After a long period of down time and a long absence on my part, the site is moved to a new server and I’m moving to an new apartment! Lots of updates coming soon. So hang in there and you won’t be disappointed.

Click for Borrego Springs Photo Album.

This weekend I went out to Borrego Springs desert on a camping trip with SDPhotoForums.com. I drove up with my friend Jeff Friday after work and got there about 6pm. The sun had already set and it was pitch black out there. Luckily my friend Marshall had already pitched the tent for me so we didn’t have to fumble around in the dark. On Saturday morning we woke up to a great breakfast of eggs, hash browns, and croisants. In the late afternoon we took a hike through the mountain to see some more of the scenery. It was a really nice weekend and I hope to get out to the desert to camp again soon.

Click here to view my photos from Greece

I got to spend a summer in Greece in 2002. I was still shooting in film then, and my friend was nice enough to scan some of my favorites into digital format for me. These pictures were taken with a Canon Rebel 35mm. I traveled around the country for 4 weeks, enjoying the sites. I was acutally robbed when I was there. It happened at a hotel on the beachs of Mykonos. I was sleeping in my room with a friend and someone climbed up to our second story balcony, came in the patio doors, and grabbed my wallet out from my bag next to my bed. It is presumed that they sprayed some kind of sleeping drugs or something in the room, because there were 7 rooms in a row hit from that hotel and no one woke up. I had only gone to bed at 4am and we woke at 7a to see my credit cards, license, and other personal items from my wallet thrown down the street. It seems the purpetrator was only after cash, thank goodness.

The rest of the country was very beautiful and hopefully you’ll enjoy some of my favorite snapshots of my trip.

Balboa Park bridge highway at night

I finally got out to do some night shooting around town here and I am very happy with what I came up with. I met some other photographers that were able to instruct me on how to capture the best possible image.

I was able to set my shutter speed on my camera to “bulb” settings in order to manually control when the shutter opens and closes. A tripod was used as well as a remote shutter release. The exposure on these pictures ranges from 30 seconds to 3 minutes.
Enjoy and comment!

San Diego Skyline At Night

San Diego Skyline at Night

Airplane taking off from Lineburg Field in San Diego

My Day in London '06

Yes, Yes, I know…It took me two and a half years to get these pictures processed into an album online. But I’m glad I waited! The Lightroom software has these nifty little options for creating quick albums. I had a very long layover in London, England on my way to Entebbe, Uganda and decided to hop on a bus tour to make use of the day. It was an expensive little excursion because just the taxi ride from the airport to the bus stop was $80. In my experience, if you have the chance..take a bus tour in any city you’re in. They are simply the best way to see everything cheap. Here is a nice tour of London via snapshots! Enjoy!

Christmas has been a great holiday at my house. Christmas eve consisted of a HUGE plate of homemade lasagna, fresh bread, and Italian sasauges. Followed by dessert of fresh baked M&M cookies and Buckeye candies. We got to open up one present each on Christmas eve. Christmas morning we woke up and made a big breakfast of scrambled eggs & bacon. The present unwrapping proceeded after breakfast and it was SO much fun. The final gift to me was a treasure hunt of gift cards that my parents funded and my sister and brother-in-law masterminded. It sent me high and low in the house and around the garage looking from clue to clue for a new gift. Quite a nice way to give gift cards.

Hope you all enjoyed your holiday!

Nikon D90

I splurged on myself a little this Christmas and got myself a Nikon D90 DLSR camera. I have been using the Canon EOS Digital Rebel for so long that I decided an upgrade was in order. I got the camera yesterday and have been playing around with it learning the controls all day. One of the most exciting things I’m going to be doing is working on some HDR (High Dynamic Range) images. I’ll post up more about it once I’m able to go out and shoot some of my own to share.

Free Galaxy Space Desktop Wallpaper

So I got a little crazy on photoshop tonight and decided to try my hand at a little art piece. I created one of my favorite places…space. I’ve always been fascinated by the big “unknown”. I’ve even got those glow in the dark stars on my ceiling of my bedroom…Tastefully done though ;). This was very fun to make and I hope you enjoy it. It was my first space scene and it was almost therapeutic to make. In this world everything goes where you want it to :). I’ll be making more I’m sure.

I also made this funky little 3D orb. Enjoy!