Mine
Celebrating my birthday early this year, and everyone gets their choice of cake. Me first... And this is what happens when you spend too long taking pictures of the food rather than eating it.
Find Waldo – The Industrial Version
Another image from the Zeppelin trip. Can you find a huge face? A sofa? A dozen (or more) washing machines? How about a child's merry-go-round? A boat? How about two boats? A fire hydrant? Click through to the full size image - you'll need it.
Airship Ventures – Zeppelin
I had the pleasure yesterday of flying in the Airship Eureka – one of the few commercially flown Zeppelins in the world. The trip was organized by Steve Jurvetson for Airship Ventures to help set a course for a geeks air-tour of Silicon Valley. Stanford, Seen Through The Window Bon Voyage – Photo by Steve [...]
Makers Faire, San Mateo
Last weekend was the Makers Faire - a crazy two day confab of DIYers, Steampunks, rocketeers, and electro-mechanics. I was only able to attend for half day and was so overwhelmed that I didn't shoot much. Camera Obscura This is inside a beautiful camera obscura built by Chris de Monterey. The image is projected via [...]
Carnaval
I spent the morning last Sunday with the Palo Alto Camera Club shooting the San Francisco Carnaval. We got up there at 8:30am, well before the parade started, and mingled around the staging area. It was much more interesting watching people prepare for the parade that watching them walk down the street. It was just [...]
I can't wait 2 get home & read
Tagging tags. In the bathroom of a Barne's & Noble Books in Burbank, CA.
Borrow Lenses
Actually borrowlenses.com. This great camera equipment rental company came by the Palo Alto Camera Club meeting last week for a few hours to let us play will all sorts of fun toys. I spent most of my time at the extremes - from 400mm (the Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS) down to 15mm (the Canon [...]
Diorama on Anirama
Suddenly my blog is becoming a travelog of cool museums. Last week I was in Pittsburgh and spent an afternoon at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - recommended because of their great dinosaur exhibit. It's worth the trip there just for that, but I found myself pulled into the dioramas on North American mammals. [...]
California Academy of Sciences
Don Marinelli and I spent last Tuesday afternoon at the California Academy of Sciences, getting a behind-the-scenes tour of the building, the planetarium, and the aquarium. If you haven't been there before, you need to go. Now. Four of my favorite shots: Portholes on the Roof (learn about the living roof here) God Rays in [...]
Golden Gate Bridge from 'That Spot'
Golden Gate Bridge and Transamerica Building I've seen a lot of pictures from this spot where the Transamerica Building is right inside one of the uprights of the bridge, and I wanted to see where 'that spot' was. It's very easy to find, just look out your window as you're driving up the narrow road [...]