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?
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 8:35PM | in California, Creative, Fisheye, Whittier 
Monday, September 9, 2013 at 9:59PM | in Bokeh, Creative, Culture, HDR, Lensbaby, Museum, National Art Museum, National Mall, Smithsonian, Travel, Washington DC 
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Last June, my niece Alexandra, her boyfriend Josh and I decided to head down to San Diego for the weekend. Neither of them had really spent much time there and I wanted them to see the Midway aircraft carrier museum. We stayed at the Embassy Suites, San Diego Bay which has a spectacular atrium. Since I had my fisheye lens I decided to try a vertorama with it. This consists of 5 HDR sequences each consisting of 3 shots. I didn't really think Photoshop CS6 would be able to stitch it together but it did it without a problem. Pretty amazing!
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 9:13PM | in California, Creative, Embarcadero, Lensbaby, Night, San Francisco, Sweet 35 
Kathy and I were walking around in San Francisco last March and wandered down the length of the Embarcadero. This was taken right by the Bay Bridge which had some interesting lights on it. The sunset was pretty. We both had our tripods. This was taken with my Lensbaby. I really miss San Francisco. I want to go back soon.
Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 6:04PM | in Bokeh, Boston, Creative, Lensbaby, Massachusetts, Sweet 35, Travel 
I was in Boston in June 2012 for the HOW Design Conference. My coworkers and I had the opportunity of touring several local design studios. It was interesting to see the work each developed, their clients and design aesthetic. While touring Stoltze Design I saw this cool paper cutout for what seemed to be a promotional piece for a celebration called “Drinko De Mayo”. Pretty cool and funny.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 9:06PM | in Arizona, Bokeh, Creative, Lensbaby, Motorcycle Here's another shot of the "tattoo" motorcycle Kathy and I saw at Buddy Stubbs Car and Motorcycle show in Phoenix Arizona. I had already taken a bunch of HDR sequences of this bike, packed up my camera gear and was waiting in the shade for Kathy to finish when I remembered I had my lens baby with me. I decided to go back and get a few more shots.
Post a Comment | tagged Arizona, Bokeh, Creative, Lensbaby, Motorcycle, Phoenix | Share Article Permalink Email Article Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 9:02PM | in California, Creative, Disney, Fisheye, Fun This was our first visit to Cars Land. We all knew it would be spectacular but it still exceeded our expectations. The big changes started as soon as we walked into the park. The Golden Gate bridge was gone and most of the old entry buildings with them. Kathy said it looked very Disney Worldish. I agree. Very immersive and impressive. Now that summer is over and the huge crowds have gone home I really want to go back and take more images.
Monday, September 3, 2012 at 2:18PM | in California, Car Show, Cars, Chevrolet, Chevy, Creative, HDR, Uptown Whittier Car Show, Whittier Another early morning shot from the 2012 Uptown Whittier Car Show. Featured here is Ron Medina's incredible 1963 Chevy Surburban parked along side other amazing cars from the So Cal Tribe car club. Smart guys that they are, they arrived early and got some primo parking spots in the shade of the big trees you see here. That shade came in handy when the temperature exceeded 100 degrees that afternoon. I was moving at my usual methodical pace, while Kathy was doing her usual ass kicking, take no prisoners, get-the-hell-out-of my-way pace. You can see her and her tripod in the upper left of this image. She had already shot the four cars between her and I not to mention the cars across the street. I get too fixated on one car for too long, trying to figure out what shot would look best. I really need to work on that. To quote Ferris Bueller Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 9:35PM | in Bobs Big Boy Broiler, California, Car Show, Cars, Creative, Downey, HDR Here's another shot of this amazing green Chevelle I saw at the Bob's Big Boy Broiler. This side view better shows how reflective this car is.
Monday, July 12, 2010 at 6:49AM | in California, Creative, Disney Glow-Fest at Disney California Adventure. This guy was an amazing dancer. Lots and lots of people were watching his moves, taking pictures and dancing around the lighted platform he was on.
