State & Lake

For the past couple of nights I have been mesmerized with images coming from the Altadena weather cam.  The images are generated from the site www.westphalfamily.com/weather.html where the gentleman there has mounted an Olympus C-5050Z on the roof of his home and pointed the camera at the mountains above Lake Avenue here in Altadena.

While downtown [...]

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had such a good day yesterday and an equally wonderful dinner with friends I returned home with an abundance of energy and ideas.
First, I finally finished looking at all of the images from my day trip to Big Bear — not many and I’ll explain later — Huntington Botanical Gardens and since I still had [...]

The other day I noted a message from one of my Twitter Friends about a site featuring photos from the iPhone.  The message was:
and that got my attention fast.  To read someone is not happy with their N82 because of what an iPhone can do, it got my attention.
I checked out the above-mentioned site http://www.justwhatisee.com [...]

Today, while driving to Castaic, I kept hearing the words of a song by Lou Reed.  The name of the song is “What’s Good” and trust me, it’s kind of weird with even weirder words.  I believe it comes from an album he did on death and dying and maybe that’s why it was on [...]

Spent the day in the mountains earlier then dropped down to Castaic Lake in the afternoon. I have always wanted to come here but thought it farther than it is. It’s actually not that far from me. Trust, I will return. What a beautiful, serene and exqusite place. Just what [...]

Renovance.tv is offering a workshop on the “Power of Light” with famed master photographer Claudio Basso.  I love Basso’s images, his fashion work and his website which is fabulous.  The intense two-day workshop promises to help you “replicate for your own clients the astonishing lighting setups that grace the the fashion, beauty and portraiture [...]

Chase Jarvis takes the Nikon D90 for a spin with his staff.  A lot of this video is from the D90 and it not only records video at 720, it also records sound and you can control the depth-of-field.  Sweet.
The video looks a little grainy but that could be due to YouTube’s dumbing down of [...]

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One of my favorite photo sites on the web is The Luminous Landscape and since the Nikon D90 will soon hit the streets with the ability to shoot high resolution stills and video, The Luminous Landscape is offering a video primer for still photographers.
Just as I was a bit hesitant [...]

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As noted in a prior post on the Nikon D90, I am looking to purchase a new camera.  I made a decision a couple of years ago to not purchase another camera until one comes along that really strikes my fancy.  Two cameras are doing this for me now and they are the [...]

You would think, in this day and time, someone would understand the necessity to dot all “i”s and cross all “t”s before letting anything drift into the public ether like the above photo.  You would think, hopefully, someone might see the implications of the photo and would look for ways to make the photo tell [...]

PITTS — Bob Cormack with his Pitts Special Aerobatic Biplane
This has been a week of nostalgia.  Earlier in the week I was reminded of my high school graduation when my mother handed me a box instead of flowers.  In the box were keys to my very first car, a 1972 Camaro.  That evening I believe [...]