Constant Musings

I never get tired of sunsets :) I’ll be posting more Bali pics soon, gotta sort through the hundreds I took….

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from Bali. What an amazingly beautiful place… Lots of catching up to do now, but will post some pics soon!

She looks weary…

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So it’s officially 2010 now. Can’t believe another decade is over… Time to think about my New Year’s resolutions.

Shot this picture of the Golden Gate bridge on a foggy, drizzly San Francisco evening – New Year’s Day 2010.

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Bridge to Nowhere

Just got back from Germany where I spent a beautiful white Christmas. Tonight I’ll be celebrating New Year’s with a bunch of good friends, can’t wait! I’ve got a backlog of pictures from both my Guatemala and Germany trips that I haven’t even archived yet, but maybe I’ll get to it next week. In the meantime, here’s another snapshot taken at a restaurant in Antigua, Guatemala. Gotta love the colors…

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Flower - Antigua, Guatemala

Been real busy with work and getting ready for the holidays, so I haven’t spent much time online recently… still have a bunch of pics from my Guatemala trip that I plan to post shortly though.

I shot this somewhere around Lake Amatitlan in Guatemala. I just love how the many volcanoes add to the country’s natural beauty…

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Lake Amatitlan

I spent last week in Guatemala, which is a paradise for photographers (that is, of course, if you disregard the fact that crime is completely out of control and you have to be really careful not to get robbed/stabbed/shot because someone wants your camera).

To me, Guatemala has always been the country of colors. Markets, flowers, trees, fruits, people, clothes… it’s a feast for the eyes. Here’s one shot of many I took. Click for full size.

Colors

Point Loma in San Diego is located on a beautiful peninsula with a gorgeous view of the Pacific Ocean and San Diego. Here’s a picture I took of the famous lighthouse that has been around since 1854.

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Point Loma Lighthouse, San Diego

Had a fun weekend partying with friends… and taking pictures of course. Here’s one of my favorite shots from the weekend – San Diego’s skyline as seen from Coronado Island.

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San Diego

The best camera is the one you have with you…
Took this snapshot while going 80mph on the freeway. The colors and shapes were just spectacular!

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California Sunset

… in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the rivers and waterfalls in Yosemite are at their most impressive. Just like in this picture I took a few years back. This was shot on film & scanned.

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Yosemite

I’m playing around with a new Photoshop plug-in and I’m having tons of fun with it. Topaz Labs’ Topaz Adjust can turn even the blandest pictures into something fun and powerful. I’m just getting started with it but already I’m blown away by the possibilities… Since I have close to 10,000 images on my hard drive, there’s lots of experimenting to be done :)

Here’s a shot of the Taj Mahal I took about three years ago… running it through Topaz Adjust really makes the colors pop. And I actually toned the effect down, you can easily create really crazy looking stuff!

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Taj Mahal (Agra, India)

This was taken at a nightclub in Cologne. Love the abstract quality of the image… looks almost surreal, a bit like a painting. Click on the picture for a larger view.

Nightlife Cologne

Here are a few pictures I took in and around Cologne Cathedral last week… The image quality is ok but not great, since all I had with me was my 4-year old Canon Powershot SD450 (I didn’t feel like lugging my DSLR with me) The SD450 clearly shows its age…

I do love that little camera though because it is about as small as can be… you can literally take it everywhere, and as they say, the best camera is the one that’s with you!

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