NANPA Trade Show

Gura Gear will be at the North American Nature Photography Association's conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico from February 18-22, 2009. Please come and visit us if you are planning on attending the show. We will have our Kiboko bag with us at the booth! I will be offline for the next few days as a result of my heading over to Albuquerque tomorrow.

For more information, please click on the logo below.

Inside Digital Photo Radio Interview now available

I was recently interviewd by Scott Sheppard over at Inside Digital Photo Radio, and we chatted about my photography, my African safaris, photographic equipment, and of course my camera backpack company Gura Gear.

You can read more about the interview, as well as listen to the interview on Inside Digital Radio's web site by clicking on the logo below. The interview was on the November 29 episode.

Update on Friday, December 12, 2008 at 09:41AM by Andy Biggs

There are 2 ways to listen to the interview:

1) Follow this link to the Inside Digital Photo web site.

2) Listen to the podcast from within iTunes. Here is the link.

TWiP interview now available

This past Friday I was interviewd by Scott Bourne, Alex Lindsay and the gang over at This Week in Photography, more commonly referred to as TWiP.

You can hear the interview in a few different ways:

1) Go to the TWiP website to locate podcast #55

2) Click on this link to be taken directly to the page

3) Subscribe to the This Week in Photography (TWiP) podcast in the iTunes Music Store and listen to podcast #55

The interview begins at about the 18:00 minute mark. We had a great time discussing various parts of my safari business, Gura Gear and my recent deal with Banana Republic.

Gura Gear Launches!

WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER ANDY BIGGS LAUNCHES LINE OF EXPERTLY DESIGNED PHOTO GEAR BAGS

CHICAGO (November 4, 2008)—Inspired by his extensive travel and career in wildlife photography, outdoor photographer Andy Biggs has launched Gura Gear; an innovative line of camera bags designed to help photographers get the perfect shot. Gura Gear will offer on-the-go photographers a lightweight and comfortable yet highly functional alternative to bulky photo gear currently available to photographers.

The Kiboko bag is the first design from the Gura Gear line. Weighing in at only 4 pounds, the Kiboko is the lightest bag in its class. Designed with the needs of the photographer in mind, the bag allows all photo gear to be safely stored and comfortably carried but also quickly accessed. The Kiboko bag is deep enough to accommodate a pro level SLR camera body, as well as medium format cameras. The bag will also hold up to a 500mm and 600mm lens simultaneously. The Kiboko bag is made from high-tech Dimension Polyant VX-21, a unique and durable water-shedding material made from the same process that is used on some of the fastest lightweight sailboats in the world. The outer materials are abrasion and tear resistant and the interior is well padded, ensuring that the bag and your equipment will hold up regardless of the terrain you’re photographing.

The Kiboko bag can be carried either as a backpack with a retractable, expertly engineered harness system or as a shoulder bag using ergonomically placed handles. The Kiboko also features a convenient butterfly flap access system, allowing the photographer to easily get to multiple bodies, lenses and all their photo accessories. The bag’s interior is also fully customizable to suit the photographers’ individual needs. The Kiboko’s harness system fully retracts for loading into airplanes and can be used as a carry on for most flights. Every detail of the Kiboko bag has been specifically designed, down to the zippers that can be handled even while wearing winter gloves.

Gone are the days where you have to decide whether weight or functionality is more important when transporting your photo gear. Gura Gear is a smart, new way of transporting equipment, designed for photographers by photographers. The innovative design, materials and technology that goes into each Gura Gear bag far exceeds any comparable camera bag on the market. For more information about Gura Gear and the Kiboko bag please visit visit www.guragear.com.

Gura Gear update

Just a quick update for those who are interested. Our web site is completely finished, and we are just waiting on the SSL certificate process to be complete. Any day now we will have our site live and ready to go! I am looking forward to showing what I have been working on for the past few years.

Gura Gear update

Just a quick update for those who are waiting to see what Gura Gear is all about. We have received all of our inventory, and are going through some late web site changes that are necessary on the ecommerce front. These changes are necessitating a platform move, and will take a number of weeks to complete. I am also heading out on safari in a few weeks, which will delay a formal launch of guragear.com.

It is very exciting to bring a groundbreaking product to market, and it is also killing me to have to delay that launch a little bit more. Such is the life in a startup company that is made up of pretty much one person.

If you are interested in learning more, you can click on the Gura Gear logo above to go to our web site and sign up to be notified when the site launches.

Gura Gear camera bag status

 

I have been receiving a fair amount of emails lately, asking about the status of Gura Gear. As of right now, the bags are somewhere on a container ship in the Pacific ocean. My standard reply is that there aren't GPS coordinates of the ship, nor up-to-date tracking numbers for freight on these ships. If you have contacted me in the past, I have put your name and email on a list to be contacted when the bags show up and are ready to ship. A complicating factor is that my wife and our 2 year old son are expecting an addition to our family any day. This will be a very very exciting time for us, and will create a unique situation of trying to ship my initial round of orders. We are using an outsourced fulfillment company, and am working on testing out the process prior to the bags arriving.

I have a link on www.guragear.com that will capture those who would like to be informed that have not already contacted me.