Articles about gear and equipment
26th
Oct
As many of you likely know, a couple months ago, I migrated my entire Lightroom Classic library to Lightroom CC for Desktop. For a little over two months, I maintained two separate workflows for my photography, one in the Lightroom CC ecosystem and one in Lightroom Classic, completely cut off from syncing with Lightroom CC. […]
27th
Sep
A year after my last update to my backpacking kit, and already things have changed significantly again. What’s perhaps most interesting, is in my last update, I’d transitioned to the Gregory Baltoro, in large part due to the heavy weight of my full frame DSLR gear. Although by the time I’d written that update, I’d […]
26th
Sep
Recently I posted about my quest for a new travel bag that would also work as a daily carry. Well, after much deliberation, I settled on the Boundary Supply Prima System. I just got that bag and have just started using it. I’ll review the bag eventually, but today is to show you how I’m […]
17th
Sep
I’m currently on a journey to find the right setup for my travels. I’m reaching analysis paralysis, so I thought I’d leverage my network and see if others have any opinions that might help sway me one way or another. So, without further ado, here is my dilemma. Current Setup At the moment, I do […]
6th
Jul
Photo credit: Lou Toni for the feature image above I’ve been using Fujifilm for just over a year now. About three months ago, after gathering dust, I finally sold my beloved Canon 6D an lenses. (I did keep my nifty fifty and Canon Elan 7NE. I couldn’t entirely give up Canon, and that is my […]
22nd
Jun
One of the early enhancements we made to our Cricket was a cell signal booster. We went on 26 trips in the first year of our Cricket. That’s every other weekend plus a few longer trips (4–16 days), and we continued going out throughout the cold winter months, so having a good cell signal allowed […]
8th
Jun
It’s been a few weeks now since we installed solar on our Mantis, and so far we are loving it. Instead of plugging our Mantis in when we get home, we just turn off all the power draws (including the fridge), and let the solar panels bring the power back up and keep the batteries […]
25th
May
Now that we’ve had a few weekends to take out our Mantis camper from TAXA Outdoors, we’re finally ready for the grand tour of our new home away from home. We purchased the first generation Mantis. In fact, ours is #12, so among the first to hit the streets, so-to-speak. We love how open it […]
18th
May
I tend more towards backpacking than car camping, yet the ability to bring a basecamp—a home—with me on trips has always been appealing to me. I am lucky enough to be married to a wife who has shared that appeal, and so a little over a year ago, after watching the progression of small camping […]
10th
May
If you’ve followed our journey on the TAXA Trailer Owner’s Facebook group, you’ll probably know we’ve struggled a bit with our tow vehicle. What you probably don’t know is how painful this decision process has been. We started the search in February, well before our Mantis was delivered, so we had plenty of time. We […]