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Archive for September, 2009

LA Sunset & Traffic

Two things that you see a lot of in Los Angeles: traffic, and nice sunsets. Here’s a snapshot I took while stuck in traffic, showing both. Hate the traffic, love the sunsets. Click for full size.

Fine Art B&W Photography

There is some beautiful fine art B&W photography at this site. Lots of strong images. I can do without that music though…

Busy Busy Busy

No time for much of anything except work… ugh.

Black & White Techniques

There are a million ways to convert digital color images to black and white. I’ve been playing around with various techniques, and this book has been a wonderful resource. It’s fairly advanced and it assumes that you already know your way around various tools in Photoshop such as histograms, layers, masks, curves, levels etc. If [...]

Quotes

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
Henri [...]

Art Wolfe

One of my all time favorite travel photographers is Art Wolfe. If you want to see some amazing images, check out his website. Tons of great stuff…

Browsing the web…

In my never-ending quest to discover new visual gems, I came across a Hong-Kong based photographer’s site with lots of interesting images. I really love the black and white portraits. So many gorgeous images on his site…

Dreamy Ocean

Can’t believe the Labor Day weekend is over already… didn’t feel like 3 days at all. Back to the grind tomorrow… Some very busy weeks ahead.
Hmmm I love going through old pictures… never know what you’re going to find. Lots of beautiful memories… Here’s one that has a bit of an impressionistic touch… I’m [...]

Inferno

As in most years, wildfires are raging in southern California. It’s tragic and depressing… People dying, destruction & personal tragedies everywhere. A few years back, I had to help friends evacuate their house in the middle of the night with fire all around them. It was insane, and hard to describe in words… “apocalyptic” [...]