Monday
Nov232009
Ice Cold Refreshment
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 5:34AM | in California, Creative, Disney, HDR, Lensbaby 
Dramatic evening sky over Disney California Adventure park's Hollywood back lot.
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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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Entries in HDR (368)
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 5:34AM | in California, Creative, Disney, HDR, Lensbaby Monday
Nov232009
Attention all Security Guards
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 5:32AM | in HDR, National Air and Space Museum, Spacecraft, Travel, Washington DC 
If you want to get the attention of any Smithsonian Museum security guard, just lay down on the floor. This worked for me. Elapsed time about 10 seconds.
Monday
Nov232009
Storm Coming
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 5:30AM | in HDR, Travel, Washington DC 
And it did rain on Kathy and I this night. We were on our way to the Lincoln and Korean War memorials.
Monday
Nov232009
Bike Station - Washington D.C.
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 5:28AM | in HDR, Travel, Washington DC 
Interesting architecture. This bike station was located between Union Station and the old Post Office building.
Monday
Nov232009
Cathedral Hallway
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 5:22AM | in HDR, National Cathedral, Travel, Washington DC 
The National Cathedral has lots and lots of little chapels and hallways. All of which were lighted beautifully by the abundance of stained glass windows.
Wednesday
Nov182009
Condor Flats and Chevron Gas
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 10:03AM | in Aviation, California, Disney, HDR 
Wonder if the restrooms are clean?
Wednesday
Nov182009
Make Believe California
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 9:58AM | in Bokeh, California, Disney, HDR, Lensbaby 
Dusk at Disney California Adventure park. This entire area is scheduled for demolition next year so I thought I should probably capture it for posterity. I used the Lensbaby Composer for this shot.
Sunday
Nov152009
Holiday Illumination
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 12:17AM | in California, Disney, HDR 
Sleeping Beauty's castle illuminated for the Christmas season.
Thursday
Nov122009
Hail Columbia
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 9:39AM | in HDR, National Air and Space Museum, Space, Spacecraft, Washington DC 
In July of 1969, Mike Collins, Edwin "Buzz Aldrin" and Neil Armstrong flew in this spacecraft and made history as part of the first manned space mission to land on another heavenly body.
This is the Apollo 11 Command Module which re-entered the earth's atmosphere at greater than 25,000 miles per hour and you can clearly see by it's burned and charred skin that it must have been a pure "E" ticket ride.
This photo was taken from the second floor of the National Air and Space Museum. Again they don't allow tripods so I used my trusty Gorillapod to steady my camera.
