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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Hot Espresso
Ahhh more food! (or more specifically drink)
It was all I could do to finish this before
I go get some coffee myself! (Another of the
wonderful things my wife introduced
me to.)
Well, these were two of the
first experimentations with this style for
a series of ads and a website. Generally,
I'm pretty happy with it. It's nice to be
the designer as well as the photographer.
It helps get the exact image you're looking for.
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Monday, October 22, 2007
Garlic Reflections
In addition to my local Santa Barbara images site I
am in the process of doing some self promotion
work for my commercial food & restaurant photography.
I've always loved photography and I REALLY love
food, so I guess it was only a matter of time
'til I made the connection!
Ohhh I just LOVE Garlic!!
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Friday, October 19, 2007
Harbor Earth Shadow
I really love this shot and all the others I took along with it.
It was a great evening right after a Photography show
walking with my dad at the Santa Barbara harbor.
Aside from the beauty of the scene and the great memories it brings
back (as most of my photos do for me), I like the science
in this shot. If you poke around the photo of the day
it's not hard to notice
other
evidence of
the left side of my brain creeping into my photography.
In this case, the dark blue near the horizon that
slopes upward to the left is what intrigues me.
It is actually the shadow of the Earth. As the sun was
slipping further below the horizon behind me
on my right side, it still lit the atmosphere above me.
It is easiest to see this effect looking out over the
ocean so there are no hills or even buildings and trees to block it.
BTW, I finally got back to the photo of the day
thanks to a really nice post
the other day from Mary Ann. Always wonderful to
know people are enjoying my creativity.
One of the many things I was doing in my absence
was working on a new gallery site of my Santa Barbara
photos... www.ImagesOfSantaBarbara.com.
Thanks again Mary Ann!
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Habanero Reflection
I noticed this pepper as I was sitting at the dining room table
this morning with my wife and bird.
(His cage is in the corner of the dining room. He likes
to be right in the middle of the action.)
We have a huge pile of peppers and tomatoes
on the table from our plants in the back yard.
My wife has been pointing out the cool ones to me for a
couple of weeks, and I finally couldn't wait any longer
it was time for a photo shoot!
About three hours later this was one of my favorite shots.
But I can't take all the credit, I have a great Art
Director & food stylist! The cool
black tray was my wife's idea.
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
Mesa Sunset
There are few places in Santa Barbara where you can
watch the sun set over the ocean. Most of the beaches
face south. But if you look around you can find a few
spots with a nice view.
We have to enjoy the sunsets while they last, this
is about the time of year the show is over for about
nine months. During the spring and summer there's not
usually enough clouds to make a spectacle like this.
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Friday, February 17, 2006
Santa Barbara Mission Twilight
This was a long exposure. The exposure
time made the reflection much more interesting.
it gave the effect of the sharpness near the bottom of the
image getting blurry near the top where the water
was falling from the top of the fountain.
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Monday, July 11, 2005
Nighttime Mission
The cool thing about this long exposure
is that fact that it made the surface of the water look
like glass. If you look closely you can see that there
are blurry areas near the center of the fountain where the
water was running down. But most of the waves that moved
slowly across the surface disappeared.
I thought the motion of the ripples across the water would
blur a larger part of the reflection but sometimes you get
a pleasant surprise.
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Sunday, April 17, 2005
Nighttime at the Mission
I almost lost this image. It was on a roll of film
in a camera that I had not used in a few weeks.
Assuming it was empty I opened the back of the camera.
Luckily the best shots seemed to be early on the roll
and deep enough in the camera to not be affected.
This was a long exposure from the edge of the fountain.
the blurry area in the water is the affect of the water on
the surface over the length of the exposure.
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Thursday, April 7, 2005
Sunset Reflection
This was taken from East Beach in Santa Barbara.
The strings of lights are Christmas decorations on Stearns Wharf.
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Sunday, January 2, 2005
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