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The idea is simple: have your kids test out different reading locations and have each spot face off in a head-to-head March Madness-style bracket. Which is better: reading on my bed or under my bed? On a float in the pool or in a blanket fort? On the hammock or the outdoor swing. In the empty tub in a sleeping bag, or curled up in our swivel chair by the fireplace. We thought it would be a fun way for our kids to mix up their reading routine, while officially crowning their favorite place to cozy up to a book.

I love skiing. Ultimately, that is why I do what I do. However, it is easy to become jaded and to forget. I watch skiing pretty much constantly, year-round. Skiing has become work and I've had a bunch of injury issues. When I'm sitting at home with free time, I'll watch snowboarding, skateboarding, or climbing, and not just because watching skiing has become my job, disgustingly privileged though that is. I find that more than other sports Instagram has had a traumatic effect on the quality and interest level of ski media. A lot is derivative and stale, and frankly, lacking effort and passion. There simply isn't that much content that excites me these days... and that is doubly true in summer.

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However, and this is my actual point, I just sat and watched Bracket Creep three times. It might have a Monster Energy logo in the intro, but that aside, it has everything that lacks in so much ski content. It has style, artistry, and above all, it's different. Of course, it's demonstrably inspired by skateboard films, both in filming and editing, but the skiing itself is both high-level and unique without any need to resort to quirkiness.

I could probably end this right there and say go and watch the film, which you should. But I should mention the all-star cast. Jackson and Beau-James are right at the forefront themselves, but Edjoy & Joona Kangas deserve a solid nod with tasteful, unique tweaks on all they do. There's even a banger from Henrik in there, though Wacko is the undisputed 'star' of this film. And he's quietly become perhaps the most engaging skier of the newer gen of 'proper' pros... though the aforementioned names are up there too. I'm not going to bother with the trick-for-trick breakdown here, but if you want a seminal moment or two, the near-edge catch at 06:20 and the rail gap ender (before the encore seg) are up there. Most importantly, there are plenty of subtleties that you only catch on a second or third viewing, which is what makes this such a special cut.

But it also shows that the fantasy skiing portrayed by helicopters after endless travel days and long-haul flights and month-long waits for weather windows is less interesting to watch too. Skiing needs these kinds of films to inspire those who don't have the aspirations or the means to climb mountains and travel to far-flung destinations for the most pristine powder day. Or the will to send the biggest jump or get worked in the streets. And without a doubt, that is most skiers when they actually allow themselves a moment of retrospection.

I could easily go too deep with waxing lyrical about this one or go on more tangents than I already have. Put simply, I haven't been this excited by a ski clip in some time (perhaps Jake Carney's NS Original cut is up there). This is a banger, plain and simple. While this isn't their first film, to me, it deserves to be thought of like the Magma movies, Zootspace, and a select group of others in these post-social media days that will genuinely be treasured and remembered. It's a triumph and my proverbial hat (it's hot here) goes off to the boys behind this one. If you haven't watched it already, enjoy:

I always love cruising through the tiny hamlet of Lumberville. It could be a town from any place on the map, really. It could pass as a mountain town because of the steep bluffs terminating at many residents' back yards. The brightly colored clapboard houses mean it could pass as a New England town. Or it could continue to pass for the type of town it is, a river town with a high end restaurant and hotel, a bed and breakfast, and its little general store. It's certainly an enjoyable half mile to ride during any season. It is why I was curious to poke around the renovated shop.

The interior has been rearranged. The kitchen and the food case are now on one side of the store along with the coffee carafes. The coffee island is gone. Still present is the old building charm that was present many years ago. The floors creak, the ceiling is low, and the windows are as deep as ever. It has a welcoming vibe where a patron can spend five minutes or five hours. Impressively there is a shelf for cyclists stocked with emergency items such as tubes and CO2 canisters.

L-brackets are very helpful tools that are loved by many photographers of different genres, but for as long as we have been using them, imperfections in how they fit or work with certain cameras have been hard to ignore. These two new mounting tools from SmallRig just might change that.

Accessories for photography often fulfill both or either of two functions. Either they should help protect precious camera gear, improve how we use them, or both. In recent years, L-brackets, cages, rigs, and other camera mounting accessories have exponentially gained popularity and as more camera manufacturers update their lineup of imaging gear, manufacturers of support accessories have also been keeping up.

L-brackets are simply made to mount the camera onto a tripod just like how the typical tripod plate would. The only difference is that when using a normal tripod plate one would have to tilt the camera on the tripod head 90 degrees to the side to be able to shoot vertically. For the simplest applications, this is not even an actual problem when shooting quick stills, as long as the tripod and the head can securely hold the camera.

Simply put, an L-bracket make it easier and safer to mount your camera onto a tripod vertically. It eliminates the imbalance in weight and helps keep the camera in a more comfortable angle of view. In a way, the L-bracket also provides added protection on two out of the six sides of the camera body. This means that if in case the camera falls hitting the bottom part or the left side, the bracket would take some of the impact. There are L-brackets that were made to fit a wide selection of cameras with adjustable or sliding mounting screws, and there are also L-brackets that were designed specifically to fit specific camera models. The benefit of using the latter is that the photographer can just keep the L-bracket on the camera even when not in use and rarely have to remove them since the holes for the battery door and side ports are properly aligned.

For decades, L-brackets have proven very convenient to use for a multitude of shooting scenarios. Whether you are using a universal version that you would take out and install from time to time or one that is fitted to your camera, it always offered undeniable convenience.

In recent years, as vari-angle flip screens have gotten more and more popular, especially for cameras that are used for video and vlogging, the presence of the side plate of the L-bracket became an ergonomic obstacle. Most, if not all flip screens flip outward to the left side of the body, the rotation of tilt of the screen would also rotate on the same side, and the side plate of the bracket is obviously a hindrance for those kinds of movement. At the same time, the side plate would cover the ports for accessories on the side and would have to be unlocked from under to be able to have a bit of space by sliding the side plate further away from the side of the body. This would then mean that the camera now takes up more space and if the screen is directed towards the person in front of the camera, the side plate would become an obstruction. Most manufacturers of mounting solutions have played around with different ways to get past this challenge.

This new variant of the L-bracket from SmallRig definitely solves the problem, but with the added step of folding and unfolding the side plate. When folded, the side plate of the SmallRig folding L-bracket acts as the surface on which the quick-release clamp of the Arca Swiss type mount would latch. This plate has two buttons at the back. The one on the right would unlock the side plate from the folded configuration allowing the joint to rotate counterclockwise to have the side plate in place, and the button on the left unlocks that position to fold the side plate back onto the bottom part of the camera. The same mounting screw can also be loosened (even just partially) to slide the side plate outwards to add some space on the side for access to the ports similar to how older versions of the bracket do.

Another option that has recently been made available is this rotating camera mount plate kit that makes use of a lens collar with a foot that acts as the tripod plate. This collar is then connected to a bottom plate that was specifically made for the camera. At the moment this is only available for the Sony a7R V, a7R IV, a7 IV, and a7S III, but the brand did say that options for more camera models from most camera brands will be made available soon.

The tripod plate connected to the collar is both Arca Swiss type mount and Manfrotto RC2 compatible. The collar is made up of two layers that rotate internally, which means that no moving parts are in contact with the barrel of the lens. In fact, the collar is not at all in contact with the lens but simply acts as a path for the rotating internal part.

The rotation of the collar is limited to 90 degrees, which only allows shifting from horizontal to vertical one way but also conveniently assures getting the right angle if the initial position was in proper level. On the bottom left of the collar is an extension of the lens release button for assured access, and on the other side is a knob to control the friction or simply lock the rotation collar in place. At the bottom of both the tripod plate and the camera plate are additional screw threads with varying sizes in case one would have to use it on a different quick release mount type or if the user would like to mount additional accessories onto the camera. e24fc04721