Category: Photography (mine)

I took a drive up to Santa Barbara to check out their Monarch Butterfly Preserve. It’s kind of an interesting place. There were a lot of butterflies, but I was actually expecting more for some reason. More variety and just more butterflies flying around. It was nice though, and certainly worth checking out. There was…

I’ve been meaning to get back downtown with my camera for a while now. Today, I finally went. I’m not exactly thrilled with these photos. They don’t really capture the flavor of everything I saw today. Most of the really interesting things were inside, and there wasn’t enough light, or there was too much backlight…

Westchester does this small-town type of parade on the 4th. I went, I celebrated, I took a bunch of parade pictures.

Since I still had some time off, I checked on visiting the Getty Villa. It just reopened, so you have to get reservations to visit. The rest of the month was full, but I got lucky and was able to get in yesterday. I think I like the Villa even better than the new Getty…

I had some time off from work, so I took a quick trip North to California’s Central Coast Area (Morro Bay, Cayucos, Hearst Castle, Cambria, Big Sur, Carmel-By-the-Sea, and Monterey) (photos). Then, I cut over to Yosemite National Park (photos). It was a nice and relaxing trip. I hadn’t really been to either part of…

I took a short trip down to Cancun, Mexico. I’d never been before. It was fun. I had hoped to be able to do some SCUBA diving, but more than that, I wanted to take some interesting photos. I forgot my camera battery and memory card one day though, and the trip was so short…

My parents were in Riverside, so I drove out to see them. There are a few photos here.

I heard about a sand sculpture contest they were having down in Long Beach, so I drove down there to check it out. I was only out there for like an hour, but I got amazingly burnt. It turns out there is no atmosphere over Long Beach. The unfiltered solar radiation just drills down at…

Today (or I guess actually yesterday), Venice Beach was having a street party to celebrate their centennial or something like that. Street vendors, bands, costumes, and just more craziness to add to the carnival that is Venice beach. I did take my camera, and I did get a few photos, but not as many as…

I drove up to Topanga to hike through Hondo Canyon. It’s beautiful, but the trail wasn’t as well maintained as I would have preferred. There was a lot of tall grass growing over the trail so I couldn’t always see where I was stepping. As a result, I kept feeling like I was going to…