Well I am back in the bay area. Its good to be back in California although I will always love portland. I took a job again at Image Movers Digital. Its a bit of a course correction for me, I found myself to far on the development side of things and wanted to make sure I was involved in the art side as well. I am happiest being able to do both technical and artistic work.

This photo is another from my vacation on the oregon coast. It is using a tilt and shift lens, but more in the manner that the lense is intended rather than to get the miniature effect. I was able to keep the f-stop around 2 and yet get the large rock in the distance and the close up wall with holes in focus. Its a really nice lens. It doesn't have auto focus and in tilting and shifting it makes the in camera light meter inaccurate. I actually like both of those aspects as it forces me to be a bit more traditional about how I shoot. You definitely lose something letting the computer do all the thinking for you.

The holes in the foreground rock were birds nests, thought there were no occupants.