California Sunset August 26, 2019 at 02:56AM

Sunset in Ocean Beach California, August 25, 2019

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Sunset over Hill Street August 26, 2019 at 02:55AM

Looking Down Hill Street at the Sunset in Ocean Beach California, August 25, 2019

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Sunset With Light August 26, 2019 at 02:54AM

Sunset in Ocean Beach California, August 25, 2019

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Bird Rock Sunset January 06, 2019 at 10:04PM

This is at Bird Rock, in La Jolla CA.

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Sea Gull Sunset January 06, 2019 at 10:04PM

This is at Bird Rock, in La Jolla CA.

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Ocean Beach Pier January 06, 2019 at 09:16PM

So, here we are at the top of Niagra, looking down the hill, into Ocean Beach, CA.

Even though the Pacific Ocean, looks, well, very pacific, it is not. Today the O.B. Pier is closed to people because of high surf.

This is a vertically stitched set of four landscape images, shot at 215mm through a Sony FE 100-400 GM lens onto a Sony a7r ii.

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Ocean Beach Pier January 06, 2019 at 09:16PM

So, here we are at the top of Niagra, looking down the hill, into Ocean Beach, CA.

Even though the Pacific Ocean, looks, well, very pacific, it is not. Today the O.B. Pier is closed to people because of high surf.

This is a vertically stitched set of four landscape images, shot at 215mm through a Sony FE 100-400 GM lens onto a Sony a7r ii.

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Ocean Beach Christmas Tree December 29, 2018 at 12:45PM

Ocean Beach has a, sort of a Charlie Brown Christmas tree every year. This is the tree for 2019.

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O.B. Sunset – 20181118 _DSC7721 November 18, 2018 at 06:48PM

Sometimes a longer lens is necessary to get a sky.

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O.B. Sunset, 20181101 November 02, 2018 at 12:43PM

Had to pull over and enjoy the sunset.

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Christmas in San Diego – December 24, 2017 at 11:48AM

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Just to let you know, here in San Diego, where the weather is nice all year long. … We welcome you to come and live in the greatest place on earth.

Awaiting the Sun.

In the still times of the early mornings, before the sun rises, before the birds sing, there is a quiet time where we can contemplate our place in the world. What are our personal goals? What is the future of mankind in fifty years? A thousand years? Five thousand years? Longer than recorded history?

These times are but a drop in the bucket.

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One Day Road Trip – Beach Cities from Encinitas to Mulholland Drive.

I am starting to offer “One Day Road Trip workshops.” The intent is to teach a very small single-car group of people how to use their cameras to capture their imagination in various situations. I do that by showing you how to decide what we want to shoot, and how to use their cameras to capture the needed images for a wide range of photographic targets, from a single image, to multiple image HDR panoramas.

This workshop worked the San Diego to L.A. route from the south, north. The next time, we will work from the north to the south, ending with a sunset somewhere along the coast.

The day went something like this, Drive and talk about options for the next target, and plan those shots while driving. Pull over at the target, and shoot the images we discussed, plus a few non planed shots. Then drive again, discussing the post production that those captured images will go through, and plan the next stop. … We did that all day long.

For example, this day, the first stop was in Encinitas, where we visited the art gallery of Kirk Saber. This is an Image of Kirk and Renee in the gallery. It is a multi image stitched panorama. You can click on the image to see a larger version.

We stopped, and started, all along the way. … Here we did some light painting in Venice. This is a combination of 10 long exposure images.

The gallery of my Workshop images created during this trip.

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Zen at the Setting of the Sun

Everything that exists is its own complete universe. …
I stand by the sea, clicking away with my shutter release, grabbing the moments of a local sunset. Grabbing the fleeting moments as the sun hides behind the limb of the earth.
I stand with Gypsy, my dog who also enjoys the last few rays of this day. This day, when the sun, and the earth, and Gypsy, and I, all exists simultaneously.
This little moment, a few eye blinks between the Big Bang, and the final collapse of this universe, we share, almost entirely, the entirety of everything.

Everyone is the center of their own universe. … We are all equidistant from our centers, in all directions, at the speed of expansion, our individual observable universes, as they recede in an ever growing bubble of space time. Because we are all in different locations, and the speed of light is finite, all our observable universes are slightly out of sync.

Our universes overlap in every point except at the edges of the universe. Our edges are either, slightly closer or slightly farther away, from each of us, depending which edge we are closer to, by the distance that light takes to travle between us.

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A thing about Panoramas

This is just a little piece of information about why I shoot multi image panoramas. …I could shoot this with a single image using a very wide angle lens, or I could use a longer lens and take multiple images, and then stitch them together.

The secret is in the detail. … I believe everyone who reads this is a great photographer, or is smart enough to know the little things I know already. …

Detail. … The source image is a stitched set of ten images, five images per horizontal row. I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark II, whose RAW image width is about 5,600 pixels. … This combined RAW image has a width of 20,000 pixels, and a height of about 9,000 pixels. … In little words, “This image is way big.” That is what the image call-out is showing at the bottom of the image. Detail. … A little detail of the center of the combined image. If I had used a single wide angle image, my source would be only 5,600 pixels wide, not near as much detail in 5,600 pixels as 20,000 pixels.

I like stitched multi-image panoramas because they can maintain the beauty of a great space, as seen from a distance, and simultaneously, you can get close and see all kinds of interesting stories in the same image. … 😉 Details.

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