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.
Please feel free make comments about any of my words or photos. I enjoy constructive critiques, learning about locations to shoot or photography techniques. Click on the "Share Article" link to share any of my photos via Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
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Can't we all just get along?
Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 10:26AM | in Aviation, California, HDR This spit polish F-86 was spectacular and quite difficult to photograph without becoming part of the image. I've visited the Chino Planes of Fame museum many times but have never seen this aircraft before. I think it may have been on a short term loan. It would be amazing to see it fly!
Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 5:52PM | in Aviation, California, Creative, HDR World War II's Pacific theater's premiere fighter the Lockheed P-38J Lightning.
Post a Comment | tagged Aviation, California, Creative, HDR, P-38 | Share Article Permalink Email Article Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 10:55PM | in California, Cars, Creative, HDR, Whittier 
Heavy Metal 2, originally uploaded by big_pixel_pusher.
Wow what a very cool truck this was. I wish I had taken even more images of it. It was super clean and had a very reflective paint job. This is also one of the first HDR images I ever took. I've learned quite a bit in the past 10 months and Flickr has been a great source of inspiration and information. Thanks to everybody who comments on my images and who have shared their photography and techniques with me. If you grabbed me by the collar 10 months ago and told me that I would soon have my own photography blog and be writing a book about my photo processing techniques I would have thought you were crazy. I'm looking forward to seeing what the future brings although I'm not really sure what form it may take. I can feel the ground giving way and I just want to go with it.
2 Comments | tagged California, Car, Creative, HDR, Whittier | Share Article Permalink Email Article Monday, June 22, 2009 at 10:44PM | in California, HDR, San Francisco, Street Car, Travel 
Outside looking in, originally uploaded by big_pixel_pusher.
The Fisherman's Wharf Walgreens store is reflected in the windows of this San Francisco Municipal Railway streetcar. All of the F line cars park at this spot for about 5 to 10 minutes making this a fantastic place to take photos of them. I can setup my tripod and in an hour capture images of several different streetcars.
Monday, June 22, 2009 at 9:41PM | in California, Cars, Creative, Culture, HDR This is an absolutely clean Chevy station wagon I spotted at the Uptown Whittier 2008 car show. The owner was really cool and let me take whatever shots I wanted, lowered the hood for me. The engine was cherry too. Very nice for a "Rude Wagon"
1 Comment | tagged California, Car, Creative, Culture, HDR, Whittier | Share Article Permalink Email Article Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 11:36PM | in California, HDR, San Francisco, Street Car, Travel 
Streetcar 1052, originally uploaded by big_pixel_pusher.
Explored: June 22, 2009 - Highest position: #2 on June 24, 2009
San Francisco's Municipal Railway's streetcar no. 1052 awaits passengers at Fisherman's Wharf before departing for the Castro district. I can't seem to take enough photos of these amazing streetcars.
2 Comments | tagged California, HDR, Night, San Francisco, Street Car, Travel | Share Article Permalink Email Article Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 10:39PM | in California, Creative, HDR, San Francisco, Travel Resturant in the San Francisco's marina district. Kathy and I were tired after a very long walk to the Palace of Fine Arts and decided to stop here for lunch. As I remember, it was very good food and a welcome rest.
Highest position in Explore: #377 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I went to Chicago for my company's Creative Summit. A three day conference held for all of Parson's creatives company wide. There were graphic designers, 3D artists, writers, editors, coordinators and supervisors present. It was a great and valuable experience.
I stayed at the hotel Club Quarters at 75 Wacker. I was lucky enough to get a room on the 29th floor of the tower section of the hotel that overlooks the Chicago River.
This photo was taken by opening the window and extending my arms (but not my body) out as far as I could to take a 3 shot HDR. There was no way I could have managed my normal 10 shots. I had to use Photoshop's align layers function to compensate for my camera shake. Hand held HDR's are difficult, especially when taken from 300 feet above the ground.
Hotel window view
The Field Museum's Brachiosaurus Dinosaur towers over Ohare's terminal one. I had just gone through the TSA's security checkpoint at United Airlines' terminal one at Chicago Ohare when I spotted this huge dinosaur towering above. It seems this is a replica of a Brachiosaurus that is in the collection of the Field museum. I need to visit!
Post a Comment | tagged Airport, Creative Summit, Dinosaur, HDR, Ohare, Terminal, Travel | Share Article Permalink Email Article Ohare walkway to Terminal One. This walkway is located under one of the active runways at Ohare and is used to get from ground transportation to United's terminal one.
This is a 3 exposure HDR shot hand held. I fully expected security to come running over when I took my camera out of my bag and began shooting.
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