My name is Tanner Boley and for the past five years I have been traveling around the world working on video projects with international Non-Governmental Organizations to highlight the work they do. My travels have taken me to almost every continent and I have had the privilege to document some amazing people and the incredible work they do around the world.
Most recently, I traveled to Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea. I worked with the Summer Institute of Linguistics as they handed off a translated copy of the New Testament to a native tribe in Papua New Guinea. The translation took over 42 years to complete.
Words and photos by Tanner Boley
Getting to Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea was no easy feat. It started with a flight from Bend, Oregon to Sydney, Australia. I boarded another flight in Sydney that took me to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
From there a smaller plane took me deeper into the interior of Papua New Guinea. After landing in Goroka, I jumped in a small truck and drove three hours deeper into the jungle. We pulled up to a grass runway where a small bush plane was waiting to fly me an hour deeper into the jungle.
After landing and dodging the dogs that were sleeping on the runway, I boarded a helicopter that flew me up to a high mountain pass where the village was gathering for the handoff ceremony.
My f-stop Lotus pack took a beating on this trip but kept all of my equipment safe and secure. I carried a small Sony PXW-X70 to record the ceremony and a Sony a6500 with an 18-105mm lens to photograph the handoff of the New Testament.
My pack endured a torrential downpour, 80-percent humidity, and a large earthquake that hit the interior of the Island. The whole time, my equipment was dry and secure, even after bouncing out of the back of a pickup truck on a jungle road. This year my f-stop Lotus UL will be traveling to Jordan, Turkey, Israel, Thailand, and Costa Rica with me.
"We Are f-stop" is for all f-stop users to share their stories from the field, from small daily adventures to epic travels. Contact us with your story on Facebook or drop us an email to [email protected] and let us know where your photography takes you and your f-stop pack!
SHOP ALL GEAR MORE WE ARE f-stop
©2022 F-stop
f-stop customer Mattia Bicchi got in touch with another adventure to whet your appetite to travel. Mattia is professional timelapse and hyperlapse photographer and filmmaker from Italy, now based in London. When he's not creating timelapse videos for clients, he's creating them on his own personal adventures. This time traveling through South America with his wife, capturing the stunning scenery along the way. Enjoy this instalment from Mattia making the journey to Angel Falls, and showing what amazing results can be achieved with a mirrorless set up and compact drone:
Words and photos by Mattia Bicchi
My wife and I are currently traveling through South America, making videos and TimeLapse. We recently went to Angel Falls in Venezuela, to get there we took a plane from Caracas to Puerto Ordaz where we stayed for a day to visit the beautiful ‘La Llovizna’ waterfall and where the Orinoco and Caroni rivers meet.
From Puerto Ordaz we got a small propeller plane to Canaima, a Pemon Village, where we were welcomed by our tour guide that took us to the Ucaima Camp, here we spent one night with an amazing view to the Carrao river and Tepuys.
The day after, at 6am with a small indigenous boat called Curiara we started sailing up to the Angel Falls, the journey was longer than usual, as the river was low and we had to get out the boat few times and push it against the current with the other guys. After 6 hours and a half we finally sighted the stunning falls from our boat, a scream of joy came from all of us, we never seen something so majestic!
We arrived at the base camp where we had lunch and got ready for the one hour walk through the jungle, with us we had a Black Loka and a Orange Lotus to carry our gear, the walk to the bottom of the falls was beautiful, we could feel hundreds of insects and birds singing around us, the tough part to walk through the jungle was the humidity, but once we arrived at the Mirador all the tiredness was gone, I took my tripod, my Sony A7rII and started shooting as much TimeLapse as I could, the feeling to be there and seeing with your own eyes this natural wonder so close, is indescribable. I also took out my Mavic Pro and went for a flight, what a flight!
As the river was low, we were able to go at the very bottom and dive into the small pool under the falls, there is nothing more energetic than swimming literally at the bottom of the Angel Falls!
We got back to the base camp just before sunset, where the locals made us an exquisite dinner, to finalise our day, we slept in an ‘Hamaca’ under the worming energy of the Auyan Tepuy.
The way back was a bit scary, as we started our journey during the night, we couldn’t see a thing, but the locals knew the river so well that they were able to avoid all the rocks that could flip over our boat. When the sun went up the journey was quite and relaxing, giving us the time to reflect on the incredible place we just witnessed.
This is Mattia's second We Are f-stop story - check out his trip to the Faroe Islands with another wonderful timelapse video here. You may find more of Mattia's work on his web site, Facebook and Instagram.
"We Are f-stop" is for all f-stop users to share their stories from the field, from small daily adventures to epic travels. Contact us with your story on Facebook or drop us an email to [email protected] and let us know where your photography takes you and your f-stop pack!
SHOP ALL GEAR MORE WE ARE f-stop
©2022 F-stop
At the heart of each f-stop backpack is the Internal Camera Unit (ICU). Designed to give you ultimate flexibility and ease when packing your camera kit, our range of ICUs (camera inserts) let you mix and match different ICUs to different packs for every adventure. This ICU size guide shows you which ICUs fit each backpack, so you can get the right one for your needs.
Click on the backpack name to see how each ICU fits!
Mountain Series | Ultra Light Series | |||||||
Lotus 32L | Lotus 4 CORE 28L | |||||||
Ideal | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Yes | Ideal | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
Yes | Ideal | Ideal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Yes | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | |
Yes | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | |
Yes | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | |
Yes | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | |
Yes | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | Ideal | |
(Coming soon)
As you can see, each f-stop backpack can hold a variety of ICUs as well as drone/tech pouches, packing cells, and more. When choosing your backpack/ICU combinations, you'll want to consider the following:
Not every pack is compatible or recommended to go with each Camera Insert. For instance, the Shinn 80 L is designed to accommodate large camera/video equipment. To fulfill this purpose, both the pack as well as the Cine Master insert have greater depth compared to other packs. The Master Cine ICU is significantly deeper than the Pro XL ICU. Therefore, when you are using an XL Camera insert it will not fill out the pack fully.
To avoid any movement of the camera insert in the pack, you should attach it to the side attachment loops inside each backpack (next to the aluminium frame). Learn how to insert and adjust your ICU in your pack (video guide).
Want to make the most of the space in your f-stop backpack? Check out our guide to stacking and hatch-backing.
Discount Applied Successfully!
Your savings have been added to the cart.
