San Diego Weekend

So, I guess I have to start this travel post with a caveat, which isn’t the most elegant way to start a travel post.
See, Mel Heth left a comment (thanks Mel!) that apparently started all of your imaginations going way, way out of control.
Yes, I did go down to San Diego to meet [...]

Quiet Thanksgiving

Perhaps I’m just getting older.  Or lazier.  Or, quite possibly, both.
Whatever the reason, as time goes by, I find myself doing less on the Thanksgiving Holiday, even while society at large seems to be pushing everything and everyone to rush around at a more and more frantic pace every year.

New Page

Not a big thing, but I’ve added a new page to the blog tonight.
I’ve been wanting to put together a page of the header photos for a while, and finally buckled down and searched for them all tonight.
If I’ve forgotten any, do let me know, will you?

Respite

Just home from a much-needed relaxing weekend of car-camping in Kings Canyon.
There was hiking, talking, caving, fire lookouts, scenery galore, good food, and even a bear.

Stop-Motion World

For those of you of a certain age, remember shows like “Land of the Lost“?  Specifically, the stop-motion dinosaurs that they had on the show, with the shallow depth-of-field and jerky motions that screamed, well, “stop-motion dinosaurs.”
What if our world were not our world at all, but instead we were all just stop-motion puppets?  Miniatures [...]

Evolution Of A Photo

(First inspired by this post by Homer-Dog… two months ago…)
Back in the day (which makes me sound much older than I am, I know) I used to shoot pictures on my hikes with an SLR and slide film.  When I changed over from shooting slides to digital a few years ago, my shooting style changed [...]

Rainy Days

For the past few days a series of winter storms has been sweeping through Southern California, drenching the whole area in several inches of much needed rain.
Of course, in the city itself, it turns things into a mess, with traffic becoming a chaotic mess all over town.