Project365: Day 12

Does it defeat the purpose if you eat two at a time?

(50mm, f/1.8, 1/60, ISO 800, no flash)

Project365: Day 11

For Mother's Day mom requested a picture or two of me. She got three.

(50mm, f/3.2, 1/15, ISO 800, no flash)

Project365: Day 10

Michael Buble (at the Honda Center) may just be my new 'best concert ever'.

(50mm, f/1.8, 1/40, ISO 800, no flash)

Project365: Day 9

Part of the Art In Public Places initiaive, Mark Twain hangs out in Monrovia's Library Park.

(50mm, f/3.2, 1/250, ISO 320, no flash)

Art in Public Places: Mark Twain

You not have noticed that Mark Twain likes to hangout in Monrovia's Library Park. He's the perfect subject; so still and emotive.

Project365: Day 8

This was the day my roomate's cat managed to survive after jumping from a second story window with no discernable injuries.

(50mm, f/1.8, 1/30, ISO 400, no flash)

Project365: Day 7

Kirsten's 33rd birthday was celebrated with dinner at Outback followed by her favorite: Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting.


(65mm, f/6.3, 1/10, ISO 1600, no flash)

Project365: Day 6

A free car wash following an oil change. And just in time! (It rained the next day, of course.)

(98mm, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 250, no flash)

Project365: Day 5

Today was cool and overcast, making it the perfect weather to sit on my back porch and eat lunch.

(18mm, f/3.5, 1/60, ISO 100, no flash)

Project365: Day 4

Mimosas = Nectar of the gods. No Sunday brunch is complete without it.

(50mm, f/1.8, 1/500, ISO 640, no flash)

Project365: Day 3

While celebrating a friend's birthday in Redondo Beach, I couldn't resist slipping away to capture a few (dozen) of the sunset. A sailboat cruising by made the setting picture-perfect.
Sunset at Redondo Beach

(155mm, f/6.0, 1/2500, ISO 1250, no flash)

Call me crazy. Or dedicated. I'll accept both.

My alarm went off at 4:00am this morning.
I climbed out of bed at 4:11am.
I drove off at 4:36am.
I weaved my way through the Angeles National Forest from 4:53-5:41am.
I finally arrived at the California Poppy Reserve at 6:02am.
I set up my camera on a tripod and I waited.

Waiting.
Waiting.
Well hello there, Sun.And then I walked around, wishing that I had made it earlier in the poppy season to witness the blooms blanketing the fields of the Antelope Valley. Nontheless, it was lovely just to be out so early with the chatter of birds and the soft rustle of the morning breeze.

Project365: Day 2

The item that will one day keep me from bawling my eyes out. Thank you Lord for inventing 80G external back-up hard drives.

(50mm, f/1.8, 1/500, ISO 1000, no flash)

Project365: Day 1

It didn't occur to me to be nervous or feel the pressure until yesterday. Since I decided to launch my own Project365 I've been impatient to begin, my mind racing with ideas of all the quirky and random things Hugo & I could take photos of throughout this next year. But when it came down to deciding what I'd capture for this very first image, I was apprehensive. There were so many directions I could go and I hoped to land on something that perfectly captured the spirit of the project and what's to come; I wanted something unexpected and unusual. Ok, perhaps a self-portrait is not the most unexpected or unusual, but in the end I felt that was the way to say it best: Ready. Set. Go!

The beginning of a beautiful relationship

(135mm, f/6.0, 1/30, ISO 1600, no flash)

Places to Go: Carlsbad Flower Fields

For more information on the Flower Fields go here. Otherwise go here for more photos and here for Denise's account of our day.

Oduros

While I don't claim a particular passion for children's photography, it sure is fun to capture adorable kids being themselves.

Good for the soul.

In the hopes of loosening a bothersome pinched nerve on my left side, Hugo & I went for a walk after work yesterday. It wasn't the most aerobic of walks as I was continually distracted by charming little flowers and mini-fields of wheat that made me feel as though I live in the country, and not a suburb of LA.

Good for the soul, if not for the body.

Scenes from a Soccer Game

Places to Go: Getty Villa

In my second outing of the weekend, Hugo and I, along with Liz (in town from Chicago) headed to Malibu to explore the newly renovated Getty Villa. Stunningly beautiful, it's a place that successfully combines the ancient and the modern, and that makes you want to sit outside and read your book. Small enough to be easily explored in half a day, we nibbled on muffins and cookies at the cafe and soaked up the ocean breeze and sun's rays (which had been rain in Monrovia). An undeniably lovely way to spend a Sunday.

A selection of favorites from the day...





A few more favorites are here.
Favorites and all the rest are here.