Loved the look of the clouds today during my afternoon walk around work. Put on a circular polarizer today for my walk.

Don’t really know what I’ve been thinking for so long but I have never really put the kit lens I got with my camera on but only a time or two. I realized the other day that I really should be using wider angle lens once in a while and for some reason I thought I didn’t want to. But I did and I do.
It really is kind of exciting that I’ve opened a whole new world right around me by changing the perspective that the WA lens gives. Even though it’s no L glass it still pretty much rocks for a new way to SEE!

Another fun shot from my summer vacation and the great flight my friend took my on. Don’t remember what airport this was but there were a bunch of FedEx planes and a single DHL plane. It’s probably kind of close to the actual ratio of the 2 companies.
For some reason some of my previous photos that I’ve worked on from the flight didn’t get very good color IMO. I did an auto WB on this and it seems to be a bit better.

A shot from the photo walk in Redding. For the second year I was privileged to be a leader in Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk. It’s a great experience and I’ve met some great photographers in the process.

Been awhile so here is one with more to come!

Well I guess it had to happen. It’s been a while and I needed to get out the flashes and do something with them again. Of course the easiest model to use has always been myself unfortunately but until I get one of those heads they use at the beauty school I’ll have to do. Since I started reading the “Speedliters Handbook” by Syl Arena I’ve been itching to get out the lights so I finally did today. Forgot how one of the flashes test fire worked so I thought my batteries were dead and I needed to charge them up. I did need to charge but I ended up doing this way too late as usual but at least I have all 3 lights and how they work clear in my head now. Just wish I had cleaned my specs off first.

A little b&w effect that I call headlights noir.

We found these wonderful old olive trees in Gerber. Grafted from 100 year old trees they are like bonsai on steroids. Absolutely beautiful.

Here’s one from December. I did a family portrait shoot with a friend. This young man is stationed overseas and was home for Christmas.

I’m back. Finally got out today 1 month after my knee surgery. It is absolutely great to be able to walk around again without the need for a cane. Just went to a few of the old photo spots but it still was totally cool be to out.