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.

In other news, the Host is out on blu-ray today. And I have been at a new job for the past few months. Its a new company being started by Robert Zemekis, of Forrest Gump and Back to the Future Fame. Its a startup company being funded by Disney. It should be interesting.

I shot this a couple of years ago, while visiting the North Shore in Minnesota. I carried the frame around with me for a while trying to frame things. I finally settled on this little rocky valley that I had been waiting to see if a stream would form in. I thought the sharp cornered, very straight frame was an interesting contrast to the wave beaten rocks and curvy stream.

They are sending me to Korea in about a month for I think about three weeks (maybe less). It will be my first time out of North America. I will let you all know how it goes. I got a spiffy new lens that I am hoping to get shots with over there.

Its funny these days I look at almost everything as a chance to take interesting photos. Danger? who cares... it will make an awesome shot! : )

A few weekends ago my friend Leo came to visit and we went across the Golden Gate Bridge. The next day, Leo, Nathan, Kerrie, Ocala and I explored the area around there. Fort Point was really interesting. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera, I know I know... you're shocked. : )

I find it interesting that so much of my life revolves around light. This site is full of pictures capturing it. My job at work is to create stories and images out of little squares of colored light.

One of my photography teachers, when I was in school, taught the science behind light as part of his courses. He was a big inspiration to me, more for his passion for it than anything else. He really made you understand the complex nature and harmony that enters your lens.

Ansel Adams used his experience in music in working on his photographs. He saw scales in his pictures, as in his music. It is hard not to think of that when I am at work adjusting colors to be just right. People often say that images aren't as powerful as music... but I think when you tune them, those frequencies of light, they sing.

I went camping over the memorial day weekend. We went to the Salton Sea. Its evidently California's largest lake. It is also one of the smelliest.

I remember I went on that weekend getaway as a way to tell myself to concentrate on the here and now rather than always reflecting on the past. Ironically, I often find myself reflecting back on that trip.

I thought this series deserved to be up for a week and a half.

And in the mean time, I posted these pics I took along the north shore a few years back during a wonderful fog filled day.

I am not sure if I will be posting. I will if I get a chance, but if I don't... have a good week and a half all.

I am heading off on vacation at last! I am off to beautiful Minnesota for the weekend and holiday and then back to go on a road-trip around California.

A picture I took years ago on a memorable day traveling along the North Shore of Minnesota. We arrived in Grand Marais just at sunset during a heavy fog. Along the shore people often set up the rocks in this manner.

This is a shot early one morning during siggraph 2003 (a computer graphics conference) from the 24th floor of a hotel near the San Diego Convention Center.

Here are more photos of my vacation trip to Michigan. This is a series of the Bocce Ball Tournament we played on the beach. Looking back now, I wish I had taken notes so I could have given more of a play by play. As it is I remember quite a bit. I hope you enjoy them.

Of the Michigan vacation there is still more to come. I will be finished with the shots of the fireworks fairly soon and will post them. After that there is still shots of the dune jumping and then a shots from all during the trip. Stay tuned. :)

This is also a test of my new way of posting images and tiles. I wrote php scripts that should make it a lot easier to get tile indexes like this one up. Now all I have to do is make the images, tile swatches, and write some text... rather than coding every html page and link. Makes things a lot easier.

"Chronologically this is one of the last images I took that day. It was long after the bocce ball tournament was over. I wanted to get a good introduction image so I threw all the balls out on the sand and shot until I got something I was happy with."