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Thursday, March 6, 2008
Queen of the missions in HDR VR
Ok, still taking a while to get these images together this way. But
after taking all the time to build the VR interface I could hardly
wait to use it again.
I got the opportunity today when the clouds started to get interesting.
We dropped everything to try to get some nice images.
Turned out to be a busy afternoon and an amazing sunset.
This is the first of several nice images that will come out of the
adventure around town today.
The clouds look a little ominous, but they were fast moving and quite beautiful.
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Moonlit Tree
This evening I went out to take some test shots
for my current project. The moon was doing some
beautiful things with the clouds so it got
me a little sidetracked. But that is always
lots of fun too.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
My intent was to get some nice sunset shots of this beautiful
church in Montecito. I was a little late, but it was still
a nice night.
If you tilt your head to the left and
use your imagination a little you can make out
half of the constellation Orion rising from behind the
church.
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Friday, January 4, 2008
Mission Storm
Click on the main image for a bigger version
Another attempt to get to the Nativity Scene at the mission a
couple of weeks ago, and still no animals. Probably
a good thing for them, it was raining like crazy.
But I do so hate to come home empty handed!
And, I still have not had a chance to develop
the film from this evening. This was from my
digital camera, but four feet wide just might not be big enough. :-D
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Santa Barbara Hills
Happy New Year!
It's been a busy holiday season. This
was from one of my many trips by the Mission
to see if the animals were in
the nativity scene yet.
I had no luck there before things got too busy, but
as long as I was out with my camera...
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Mission Christmas Trees
Merry Christmas!
Some of the Christmas decorations at the Mission Santa Barbara.
They don't usually do a lot in a flashy way, but I like the
Christmas trees. They put them up really early too so
you have lots of time to enjoy them!
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
CCSB in the Setting Sun
As I mentioned yesterday I was out taking some test
shots for a new project. The intention was to check the
lighting and get an idea what equipment I would need.
But as the sky got prettier I decided to take a shot
at getting some images to combine into a high dynamic
range image. Normally, not a difficult task. But
in this case I only had a monopod so that made
keeping the camera perfectly still between shots
a bit of a challenge. I might not use it for a poster
size image but I'm pretty happy with the results.
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Sunset at 1525 State
When the evening sun does beautiful things like this I find myself
wishing I could drop everything and take pictures.
Today I had a busy afternoon of meetings and appointments,
fortunately one of them was with a new client so I just
happened to have my camera handy. I think the wispy
pink clouds really add a lot! Not to mention the
cool bus tail lights that came through at just the right time.
This is a combination of five images in what is called a High Dynamic Range Image, mostly
used in this case to pick
out the details in the bright spots. One of the interesting things
about one of those bright spots is the color of the sign.
That lovely green is the way film (or in this case a digital sensor)
sees fluorescent lights. As they ummm... "encourage" us in California
to use the CFLs my evening shots are going to get a lot
greener, supposedly in more ways than one.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
East Beach Woodcut - No Lifeguard On Duty
I went out this evening to get some evening shots of the city.
I was not sure exactly what I was looking for, but when I
drove by East Beach I saw it. :-D
This scene reminds me of a woodcut technique where the black
silhouette is printed over a gradient background.
The sky was cloudless, the dark outline at the left on the
horizon is Santa Cruz Island part of Channel Islands National Park.
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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Archway Palms
I still have not had a chance to get my
film developed from my adventures last week.
(Been a busy week with a sick hound dog.) But
this was one of my test shots from my digital camera.
For the next couple of weeks the christmas decorations
will be at their peak so I'm going to try to get
as much time behind my camera as possible.
So, with a little luck, I should have some nice new images
under the tree for Christmas. That is if the hound
has not managed to knock the tree over by then.
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Sunday, December 2, 2007
Santa Barbara Courthouse Palms
Another angle on the Santa Barbara Courthouse.
The early morning light casts some
beautiful shadows.
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
Courthouse Glow
Sometimes its nice to take a closer look
at something beautiful. This is a gateway
into the Santa Barbara Courthouse. The
building as a whole is amazing, but as
I am so fond of pointing out I really like
the details. There is some incredible
craftsmanship there that I don't think
you would find very easily today. Perhaps
the only thing that will make me stop
sounding like my grandfather now (WHYYYY, IN MY DAY... !) is
to point out that it was probably pretty
rare to EVER find this kind of creativity!
(Unless of course, it was actually one of my perfectionist
German grandfathers doing it! :-D At least I come
by it honestly!)
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Saturday, July 14, 2007
Beak Cleaning
Hummers seem to like to clean their beaks
after they eat. For that matter, my finch
seems to like to do that too.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
Bonsai Roots
I love the roots on this Bonsai tree. It is the same one from a
few days ago.
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Friday, May 18, 2007
Liquidamber Bonsai Tree
This is a close up of one of our latest plants.
It is a small cascading bonsai tree. Unfortunately
the wires were a little tight, so I had to loosen them
but not before I got a few cool shots!
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Fisheye Sunset at Savoy
I have been preparing more photos from an old shoot for
one of my favorite clients. This is a beautiful
restaurant on Figueroa Street in Santa Barbara.
It is run by a really nice couple who
grew up around here. With all of the huge corporations
setting their sights on Santa Barbara in recent years
it is really nice to see a good local business thrive!
They have really nice photos on the walls too! :-D
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Monday, February 19, 2007
Winter Sunset
A couple of days ago The Hound
decided it was time for me to take a break from my computer
right around sunset. I think she can sniff out a good photo
opportunity.
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Friday, February 16, 2007
Evening Magnolia
One day recently we went to a nursery to look around for
more interesting things for our back yard.
Unfortunately, we got to the there close to closing time.
(a fact which several employees pointed out repeatedly.)
We did have time to find this beauty getting ready to bloom.
Unfortunately it was a little too
big to fit in the trunk of the car. (it was a little too big
for our little back yard too!) But I was happy, I had my camera
and the sun was doing beautiful things.
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Christmas Tree
Here is another shot of our Christmas tree in the middle of our
dining room table. Again, I love the shadows!
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Monday, December 18, 2006
Quilling Snow Man
This is our Christmas tree this year. The holidays have been a little crazy this year
so our decorating has been on a rather small scale. This is a little juniper
bonsai tree that is on our dining room table. We had some small ornaments and
the snowman from last year and it all seemed to go together. I particularly
like the snowman's shadow.
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Saturday, October 21, 2006
Californian Forest
This is the image in the seagull's glasses from
yesterday's photo of the day.
Now before you go sending me hate mail, this is supposed to be FUNNY!
The back of the card has information about our beautiful redwood forests...
"Californian Forest - Of course, Californian forests also include
some of the tallest trees in the world at Redwood National and State Parks.
These trees can grow to over 300 feet tall and reach ages in excess of 2,000
years. Only about 4% of the Redwoods remain since logging became an industry
in California in the mid 1800s. Fortunately, most of the remaining old growth
Redwoods are protected in state parks or in public land reserves."
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Sunday, August 27, 2006
Butterfly Beach Sunset
It was a nice sunset this evening.
No clouds, but still a nice glow in the sky.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Chinese Toon Trees
This is a beautiful pink tree at Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens, in Santa Barbara.
There was no name on it like most of the plants in the gardens,
and every time we go lately we see people trying to figure out what it is.
Thanks to the Internet we were able to track it down.
Apparently the bright pink foliage is a springtime thing. If you look closely
at the plants you can see them starting to fade to green at places.
This plant is actually used as a vegetable and in traditional Chinese medicine.
'Course that would not be the woody parts. They use them as young shoots, or even
smaller, like bean sprouts.
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
Ready for Spring!
Tomorrow is the first day of spring,
doesn't feel like it right now (10:10 pm)
but this was the scene just down the street
this afternoon.
These trees are beautiful and in full bloom.
They are some kind of Flowering Plum, not 100%
sure which kind. There seem to be a lot of them!
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Monday, December 26, 2005
Birthday Sunset
This one was posted a little late.
But, it is a belated birthday
present for my best friend who is now (January 16th)
my wife. Yesterday, she asked me what picture she got for her day.
And, due to some major wedding preparations
at that time I was getting behind on the photo of the day
so she got to choose her own.
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