Monday, October 29, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Intersection
River outlet on the Santa Cruz Boardwalk beach. I enjoyed the difference between the rushing water into the ocean and the retreating tide.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Sunday, September 16, 2012
38 Packard Goddess of Speed
I"ve missed the past few years of the Monterey Cherry's Jubilee. This year I took the day off of work so I could head downtown and take photos of all the classic cars and hot rods that rolled in for the Jubilee. Took lots of car details shots as it was hard to get full car shots without a bunch of people in the shot. I like the details better anyway.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Dahlia
I fought and fought against photographing flowers at a certain point of my 365 project. Why? I thought it was too easy and kind of a cop out on being creative. Well...I was wrong and have since gone out of my way to photograph them when I'm feeling a bit uncreative because they always seem to help me get out of my funk.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Transamerica Pyramid
I don't typically process photos like this but while playing around I decided I liked it. It reminds me of how I think of San Francisco...dirty and grungy and in need of a really good scrubbing.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Turquise Building
I took this photo of a funky building in San Francisco specifically for a Window Wednesday theme I participate in on Google+.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Bee on Flower
I've been experimenting with square images. I think this format works particularly well with macro photos...as this one is.
The only issue is it's a bit difficult finding square frames.
Friday, July 27, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Rust
Came across this very beat up and rusty Carmen Ghia the other day. I'm working on a scavenger hunt where rust is one of the items to find so this was my submission.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Flowers for inspiration
At one point in my 365 project I got it in my head that taking photos of flowers was cheating because they were so easy. Once I got over that I find that flowers help me get through those times I've feeling a bit non-creative. The last few days I've spent strolling the many public gardens around Monterey where flowers are almost always in bloom year round.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Nature's Kaleidoscope
While on a short hike through the redwoods I spotted this rather large spiderweb that was all lit up by the sun. The way the light was hitting it reminding me of a kaleidoscope.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Marina beach long exposure
One thing that I learned from my 365 project was that I really enjoyed trying to make painterly photos. One way to do this was to use a long exposure and motion. I get quite a bit of satisfaction out of creating something that some people do in post all in camera.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Davenport beach
I met up with over 50 other photographers last Saturday to celebrate the one year anniversary of Google+ by going out on a photowalk. We met at this little blip on the map north of Santa Cruz and ventured down on the beach for part of the day and then down into Santa Cruz for dinner and some street photography. Big Sur has the most beautiful coast views but between Santa Cruz and San Francisco runs a very close second.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Big Basin Redwood SP
Someone called the shot "crunchy"...not sure what they meant. This was on a gaming forum in a photography thread...where for some reason my shots are the only ones that get any kind of negative critiques.
Is the shot good? bad? I have no clue anymore...
Monday, July 2, 2012
Big Basin Redwood State Park
Camping amongst the California Redwoods got me an opportunity to work on my black and white skills.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Cross Shadow
To celebrate my wife graduating from college we drove down through Carmel Valley and stopped at the Soledad Mission, which is this small mission out in the middle of nowhere that was restored in the 1950's. It was a beautiful little spot to stop and have a picnic lunch and wander the little chapel and museum. I was drawn to the shadows being cast in the chapel. #blackandwhitephotography #photography #shadows
Friday, May 25, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Black & White Ferns
Taken from a 4th floor walkway looking down into a small courtyard at a local hotel.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Duct tape solution
In the Army we used duct tape (or as we called it hundred mile an hour tape) to keep our vehicles together in a pinch. This is the rear corner of a "tour" bus I spotted in San Francisco recently. It was parked so lets hope it has been decommissioned.
The reeds in my last photo have been identified by some G+ commenters as Horsetail reeds.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Reeds
Not sure what kind of reed this is...I assumed they were found near lakes and ponds (since that's where I've seen them typically) but these were outside a building in San Francisco.
I enjoyed the contrast of them against the adobe wall.
Friday, March 23, 2012
I'll cut you (part 2)
Can you make something downright nasty, like concertina wire, into something more pleasing to the eye?
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Lines
I wasn't sure what I'd find on the photowalk but it was pretty apparent when I got there that my focus would be on lines and shapes.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
Shadows
The cloud cover opened up just enough as I walked by some storefronts and this shadow formed on a large concrete support. The louvred overhang supplied the pattern.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Streamers on a wire
I was just thinking the other day while walking around campus and seeing kids with their iPods on and furiously texting while walking that they must miss so many things. I'm always taking in my environment...then again I don't own a Smart phone.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Mirror mirror
Funny thing is I've walked by these mirrors several times while roaming around the town I live in and never thought to take a photo. It took heading to San Francisco and consciously looking for lines and shapes for me to find it appealing.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
I will cut you!
Another from the SF photowalk. I had gotten away from the main group of people and found this concertina wire on top of an old fence. As people came up on me shooting these a line formed behind me...my theme was lines and shapes and I created my own line...of people waiting behind me. Haha...I make myself laugh sometimes.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
I'm going that way
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Cormorants
It was really foggy the day I went out with my camera while visiting the Seattle/Tacoma area over the holiday. I have a friend who lives near Steel Lake in Federal Way, WA so I stopped on my way to visit him. Found these Cormorants lined up on old pilings in the water.