Sunday
Nov152009
Holiday Illumination
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 12:17AM | in California, Disney, HDR 
Sleeping Beauty's castle illuminated for the Christmas season.
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to my personal blog. Here I post examples of my photography and writing. I specialize in making unique and highly detailed photographs. Notice I said making and not taking. Yes I take photos but a lot of time and work is involved in pushing and punishing the pixels in my images to achieve the look I like.
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Entries in California (322)
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 12:17AM | in California, Disney, HDR Tuesday
Nov102009
Check Six
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 11:46PM | in Aviation, California, HDR 
Following close behind a taxing 747-400
Taking HDR sequences from a moving car following a moving aircraft is difficult to say the least. Thank goodness for Photoshop's auto align function. We were riding in Mike's car who works at LAX in operations and were following this Singapore Airlines cargo plane. The tail was nearly overlapping the hood of the car. I have photos of it but being that my head doesn't tilt that far back, I had to extend my arms forward and just guess where it was when framing the shot. I guess I should try creating a vertorama. Being this close to such a large moving aircraft is amazing. You hear and feel it adjusting it's flight controls and throttles. When it turned in front of us the car rocked a little from the exhaust. Thanks to Kevin and Mike for an amazing day!
Tuesday
Nov102009
Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 11:03PM | in Aviation, California, HDR 
I think we're being followed...
I was on a ride along with a very cool LAX airport operations guy. He was called on to escort a FedEx MD10 Aircraft that needed to taxi from one side of the airport to another. An escort was required since a mechanic was behind the controls and an active runway had to be crossed.
When I looked at the aircraft in the side mirror, I started laughing at the "Objects in this mirror are closer than they appear" text you see in the picture. It reminded me of that scene in Jurassic Park where the T-Rex was chasing the Jeep. That aircraft looked huge!
Monday
Nov022009
Halloween Time at Disneyland
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 9:10AM | in Bokeh, California, Creative, Disney, HDR 
The entrance to Disneyland is beautifully themed with a Halloween decorations.
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Nov012009
The Jacks
Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 6:55PM | in Bokeh, California, Creative, Fun, Whittier 
Front porch display
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Oct262009
Heavy Metal Thunder
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:19PM | in California, Creative, HDR, Whittier 
I saw this cool motorcycle parked just outside of the Uptown Whittier Car Show.
Monday
Oct262009
Window Seat
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 9:14PM | in Bokeh, California, Creative, HDR, Lensbaby 
I took this shot at the Subway restaurant near my work in Pasadena California.
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Oct252009
Lets Ride!
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 12:40AM | in California, Creative, Disney, HDR, Lensbaby 
Hopper glares at passers-by at Disney California Adventure.
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Sep212009
Good Rockin' Tonight
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:17AM | in California, Creative, Disney 
Roots of rock and roll
Friday
Sep182009
Flamed Ford Coupe
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 5:30AM | in California, Cars, Creative, HDR, Whittier 
style to burn
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