Category: Photography (mine)

A local photography group has a May assignment to photograph “Spring Flowers”, so I headed up to Huntington Library and Gardens to make some flower photographs. They were also doing a Shakespeare in the Garden type of thing, along with all of their other attractions, so I made some photos of all of that as…

Continuing in my ongoing attempts to make a decent photograph of the moon, I headed up to the Griffith Observatory with my camera. I don’t think I’m there yet. These aren’t the moon pictures I’m looking for, but they are getting a little bit closer. There are a few OK ones of downtown Los Angeles…

On Saturday, I drove up to the Hollywood Animals Exotic Animal Training School to check out one of their wild animal seminars. There seemed to be quite a lot of waiting around while they shuffled in one animal or another, but it was still pretty interesting. And, since you could get right up on top…

Tonight was the full moon, and I headed up to Joshua Tree with the intent of photographing it. Things started out a little bad. Then, they got kind of nice, but boy did they ever end on a massive downer that involved a broken car window and no good pictures of the moon at all.…

I decided that I wanted to make a picture of the full moon (which actually rises tomorrow). However, I wanted to practice on the nearly full moon tonight, so I headed up to Point Dume Beach in Malibu. That’s a really cool beach with all kinds of tidal pools and the interesting rock formations that…

My parents were in town in preparation for boarding a cruise ship. We spent the afternoon exploring San Pedro’s Ports of Call and touring the Queen Mary in Long Beach and of course taking pictures of the whole visit.

Work sent me on a 3-day cruise down to Ensenada. I’m not really a “cruise person”, but it was fun and a change of scenery. I know it’s cliche, but I’m probably a good five pounds heavier now. I’m hoping that most of that is just photo weight.

It was supposed to rain today, but it turned out to be a beautiful day. I headed down to the El Dorado Nature Center to take a few photos and enjoy the day.

I drove up to just north of Glendale to the San Gabriel mountains to do a very lovely hike to Switzer Falls. My legs are a bit shot, and my toes hurt, but it was still a very nice hike. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the lens I thought I had on my camera. I just…

I went to the Getty Villa on Saturday. I took some photos while I was there.