Howdy all! Hope everyone had a great holiday. Christmas was enjoyed by all here. Gifts were given, wrapping paper destroyed, boxes were played with. Here's a lil' somethin' to get the pictures flowin' again. I really dug this concept car from Nissan. Taken at the L.A. Auto show, of course.
A very Merry Christmas to everyone! I hope this day finds you enjoying time with your family and/or friends. Once I break out of the great wrapping paper mountain, I'll be enjoying our heated pool spa. Love California! By the way, the "lens" in the picture is actually a mug that my beautiful wife bought me for Christmas.
I want to wish a Happy Birthday to the most beautiful daughter I could have ever hoped for. I love you sweet pea.
Hey, it's my 700th post!! If you haven't taken a look back through the archives, you should give it a shot. There are lots of Labels on the right side to direct you to specific posts, you can go to certain months, or just keep clicking "Older Posts" at the bottom. Happy Holidays!
This is the main picture for our family Christmas card this year. We thought we would should the things that we suffer living here in So Cal. ;) I get the best looks from my kids when I just count to 3 and tell them to do something crazy.
I've decided to make this week iPhone picture week. All iPhone all the time. At least for this week. I also want to drive home the idea of "the best camera is the one you have with you". Camera phones have evolved to a point where they are easily competing with point and shoot cameras. I find myself using my phone in many instances where I would've use my point and shoot in the past. It's not only the improved picture quality and control over exposure, but also the ability to edit and share right from the same device. Many times while I'm out shooting with my big camera, I will take some iPhone pictures too just so I can share them right away. Whatever your capturing images with, push yourself to be creative and show people the world through your eyes.
Aaaaannnndddd...I'm back. Whew, what a crazy week I had last week. I went from having only one day of work to working almost 4 days solid. Lots of late nights, but cool people and interesting projects. I did a little Christmas photo session with the kids yesterday, which I'll be sharing a little closer to the day. It was rough, being that it was 85 degrees and they were in the pool. ;)
Today's image comes courtesy of my iPhone and a train. The clouds and mountains were so beautiful on the day we took a train ride in Fillmore. There's something about riding on a train that is so peaceful and relaxing. Have a great week!
I can't wait for this movie! I saw this car at the L.A. Auto Show and I knew I wanted to take it home and slap it around in Photoshop. I know it's gonna be awesome in the movie, driving around blowing things up. Thus, my tribute to hornet who is green.
I rarely go to downtown L.A. Even rarer still is going to downtown and not being the driver. On the way home from the auto show, my dad was driving so I got to do some sightseeing of L.A. at night. It just so happens that it was around 5 p.m. and the traffic was, ah, not moving very quickly. Ok, it was stop and go. Mostly stop. I had time to think, "Pretty buildings. Sure would be great to take a picture of them." Being the quick thinker that I am, I grabbed my fancy schmancy camera and took some pictures out the open window. Most of them were crappy (surprise) but a few turned out a'ight. Here's my fav.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and a relaxing weekend. We had a great, low key time at my parents house. I got this shot while my mom was setting the table, and I loved the simplicity of it.
I spent almost the entire day at the L.A. Auto Show with my dad, and it was awesome! We had a great time looking at and talking about cars new and old. I am an unabashed car lover, so this is like a candy store for me. I'm not a car fix-it guy, but I look at beautiful cars as rolling works of art. I love the details and precision, the beauty and strength. Man, I sound like a fairy or something. Anyway, I went, I saw, I took pictures. Here's a few of my favorites.
While visiting Monterery (yes there will be posts that don't include Monterey) my cousin and his wife, along with their beautiful baby, took us to a great mexican restaurant. No, I don't remember the name of it, because, well, I have trouble remembering stuff. Sometimes I have my kids wear name tags. Anyway, I thought the outside of the place was pretty photogenic so I took this picture. See, I can have a post about Monterey/Carmel that doesn't include water!
This DC-3 was beautifully restored by veteran pilot Clay Lacy. He brought it back to luxury airline condition as it would have been when it was flown for TWA. I love living in a place where I can walk out my front door and see such awesome aircraft. Van Nuys airport FTW!
It's terrible, but I don't remember that name of these creatures. I think they're some kind of anemone, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I thought they looked cool, so let's call them Awesome Anemone.
Mmmm, long exposures. So many cool things can happen when you point your camera at something cool and just leave the shutter open for a while. I've long admired the ghostly looking water in other people's images, so when I saw this view from the balcony of my hotel room, I had to give it a try.
There's lots of trial and error that goes into getting an image like this. The exposure here was about 4 seconds, and I waited until a big wave crashed on the rock in the middle. I took about 10 other shots that were pretty blah, but it all came together on this one. Experiment. You might come up with something cool!
I find jellyfish endlessly fascinating. Their movements seem so random, but they always get where they're going. Or maybe they don't really have any place to go, and they're just happy wherever they end up.
See, I told you I was back for reals! From the big to the small, today we see the tiny world of shrimp while they're feeding. No really, they're in there!
I apologize for the long absence, but work kinda snuck up on me. I'm back with a full week of new images though! I generally try to vary the subject of my images during the week, but this week I definitely found myself drawn to watery images. Maybe this has something to do with my recent trip to Monterey and Big Sur. ;) So you can look forward to images of the sea and the creatures that live within it. To kick things off, here's an image from Big Sur around that delectable time of day. Delectable? Yeah, good light seems tasty to me.
The 17 Mile drive between Monterey and Carmel is just specatcular. Beautiful rugged coastline and some pretty stunning homes. Yep, it was cold. My poor Southern California body could hardly stand it! ;)
This the Lone Cypress at Pebble Beach. Apparently it's famous. I took a picture of it.
On the way home from a train ride in Filmore I looked in my rear view mirror and say this. I pulled over rather quickly. Such a spectacular day.
We took a beautiful drive yesterday down Highway 1 to Big Sur. This is some of the most spectacular coastline in all of California. I've wanted to go there ever since I moved out to Los Angeles, but never got around to it. Check it off the list baby! The weather was perfect and the traffic was light. To top it off, we found this awesome place to eat called the Restaurant at Ventana. If you're ever in the Big Sur area, you owe it to yourself to try it out. Heading home tomorrow. :( This trip has just made me want to come back again and explore.
I took this last night outside our beautiful hotel. We are loving our time in Monterey. The aquarium was awesome and I can't wait to see what we check out tomorrow. Have a great day!
Greetings from beautiful Carmel-by-the-sea, California. We're actually staying in Monterey, but drove over to Carmel to see the sunset. This is our first trip here and we have been blown away so far. Tomorrow we are headed to the world famous Monterey Bay Aquarium for a full day of looking and learning. Later I'll try to post a picture of the view from our room. (Spoiler: it's awesome)
Today I'm heading to a place I've never been. 2 hints: it's in California and I'm driving. Probably doesn't narrow it down very much. ;) As soon as I get a decent picture (or two) from there, all will become clear.
My beautiful baby girl dressed up as a fairy princess for Halloween. Yes I know I'm lucky. Yes I will have a shotgun handy when the teenage boys come over.
Yesterday was a very sad day as we found out about our dear friend Roberta's passing. My tribute to her.
Is it Friday already? It's almost Halloweeny time! I'm dressing up as a monk. You? My wife and I are going to some swanky Halloween/magic/dancing grown up party tonight. My wife's gonna be an enchantress. She's certainly enchanted me. Stop groaning.
What an awesome day this was! My family and I drove out to Point Loma to see the Cabrillo monument and the historic light house. A bonus prize for this trip was one of the best views of San Diego and the Bay that you can find. Took me a lot longer to put this together on my computer than it did to take it! For the MUCH BIGGER size, click here.
Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a great weekend. Here's a couple of images that I took from the roof of my hotel in San Diego. It was such a beautiful evening.
Hope everyone has a great Sunday. Check back tomorrow for some San Diego sunset goodness!
This is the historic lighthouse on Point Loma in San Diego. The original structure was built in 1855 and has been renovated several times. It's no longer used, but it's an awesome place to visit and the views of San Diego are stunning. I was lucky to be there on an overcast day to capture and image I had been kicking around in my head for a while. I love how the trees have been bent by the constant wind coming in from the Pacific. Using an extremely wide angle lens distorted the lighthouse so it too seems bent from the wind.
Sorry about the late posting today, I was wiped out last night. Hope everyone is having a non cloudy day today!
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