coast town of Morro Bay, an area we had ridden in two years before. We knew what to expect, and we expected great riding; pastoral-set singletrack with expansive ocean views; demanding climbs with rewarding downhills.  And one of the more luxurious state park campgrounds I’ve stayed at.

Dennis Lui in Morro Bay State Park.

Here’s to more regular posts from here on out!