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Noah at Disney’s World of Color Preview

June 11, 2010 – 11:27 am

Last night I shot some photos of Noah painting at Disney’s World of Color celebrity preview event.  First, the show is amazing so make sure you go see it.  It totally lived up to the hype and I found myself getting completely lost in the special effects.  But here’s just a couple of quick shots of Noah doing his thing.  He painted a canvas of Mickey and a 5 foot tall Vinylmation character, both of which came out amazing.

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Low Light and Night Photos

April 28, 2010 – 1:19 pm

Photography is all about light.  Whether there is lots of light or very little light, this is what the film negative or digital sensor collects and interprets as an image.  So if you have a tripod, it cam be really fun to experiment and see what you can come up with in situations when the light is scarce.  One if the cool things about newer digital cameras is their ability to tolerate high iso’s enabling the artist to do even more in these situatioms.  The first couple of pictures were shot at 3200 ISO approximately 30 minutes after sunset,  They were shot with a 50mm lens at f/1.4.

The next two shots were bulb exposures of about 7 minutes each.  You can see the movement in the stars.  In the first exposure below, the ocean looks kind of eerie.  Very cool effect…

in the exposure below, the lights from town on the horizon create a nice silhouette for the view platform.  I like how you can see the different colors in the stars.  It was getting really foggy so I had to bring my camera in, but if I could have kept the exposure going for a few hours, it would have made for some killer star trails.  You can see how the stars are rotating around the North Star.

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Thanksgiving in Yountville

December 28, 2009 – 11:21 am

I’m definitely way behind in my posting since these photos were taken over Thanksgiving!  But they are still nice to look at even if they are a bit late.  We spent the holiday with Shell’s family and had an amazing time.  I typically wake up at sunrise and go shoot some photos in the early morning so I don’t have to drag my family all over the place!

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This is where I will be in my retirement years, in case you want to track me down.

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Bridge over the Napa River
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One of my favorite places to visit…Oakville Grocery.  They have some amazing food in there.
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Lots of fall color to view around town
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It was interesting to see how different vines were in different phases of their growth cycle.  A lot of the vineyards had already lost all of their leaves while others were just beginning to turn colors.

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IMG_6341aI’ll be posting more in the next day or two so stay tuned…

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Photo(s) of the Day – 12.12.09

December 12, 2009 – 12:12 pm

Alas, I am posting something new on my Blog!  Man how time flies by!  This is my absolute favorite time of the year and I have taken literally thousands of photos in the last month, but I have been so busy that there just hasn’t been time to share.  But things are finally getting somewhat back to normal so I thought I’d put up a quick post of some photos I took at Disneyland the other night.  Merry Christmas!

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I love the way Sleeping Beauty’s Castle looks at Christmas time

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I couldn’t decide which of these fireworks pics I liked the best

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My First Museum Piece!

November 6, 2009 – 1:31 pm

This is a bit of a crazy story.  But it really shows just how the internet has made our world, in some ways, a very small place.  Thanks Al Gore!  Anyway, back in June, I was contacted by an administrator of  The Jewish Museum of Berlin regarding a photo I had on my blog.  The photo is of a girl, her mom and her grandmother saying the blessing over a Challah at a Bat Mitzvah.  You can see the photos from that I took of that Bat Mitzvah HERE.  The reason why I was being contacted is that the museum was planning an exhibit on the relationship between food and religion and they wanted to display my photo in the exhibit.  I received a package this week which is the book that accompanies the museum exhibit.IMG_4453a

And sure enough, on Page 133, there’s my photo!

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With my credit at the bottom of the page.  I like how California is spelled with a “K” in German.  I might start spelling it that way too.

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And here’s a shot of the room where my photo is hung.  You can kind of see it in the lower left corner of the collage on the wall.

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The museum has an average annual visitation of 750,000, so it’s quite an honor to be part of this exhibit!  So if you happen to find yourself in Berlin in the near future, be sure to visit the Jewish Museum and tell them you know the guy that took that photo :)

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