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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Coastal Fence

Coastal Fence This is an older photo that I never worked on. I was going through some old work this afternoon and found this one. All day I’ve been editing some wedding shots and needed a break. I think I skipped this one the first time through because of the sky. I don’t really like…

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If I Could Fly

If I Could Fly This is Adam. I asked him and his siblings to just sort of sit around and do stuff so I could get some people pictures. I didn’t have anyone to shot, and I had the itch for Saturday. So, they were around and willing. How nice is that?

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Surfer

Surfer This is another photo from Zuma Beach yesterday. I think Zuma is one of my favorite just hang out beaches. It’s not my favorite photographically, but who’s complaining? Not too much going on with this image, a few spots removed, a change to B&W, and then a bit of detail enhancing. It was a…

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Seven

Seven Went down to Zuma Beach today. Just a short drive from my house. I had to get out to take a few pictures and also wanted to try to get a few raw images for a workshop in a few weeks. This is an HDR from 3 images. I love living were we do….

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Emily

Emily This is my daughter in law Emily. Pretty simply picture, actually taken in my driveway. I was just fooling around with a few ways to play with black and white in this one. End the end I like the look, even if I’m just luke warm on the picture. I do like her expression…

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Lesson 1: Focus, Frame, Fire

First a little background.  I get asked all the time for help or ideas or advice on all things photography.  I’ve been “a photographer” for a long, long time now, and I guess that is normal.  People many times assume that they can not take good photos because they don’t have a camera as good…

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Brrrrrr . . . . .

I’m sitting here in my SoCal home where today it was 76 and blue sky.  I’m working on some photo’s from Whitney and Troy’s wedding.  That was the coldest day I’ve experienced in at least 7 or 8 years.  They were great and they were fun. We had a good time in the snow. Much…

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Nightfall at the Beach

01-09-2010 I haven’t get off to a great start at daily pictures as you can tell. But tomorrow is a Monday, and all diets and project begin on Monday’s don’t they??

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Fun Portraits of Logan

I haven’t had a chance to blog this, but a few weeks ago I had the chance to photography cute Logan and his parents.  I have known them for a  long time so I was honored to be asked.  We went to the Gardens of the World in Thousand Oaks, CA. Great place and they…

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Winter Tree

Winter Tree (01-04-2010) I\’ve been fascinated with bear winter trees lately. The structure is amazing to look at. You can see a few more on my iPhone a day site.

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Winter Boots

2011.01.01 Welcome to 2011. No promises of a picture a day this year, but I’m going to try. The saying goes something like you get good at something after 10,000 hours of practice. That leaves me a lot of work to do to get good at this stuff. I was just in Utah for a…

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