Ivory-Post Apocalypse

Image/week 11 of the 52 week challenge.

Battles raged, bombs exploded, buildings imploded and exploded. The heat of the fires burnt everything and left everything dead in its wake.

Only one thing though. After emerging from my fallout shelter I noticed one thing. Ivory was still standing tall in all her glory. A little grayish from the soot, ashes, and smoke. She beat all odds. All I could do is admire her beauty and strength.

The Poppy Concert

The Congregation

The Heart of Poppy

Be Still My Heart

The Entertainer

Last month we made a trip out to the California Poppy Reserve. It was a windy day. The poppies were giving quite a performance. I used a fast shutter speed so that I could grab them in position. I used macro focus on all of them.

They danced for all the spectators. Leaping about and swirling around. They were entertaining.

2014 Lunar Eclipse

This is a Lunar Eclipse series I made on April 14/15th. Noting the orange glow on the moon. Reports out are calling it a blood moon. There's a bit of controversy surrounding the "blood moon". This article explains what a blood moon is and how it occurs. This video shows what happens as the Earth blocks all direct sunlight from reflecting off the Moon's surface and instead the light passes through the Earth's atmosphere, turning it orange.

All of these have a hazy blur on them, except one. There was a thin layer of cloud cover passing. I set up my tripod on the concrete to make the camera stable. In the last two I captured Mars in the upper right corner. My favorite one is the last one. I used my Sony DSC-RX100M2 camera to make these.

Focal Length: 37.1mm
Exposure: 1/30
F stop Number: f/11
ISO: 100

Focal Length: 37.1mm
Exposure: 1/30
F stop Number: f/11
ISO: 100

Focal Length: 37.1mm
Exposure: 1/4
F stop Number: f/10
ISO: 100

Focal Length: 37.1mm
Exposure: 1/30
F stop Number: f/4.9
ISO: 160

Focal Length: 10.4mm
Exposure: 30s [Long Exposure]
F stop Number: f/3.5
ISO: 100

Focal Length: 10.4mm
Exposure: 5s [Long Exposure]
F stop Number: f/3.5
ISO: 100

2014 Anniversary Mtn Trip

Paul and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary on February 13th. We celebrated by having dinner and then we drove up into the Mountains on Glendora Ridge Rd in the Angeles National Forest Area. Paul and I both were playing with my new camera he bought me for Christmas. It's hard to say now who took which. We got several. Many were experiments to see exactly how we could push the camera. All the images were taken between 10pm and 1030pm. There's one image that requires some extra TLC before it can be presented. Below are the culmination of me and Paul's handy work. I did all the post processing treatments to enhance the images.

Please share what you think and which one you like the best!

This image was captured with the moon as seen
in the corner with the glare, 10pm at night, with
minimal post processing.

This is the same image from above. There were
several post processing artistic treatments used.
One, you can see a different moon. The moon
shot was taken a few days before at dusk.
Enhancements were added to stars and colors.

Several post processing artistic treatments were
were used on this image. The basic scene is
exactly as it was captured.

Sunday Aventure

Mountain Adventure

A Sunday drive

These images are from an impromptu Fall Photo Shoot of some nearby mountains to where we live now.

I took them with my Samsung Galaxy S3 Android Mobile phone using a couple of different camera apps I installed. I have other camera apps for different functions. Later, I'll post some images using the others so you can see the diversity an android mobile device has.

Panoramic of Glendora Ridge

Fall plant life on a hillside.

Glendora Mountain Range

More Glendora Mountain Range

Sunset's beauty

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi

P365-Week 4 | 2011

I missed a week. So, I'm bringing this up to speed. Our weather hasn't been the best and it's hard to get out in the rain and get good shots. I almost had a great one of our Volcano yesterday. It was too gray and my camera couldn't distinguish the mountain from the clouds. Oh well. There'll be other times. So, I'm short on images. As the weather improves I can get better ones. I'll work on composing my own things to take pictures of. I was hoping to simply catch impromptu natural shots. I don't think that's going to work so well with this weather. LOL So, please enjoy for now. Happy Photoing.

Misa, the Wonder Dog


Rudy, the Egyptian Kitteh


Wild Animals


Sunset


Moonlight!

P365-Week 2 | 2011

By the fire!

Romantic Dinner!

My friend, Eva Moon, on stage!

Refreshing Drink!

Ginseng, being elusive!

I'm a bit behind the eight ball. I'm hoping next week will be on target. I guess I could cheat and go back a few months and use those. However, it wouldn't seem right since they don't fit the current time. So, if you can bare with me here. Enjoy!

Another try!

I will post a variety of images. I'm a fan of SecondLife. I'll make my 1st post on that. I'll bring this blog up to speed in the next few days. I lost track last year after a myriad of incidences that took place.

Huckleberry Pancake Run (BFC) [20100717]

We were invited to attend the annual Huckleberry Pancake Run this year. It was put together by Bikers For Christ in the Portland, OR area.

We rode from the Tacoma, WA area with five motorcycles. Two of those motorcycles had passengers. We have some video footage of the actual Huckleberry Pancake Run. Photos I'm going to share below are only from the Huckleberry Pancake Run. There wasn't any taken before or after. I was plumb wiped out I'm tellin ya!

These are at Calvary Chapel in Milwaukie, OR

The gal standing up high there is representing an organization that is an alternative to Planned Parenthood and abortions. It's called Options 360. Bikers For Christ did the 50/50 raffle/drawing thing. We donated half of what we collected to Options 360. Check out their website.

These are at the Huckleberry Inn, Gov't Camp, OR. The last two are of Paul, my hubby, me and his motorcycle.

These are the Columbia River at Rowena, OR in the area they call The Dalles. We were high atop a lookout. It was mighty windy. I got a bit of windburn on my face while there.

These are taken at Multnohmah Falls, OR. We had refreshment here. It was a very busy place. It was beautiful though. The group photo is some of our Bikers For Christ Ministry. You can learn more about Bikers For Christ by hovering over the name and clicking the link.