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all the pictures from shooting day one | day two | day three | day four | day five | day six | day seven | day eight | of my trip are now posted

Day two of my ten day photo excursion and workshop is posted. Images cover a visit to Bodie and Big Pine, California. | Day One

Two boulders and half dome

Day one of my 10 day photo trip and workshop is now online. enjoy! | Day two

looking up, the sky is touched with a tint of pink and light, I love it when there are clouds here

busy bees buzzing around the lavendar on a warm summer afternoon

powdery stamen inside the lily

a brilliant green fern tucked away alongside a creek in the big basin redwoods state park

a single tree lit by the filtered sun

The trunks of the very large redwoods in Big Basin Redwoods State park. The bark of these trees bear the marks of a past fire.

the blood red of the rose against the soft velvet green leaf

another single ant coming out of the center of the flower. i shot this with the extension tube (EF25) on the 28-80mm macro zoom lens. i am still working out if it is possible to hand-hold and get an image without shakes. so far i am about 50-50 successful.

a look into the depths of a nasturtium and we find a visitor.

peruvian lillies have spots and stripes and the most intense colors in the evening.

some of this recent macro work is featured over at 28mm.org. i am very excited to be "showing" this set of work shot in my rose garden.

the color of spring moving into summer—my rose garden is full of this color

inside the rose the light glows.

interesting article at the NYTimes on photoblogging: Prospecting for Gold Among the Photo Blogs

old bed springs create an interesting contrast to the mountains, rhyolite, death valley

Jackrabbit in the brush and the caretaker’s house in the distance, Rhyolite, Death Valley

old car in rhyolite, death valley

sheds in rhyolite, death valley

dawn over the dunes and the light is golden which causes the dunes to glow with a reddish cast

mines in 20 mule canyon, death valley

lagoon at the oasis hotel in furnace creek, death valley

sunset on the mountains north of rhyolite

dune, death valley, ca 2003

evening light hits the dunes in death valley

signs of life, even fleeting, are everywhere in death valley. even in the dunes.

Cherry blossoms all abloom in Portland a few weeks ago. This is the beginning of the Japanese Memorial by the river downtown.

dawn on the dunes in death valley—we got up at 5 am to get situated for the sunrise

dawn comes overcast and the hills are flat and painterly

view from the top of dante's peak—looking out across the salt river flats in the valley

marble canyon: looking back down the path

rhyolite caboose: sits at the top of the hill

early dawn is blue light on the dunes

panorama spliced together of death valley —looking down on the valley from the mouth of marble canyon

20 mule canyon —raincloud over the valley

in a week I will heading out for a photographic weekend class down in death valley. seeing these shots from Edward Weston is inspiration for my trip as I plan what cameras and film to take. (image shown here is by edward weston)

an entry posted on lalaland.

Sometimes photography is about the little things. Somtimes it is about the big things that make you feel small and insignificant.
Photodude sums it up here:

“But there's a handful of times in my life where I felt the way I did around these Live Oaks; at Monument Valley, Yosemite, Antelope Canyon, the Atlanta Olympics. Places or times of unmatched visual grandeur.

Times that are almost paralyzing, because you find yourself at a place where you can take no bad pictures, and have little hope of capturing all the good ones. Being immersed in a place where you are surrounded by wonderous scenes is both pleasurable and intermittently painful. There's the joy of capturing scenes you love, and the agony of what you know you're missing (there's no way to get them all) or not doing justice to in your compositions, plus the knowledge you may never get back there again. But I dealt with it somehow.”

I can say I had the same feelings about Mono Lake and Alaska and Haleakala and other places I have been and photographed.

the mirror project hits 10,000

Vast expanse of sage brush around Mono Lake. Seen with Color Infrared.

Just got my photos back from our company holiday party - held at the end of January. I took the Lomo and am pleasantly surprised with most of the images. There are some stripy things going on so the quality isn't that great on the darkest images - but the fact that none of these indoor shots were taken with a flash, leads me to want to explore getting a new one of these cameras. The party was fun and one of the highlights was the Extra Action Marching Band from Oakland. They were cool. They were crazy.

I really do like the Mirror Project and am now on a mission to see what other cool shots I can take of myself and friends reflected.

Wonderful photo album from Rolling Stone magazine, featuring images of George Harrison and the Beatles.

Playing a bit with the macro lens on the Canon. Caught up with this butterfly checking out the Mexican Sage. It let me get about 6 inches away before flying off. Haven't been able to catch the hummingbirds yet.

Driving home this evening, ready to turn into my driveway, I noticed the tree across the street. The sun was hitting the branches in a way I had not noticed before and the gnarled, windy limbs were like sculpture against the sky. (if only the powerlines were gone)

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the pied piper	little piggie	stephen's meat products
stephen's meat products	motel city center	motel city center
alma bowl	alma bowl & pizza	5 spot drive in on first street
5 spot drive	stop at the 5 spot drive	garden theater
behind elite	elite	elite cleaners
garden theater

around town, not far from where i live are a ton of signs sporting neon and interesting typography. most of these seem to be older signs from the 50s or 60s and are still in use today. i haven't been by at night to know if the neon is still being used. there are more out there - san jose seems to be a mecca for this type of sign and hasn't been "upgraded" yet. these are a few captured with the new digital camera and experiementing with the in camera saturation.

Experimenting with a 89B Infrared filter on the CanonD30 digtal camera. I spent the day driving around south of San Jose, Ca. The hills have turned golden and the live oaks are all that are green across the landscape. It is hot and the sun burns my skin. This resevoir in Uva (south of San Jose) looks inviting and mysticalin infrared. [CanonD30, 35mm focal length, 8f stop, 4 second exposure, 89B filter tucked behind a UV filter - image reduced in photoshop to 40% original, added green and bumped contrast]

I have been experimenting with a new filter that blocks all but the infrared light. Much like infrared film but no film involved. Here are a couple of early results. Am still working through how you focus when you can't see and what the right shutter speed should be.
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