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Burning Man 2014 87 images Created 1 Sep 2014

Burning Man August 23-31, 2014. Black Rock City, Nevada.

The pictures in the album were primarily shot with a Sony A7R w/Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2 lens, with a few pictures from an iPhone 5s and GoPro HERO 3+ Black (aerial, on DJI Phantom 2).

At the last minute, while packing, I removed all other cameras and lenses from my bags. I had originally planned to bring the Sony as well as an Olympus OM-D E-M1 with a bunch of lenses, and an Edgertronic high-speed camera. But when I packed it all up, it was a huge amount of gear in addition to normal Burning Man survival gear. Also, I had to bring 3 x DJI Phantom 2 quadcopters and 2 x DJI Lightbridge sets in order to ensure success in aerial live-streaming, which took up a lot of room: 2 hard cases, a backpack, and a bike cargo trailer. I was feeling really overwhelmed with gear and decided to limit my photography possibilities in order to enjoy the event more (since I was a playa virgin).

In hindsight, I think I would have brought at least one more lens—a super-wide. I felt really limited during the week of amazing visual stimuli. Given the opportunity to do it again, I might have brought along a second body with a super-wide lens on it (maybe the Voigtlander 21/1.8). I felt really constrained with only a 35mm lens; a lot of the art is really big, and you can go into a lot of spaces and shoot inside, so a wide lens would have been great. A longer lens would also have been good to compress big structures on the playa. The art is big, but there is also a lot of space between it all; a long lens would make things look closer together. I'm not really a portraits guy, but a longer lens would also have helped for capturing shots of people.

Of course, changing a lens means dust on the sensor, and a lot of people are super paranoid about removing lenses while at Burning Man. I don't think it is a big deal. Change the lens and shoot. You can always get a sensor cleaned, later!
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  • The slowest will call on the planet! We were in the Burning Man staff line (the short line in the back), and it took over 2 hours to get to the window. Burning Man 2014.
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  • The slowest will call on the planet. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Flame-spewing, evil-horse art car. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Dust devil at Burning Man 2014
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  • Yellow ducky art car and a helicopter art car. Burning Man 2014
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  • The road to The Man at 6:00. Burning Man 2014
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  • Umbrella art installation. Burning Man 2014
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  • The Man, in a dust storm. Burning Man 2014
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  • Embrace is absolutely stunning. Burning Man 2014
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  • Embrace is absolutely stunning. Burning Man 2014
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  • Western house and tractor, in a dust storm. Burning Man 2014
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  • Embrace is absolutely stunning. Burning Man 2014
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  • An old burner on a bike photographs The Man at sunset. Burning Man 2014
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  • The Man at sunset. Burning Man 2014
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  • El Pulpo Mecanico, one of the most amazing art cars. Burning Man 2014
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  • Nightly lamplighter ceremony. Burning Man 2014
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  • Nightly lamplighter ceremony. Burning Man 2014
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  • Art installations at night. Burning Man 2014
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  • Art car. Burning Man 2014
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  • Trey chats with a burner. Burning Man 2014
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  • Some love at Pink Heart. Burning Man 2014
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  • Vines Without Borders, ready for the rest of the group to arrive (after a monsoon hail storm and hard rain). Burning Man 2014
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  • Embrace. Burning Man 2014
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  • Embrace. Burning Man 2014
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  • Vines Without Borders. Burning Man 2014
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  • The builder of the Nexicon Portal poses with his creation. Burning Man 2014
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  • Fire dancers with flaming monkey thing. Burning Man 2014
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  • A view of my FPV screen during a flight. DJI Phantom 2, GoPro HERO 3+ Black, DJI Lightbridge, Burning Man 2014.
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  • Mobile Pac-man ghost on the playa. Burning Man 2014
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  • VIew down 6:00 from The Man. Burning Man 2014
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  • The Man 2014. Burning Man 2014
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  • Vines Without Borders at 4:45 & Darjeeling. Burning Man 2014
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  • Aerial view of The Man with dust devils whirling on the playa. DJI Phantom 2, GoPro HERO 3+ Black. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Aerial view of Center Camp. DJI Phantom 2, GoPro HERO 3+ Black. Burning Man 2014.
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  • The Man, Burning Man 2014.
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  • The Man, at sunset. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Unicorn art car. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Pirate ship art car. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Niels Joubert flies a Phantom 2 Vision+ at Burning Man 2014.
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  • The Temple of Grace, Burning Man 2014.
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  • The Temple of Grace, Burning Man 2014.
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  • The Temple of Grace, Burning Man 2014.
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  • The Temple of Grace, Burning Man 2014.
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  • An art installation you can climb. Burning Man 2014.
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  • An art installation you can climb. Burning Man 2014.
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  • The Man and souks. Burning Man 2014.
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  • The Man, Burning Man 2014.
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  • Robot thingy. Fire comes from its hands. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Nexicon Portal, one of my favorite art installations. Burning Man 2014.
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  • LOVE. Burning Man 2014.
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  • LOVE. Burning Man 2014.
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  • LOVE. Burning Man 2014.
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  • LOVE. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Frickin' laser beams. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Lovely flower + rest pad art installation. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Beautiful fire art on the ceiling of this installation. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Western house art car, with Temple of Grace in background. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Temple of Grace. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Even the porta-potty location featured art. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Art car in dust. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Embrace, at night. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Embrace, at night. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Embrace, at night. Burning Man 2014.
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  • 3-masted ship art car. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Burners and their bikes. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Kalliope rocks all night long (from behind). Burning Man 2014.
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  • Art installation at night. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Our RV, at 2:15am. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Vines Without Borders camp, viewed from the death trap of a structure across the street from us. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Vines Without Boders camp with huge "atomic bomb" mushroom cloud burn in the background. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Cliff Baise at Vines Without Borders camp. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Hanging out while serving wine at Vines Without Borders. James, Nina, Cliff Baise, Trey Ratcliff. Burning Man 2014.
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  • The aerial live stream of the Embrace burn from the webcast1 streaming container. Burning Man 2014. Photo: George Krieger
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  • Eric Cheng flies a DJI Phantom 2 out on the playa (photo: Gerard Mattimoe) Burning Man 2014.
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  • Eric Cheng flies a DJI Phantom 2 out on the playa (photo: Gerard Mattimoe) Burning Man 2014.
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  • Eric Cheng flies a DJI Phantom 2 out on the playa (photo: Gerard Mattimoe) Burning Man 2014.
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  • The aerial streaming crew (George Krieger, Eric Cheng, Gerard Mattimoe) with The Man creator Andrew Johnstone and his new wife, Jeri Schneider Johnstone, in the streaming container. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Casual pole dancing at Vines Without Borders. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Vines Without Borders group photo, Burning Man 2014
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  • Trey Ratcliff, after a long day of shooting in the dust storms. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Man burn night, viking party at Kalliope.
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  • Pre-burn ceremony, featuring stilt walkers carrying torches (in the dust storm). Burning Man 2014.
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  • Kalliope rocks out at the man burn. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Burners head to the man burn in a dust storm. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Burning Man is Disneyland for adults. Pre man burn. Burning Man 2014.
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  • A picture of my FPV display during aerial capture of the man burn at Burning Man 2014. DJI Phantom 2, GoPro HERO 3+ Black, DJI Lightbridge. Burning Man 2014.
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  • Aerial shot of The Man burn at Burning Man 2014. Screengrab from livestream video shot with DJI Phantom 2 and GoPro 3+ Black, beamed back to webcast1 via DJI Lightbridge. Burning Man 2014.
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