otis

otis in san clemente canyon, san diego 11/25/2011

reflections

on a walk in san clemente canyon in san diego ... experiments with my polarizing filter and eric kim's lightroom presets.

you walked in, just like smoke

san diego weekend

ever since the forth of july and shooting with a super slow shutter speed, i've been really wanting to do more with a slow shutter ... i tried some more stuff over the weekend. sorry to make you struggle through my experimentation with me, but i'm only posting images i like ...

Jack and Jake

this was shot at about 10:00 pm at la jolla shores. almost no light ... shutter at 1/6, f 4, iso6400

it sounds like my external hard drive is dying ... its ticking like a time bomb ... and giving me trouble when i attempt to pull images off of it. i guess this is my heard drive's way of only allowing me to post one picture. i hope this stuff is backed up on the cloud we have ... or that the stuff is retrievable ... anyone know where i can get help?

its been emotional part 2

Some photos from Saturday night ... The Stimy memorial at the Ken.

its been emotional ...

Its been an emotional last few days.


fluf

 Wednesday Night was the Stimy memorial/benefit at the Casbah with Skydiver, Congress of the Cow, Fluf, Creedle, Inch, Sub Society ... It was like a high school reunion even though I didn't go to high school in San Diego. Tons of old friends, great bands all gathered to say goodbye to a great friend. In trying to keep myself from crying through the entire show (and the one on Saturday too) I shot some pictures. My live band photography has always frustrated me. I'm just not very good at it. I feel like I should be, I've been to enough shows in my live, but for some reason, I suck. I am still trying to learn the proper setting for my flash and for shooting bands ... here are a few from Wednesday night that I feel are OK, but not great. (see next blog for Saturday)


fluf






Sub Society w/Matt



Sub Society w/Matt





Sub Society w/Matt



Neb Lodge

I took a few shots at the Nebenkanoozer's (sp?) charity poker tournament. They are not great, but I love the fisheye.

Phono

The Phongraphy show opening was last night. It was cool. A lot of great photos. I bought 3 by Ed Templeton. I've really liked Ed's work for a while now and when he has a solo show his work can be $3000 each. I got 3 images for $20 each at Phongraphy and I'm almost as happy about that as I am about having a picture in the show. The show was PACKED. In fact the Blind Lady staff were concerned about capacity and finally had to start a line outside until some people left. By the time I left, there had to be 150 people in there. It was crowded, which is GREAT. If I remember correctly Josh (curator) said there were 164 images in the show and probably 50+ different contributors Before I left it looked like sales were going pretty well, which is great because I want Josh to get reimbursed for his expenses and I'd like there to be a decent donation made to Doctors Without Borders for Haiti too. I'm curious to see if mine sells but we'll see.


Wall A of the show.


Switching gears - I got a nice email from John Royce (pres, Cal Hts Neighborhood Assoc). He said he was talking to Robert, the owner at Roxanne's, who was looking for vintage photographs from Cal Hts to display in the bar. John said that there are not too many available and wondered if I would be interested in sending Robert some of the stuff I've been shooting around the neighborhood, particularly the pictures of the reconditioned street lamps. I am stoked that Mary Sramek tagged John in some of those pix on facebook or this never would have come about. I've sent some images to Robert ... we'll see. I think i posted a couple of the pix on the last blog entry. Most are from my phone but here's one from the camera:

Carlsbad

Had a long productive day on Saturday. saw friends, shed tears, exercised the dog and took very few pictures but i like a couple I took in an Alley behind Timmy's work (after I edited them and boosted their color a little.

Signing

I don't really have too much to say about these two pictures except I cried as soon as I saw them. They capture a special moment in time for a special friend on a special night surrounded by friends.
(Taken on my iPhone ... I love that thing).



Mona Signing




Weave Signing