Computer geek by day, Photographer when I'm awake.
Using the Radiopopper PX system let me achieve High Speed Sync effortlessly. This image was taken on a clear sky day with the on full power. Camera was set to F4 and 1/1000 at ISO 200. The flash is a bare SB800 hung in the tree holding up the … [Read more...]
While at the lake this weekend we saw a beautiful Great Blue Heron sunning along the bank of the lake. He was pretty willing to pose for a while but then he got tired and decided to fly away. If you haven't seen a Great Blue Heron then … [Read more...]
We had a short break in the weather on Thursday and Friday. The weather was a regular heat wave - in the 40s! I was able to get out and take a little hike and I found this bull thistle and thought it looked like winter...dead and lifeless but … [Read more...]
Today we took a tourist trip of LA. We boarded a tour bus at the front door of our hotel and went on the "Grand LA Tour" where we saw downtown LA, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and a bunch more neighborhoods and cities. Add in a long list of … [Read more...]
We drove over to Malibu for a nice seafood dinner on the beach and caught one more sunset. This trip sure has provided a lot of opportunities to capture some wonderfully colorful sunsets. The pictures are below. There are no plans for tomorrow - … [Read more...]
Mele Kalikimaka - Merry Christmas everyone. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and while we wish we were with you I think you'll understand how this year we're gonna have to pass :) this year! Have a wonderful Christmas day and stay … [Read more...]
The road to Hana is a bit of legend around here. The locals all talk about how "adventurous" the drive is to Hana. There are over 600 curves and more than 50 one lane bridges and most the the drive is along a drop off into the ocean. Yeah, it's … [Read more...]
Wow! What a view! 10,000 feet above sea level and we can see the sea from here! We arrive on the summit at 6:00. 45 minutes later the sun would come up and we'd see the why the call it Haleakala - "The house of the sun". The temp is … [Read more...]
Most of the time I take pictures of stuff that interests me. But everything I read says have a subject in mind before you pick up the camera. That makes sense but sometimes it is harder than you might think to figure out what you want to take a … [Read more...]
Now I know what it feels like to be Tina Turner. Why - because we just got a smack down from Ike. Hurricane Ike, that is. That big blowhard of a storm that started off the coast of Africa, spun across the Atlantic, wiped out a few … [Read more...]
