Landscape with a lot of trees and interesting mountains in the background

Some place on Interstate 5 traveling from Northern California...somewhere near Mount Shasta.

Crater Lake

Taken during my vacation this summer.

Old Boat Hook

This was taken in Santa Cruz...This looked like a great Black & White candidate!

Some Photos from San Jose / Santa Cruz Trip

My wife and I had a nice trip to San Jose where we visited the Winchester Mystery House. The house is very cool, but they wouldn't let us take any pictures inside the house, and many of the rooms had no furniture. What they did have, was not original. A bit of a disappointment, especially at the price of $30 / person. Still, the history was interesting. I most likely will take another tour at the price, and certainly not if I can't take pictures.

 

Stained Glass Window actually inside the men's bathroom if you can believe that! LOL

Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk

 

From the Reno National Auto Museum

When shooting at car shows, it's often hard to get the entire car in the shot without people in the photo or the ropes and signs by each car. So, I like to take photos with different angles and crops to keep all that stuff out of the shot but still make an interesting photo.

Ghosts in Virginia City Nevada?

Kathy and I want to visit Virginia City, Nevada near Reno. There are supposed to be lot's of ghosts there. Not sure about that, but we thought it would be cool to go see :)

Apparently, Ghost Trackers has been there to investigate them. We took several pictures there too. They talk about Orbs, just little circles of light in photos that they think are ghosts. I think the orbs are just lens flare from lights and camera flash. 

Well, I may have found my own ghost and it's not a little circle of light! I have some pictures here, I'll let you decide for yourself. Looks like a man in a white suit with a tie poking his head out through the wall. There was no one back there when I took this.

Photos from Virginia City Trip

This is on the way to Virginia City near Reno Nevada. I liked the color of the rocks and how they looked against the background.

Mockup of a blacksmith Shop

From the Reno National Auto Museum. Closeup of a wheel.

From the Reno National Auto Museum. Taking a picture of myself and my wife behind me in the reflection on the old headlight on one of the old classic cars.

Photos of the Day 5/2/2011 - Water Drops

I've always wanted to try this, just never got around to it. So, finally I setup everything I needed on my kitchen table (bowl of water, lights, a bag full of water with a pin hole in it dripping water in a consistent flow of drops and of course my camera).  I set the camera up and put it in continuous shooting mode (rapid fire or machine gun mode as I like to call it). With the camera on a tripod, set and focused on the area where the drops were falling, I just started shooting for a while and reviewed what I have. I changed camera settings a few times and did it again and then looked for my favorite shots!

Winter Trail

My new photo blog posting plan and some Pet Photos from last night.

Origitally, I wanted to post a photo every day...something I took that day...but with day to day responsiblities, I've just been too busy. And I don't want to just post any old image. So instead, I'm going to post images here that I either setup to take or saw something I liked that I was able to capture because I was at the right place or the right time. I may even post photos I took in the past that maybe I decided to put some work into and post here. I probably won't post every day, probably more like 1 or 2 times a week. Maybe more if I find something interesting to post.

Anyway, Here are a few pet photos I took last night. I setup a mini photo studio with background and lights on the kitchen table :)

This is Rock Star. Named because of his wild hair!

This is Daisy

This is Macy, the Evil Hamster, She Bites without warning!!!

I wonder if macy is getting ready to pounce on a juicy finger?

Saturday Photo of the Day

Went out shooting this morning, been thinking about this idea for a while as I drive past this area every day. I really like this picture!

Here's another from the same location. Just down the street from my house.

And One More!

Friday Photo of the Day

Shot with iPhone. A serving of fruit and vitamin c!

Saturday (1/29/2011)

Been busy and have not posted anything in about a month with all the Holiday and Post Holiday Madness. Anyway, Got a new camera (a Canon 5D Mark II) and went out to Old Sacramento and then the State Capitol Building and did a lot of photo shooting! Here's a flower from the Capitol Building.

Friday Photo of the Day (12/31/2010)