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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Can't we all just get along?
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 7:26AM | in California, HDR, Pasadena Pasadena's City Hall is a beautiful place and I am lucky enough to be able to visit once in a while. If I see that the sunset is particularly pretty, I often walk over and make a few images.
This is a pretty nice 1932 Ford Coupe. No idea if it's real or a recreation. Doesn't matter much to me. I just thought it was cool.
Post a Comment | tagged California, Car, Car Show, Creative, HDR, Santa Ana | Share Article Permalink Email Article Monday, June 7, 2010 at 6:03AM | in HDR, Travel, Union Station, Washington DC Manny and I had been told by security that we couldn't use our tripods on the floor of Union Station, so we climbed up some stairs to an elevated open air resturant. I asked the seating hostess if we could use our tripod during our lunch and she said "sure no problem". This is one of the shots we took. Union Station is a beautiful place.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 7:49PM | in California, HDR, Pasadena I had been working really late night after night and found myself once again sitting in front of my computer at work, feeling really sleepy. I thought that maybe a walk around old town Pasadena might wake me up so I headed out camera in hand. I decided to have dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and upon walking out, I saw four students from the Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts College walking side-by-side. I couldn't resist taking this shot. I walked back to work in the fading light.
Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 6:19PM | in Academy of Science, California, Golden Gate Park, HDR, Museum, San Francisco, Travel California Academy of Sciences, Steinhart Aquarium, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Saint Valentines Day: I was waiting for Kathy and just sitting across from this large glass viewing window, thinking that the lighting in the room was very beautiful when this young couple walked up to the glass. I thought they were framed pretty nicely by it. Seemed kind of like a first date type situation. After taking the sequence of shots, I went in search of my own beloved girl.
Friday, June 4, 2010 at 6:04AM | in California, Car Show, Cars, HDR, Ruby's Car Show, Whittier Wow I just couldn't take enough photos of this super fine '59. In an era of tall fins being very popular on cars, Chevy designers went for the wide stance. Good decision I reckon.
2 Comments | tagged 1959, California, Car, Car Show, HDR, Ruby's Car Show, Whittier | Share Article Permalink Email Article Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 6:25AM | in California, HDR, Hearst Castle, Panorama, Travel Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 6:44AM | in California, Car Show, Cars, HDR, Whittier I saw several 1939 Chevy's at the 2009 Uptown Whittier Car Show but I think this was one of the nicest. Only HDR seems to be able to reveal the high gloss reflectivity of the paint on these customized cars. If you look just to the left of the license plate you can clearly see my rolling backpack, tripod and me taking the photos used to create this composite image.
Post a Comment | tagged California, Car, Car Show, Cars, HDR, Uptown Whittier, Whittier | Share Article Permalink Email Article Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 5:41AM | in Aviation, California, Chino Planes of Fame Museum, HDR, Museum I was a little shocked to see the condition of this seemingly famous experimental aircraft. It was rotting away in the boneyard at the Chino Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, CA. It turns out this is just a television prop. It was built and used for a show called Quantum Leap in 1989. The actual X-2 became the first aircraft to fly higher than 100,000 feet with pilot Iven C. Kincheloe at the controls. It was lost after becoming the first aircraft to fly in excess of Mach 3. The pilot Milburn G. "Mel" Apt was killed and the test program was ended.
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 10:41PM | in HDR, Korean War Memorial, National Mall, Travel, Washington DC They fought a war to help people they had never met and were largely forgotten when they returned home. This is the Korean War Memorial in Washington D.C.
It was raining fairly hard when I took this shot. Manny was holding an umbrella over me and the camera but some water still got on the lens.
