Late Afternoon Light-Kalanchoe

Just had to grab this shot at my doorstep.

Mt Baldy In Spring

Shutter Speed

Spent a couple hours at Descanso Gardens today, just working the morning light. This fountain gave me a chance to explore shutter speed options for the play of light on water. The left shot was 1/10th of a second. The right hand image was 1/2000th second. Which do you prefer?

Luck Is Opportunity Met With Preparation

How lucky is it that one gets good double rainbow photograph on St Patrick's Day, and one of the photographers is Irish? Lucky enough to be myself and my wife out to a short road trip to an Orchid show in Santa Barbara on the very day two storms collide over the Santa Monica mountains.

The day offered a intimidating drive up, a good show and then the good luck of finding some rainbows on the way home chasing the intense weather. We'll post more images tomorrow. But now we have the rainbows...

Mountains & Concrete

 

 

A split of color and monochrome.

A Los Angeles Gem

Today was a day to finish a Los Angeles area shoot for a local restaurant. The way the light was today, Disney just shouted for attention.

This time I used a Sigma 17-35 wide zoom lens. It's a rental I used while my Tamron wide angle lens is in for some warranty repair. The camera body was my trusted Canon EOS 7D.

Time Lapse Extract

Today we shot 700+ frames of this sunset near Mt Baldy so we can make a time lapse sequence. The circumstances were a bit challenging we had high winds and cold air. Later as it got dark we tried a long exposure or two.I was going to go for a longer exposure but the winds were making sharp shots impossible.

Standing In The Moonlight

Evolution Of An Abstract

First I saw how the morning light was "lensed' by the moving water. So I took a closer look. And then a macro close look. Finally the bottom two are the images I settled on with some adjustment to the color temperature and contrast. The bottom image used a flash set on second curtain sync. Hence the ghost image to the left.

Twilight Sky

Hummingbird Rivals