Pretty – The Next Generation
I’ve started doing research into cameras – finally going to upgrade the ol’ Kodak. It’s well-past time, really, but I like to get my money’s worth. How did I do? Well, the camera was a $150 Black Friday special at Wal-Mart. Add in anything I’ve spent on a tripod, battery charger, memory cards, and that [...]
San Diego Trip – See how happy the sun makes them?
Still fleshing out my notes from the trip, but since I know I can’t add anything to flower pictures other than “umm, here’s a purple one I liked”, I’m going to throw a pile of them at you to distract you for a little while. Like a chaff cloud of pretty. These all come from [...]
Bloomin’ Pretty
On Saturday I paid a visit, in perfect weather, to Descanso Gardens up in La Cañada Flintridge, in the foothills of the Angeles National Forest. The Gardens were developed by a Los Angeles newspaper magnate in the 30’s and 40’s and are at their most gorgeous in the Spring. Photographers and art students are almost [...]
Mini-Tripod: My faithful friend
I had a spur-of-the-moment idea that informed most of my picture-taking in San Francisco, so there are very few straight-up scenery photos for me to share. While I put the series I’ve got in mind together, though, here’s one standalone that I’m pretty proud of. 1 Mini-Tripod + 8 seconds’ exposure time produces this abstract [...]
Still Learning on the Jorb
Behind the cut you will find, taken on Saturday, my first-ever Multi-shot Panorama; which proves that: 1) Silver Lake is chock full of The Pretty 2) I am nowhere near good enough in Photoshop to blend out places where the sky failed to merge seamlessly. Torture your browser window behind the jump: