Make Believe California
Dusk at Disney California Adventure park. This entire area is scheduled for demolition next year so I thought I should probably capture it for posterity. I used the Lensbaby Composer for this shot.
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Can't we all just get along?
Dusk at Disney California Adventure park. This entire area is scheduled for demolition next year so I thought I should probably capture it for posterity. I used the Lensbaby Composer for this shot.
Sleeping Beauty's castle illuminated for the Christmas season.
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!
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!
The entrance to Disneyland is beautifully themed with a Halloween decorations.
Front porch display
I saw this cool motorcycle parked just outside of the Uptown Whittier Car Show.
I took this shot at the Subway restaurant near my work in Pasadena California.
Hopper glares at passers-by at Disney California Adventure.
Roots of rock and roll