This shot was taken in almost total darkness. The only light I could see was to the left coming from the street lamp and the soft orange lingering from the sunset. This is on a side road that parallels the 101 freeway about 2 miles from Calabasas Ca. See tha large one on Flickr http://goo.gl/7gcyb.
I went to a beer tasting event at the Stuffed Sandwich (link) in San Gabriel and snapped this on my way home. (more here). The tasting was an event put on by a home brewing club named The Maltese Falcons (link). The Falcons lay claim to being the oldest home brewing club in America. On a whim, weeks before the tasting, I attended one of their meetings. It was in the back of The Home Beer, Wine, Cheesemaking Shop. Just a bunch of guys and gals that are interested and very knowledgable in home brewing. I’d like to run a micro brew once I retire. I sampled some of the members home brews and was very impressed. They told me about the tasting event and said it was one of those “must do” events.
In a pinch, I used my sunglasses as a filter to get these golden tones. I really like taking shots along California’s Coastline. This particular day I was gifted with some spectacular clouds.
In photography, the golden hour (sometimes known as magic hour, especially in cinematography) is the first and last hour of sunlight during the day,[1] when a specific photographic effect is achieved due to the quality of the light.
In the left of this shot is Steve Roth (link), drummer extraordinaire. I met Steve in August of 2010 when I got a wild hair to learn the drums. He now comes to the house weekly and attempts to teach me the fine art of drumming. In this shot, Steve is playing with his band Into The Mixx (link). I asked if I could come and watch the show and take some shots and he said sure. More shots of the band can be found here (link)
This was shot along The California Coastline on Highway 1. It’s about 5 miles south of Zuma Beach.
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This is from some seeds that my brother Thor gave me. We
must have had a thousand of these asian poppies blooming this past
spring. I shot this with 3 exposures -2ev 0 and +2ev. Processed in
Photoshop CS5.
Jillian just finished her softball season with the most dynamic win I have ever witnessed. She was playing hurt, halfway through the game a wild pitch hit her upper arm and took her out of it for a while. The good of this is that it pissed her off so much that she took it out on the ball. Adding to her teams awesome effort by smashing the ball to deep center bringing 2 RBI’s and a double.
It all came down in the 7th. Score was tied 6-6. The opposing coach had walked our #1 batter to load the bases. Lucky came up with 2 outs and took 2 strikes. The next pitch was on fire and caused a hush to come over us all. Except Lucky, that ball was met with the swing of the season and knocked directly at the shortstop who wanted nothing to do with it. The ball continued past the left fielder coming to rest deep in the outfield. This brought in three runners ending the game with a walk-off.