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Monday 02.10.03
spring!

it's spring in california and the almond tree is in bloom.

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Saturday 02. 1.03
scary

rose bush thorns seen up close are even scarier than far away.

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Monday 01.20.03
morning in the garden

came out to the garden the other day and noticed that the nasturtiums were collecting really large clusters of dew. so i grabbed the canon with the macro zoom and here is the result - a nice collection of closeups.

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Sunday 01.19.03
more shoreline

fence and sky: shoreline

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Saturday 01.18.03
canadian geese

a small group of geese along the water's edge. i think i harassed them a bit.

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Friday 01.17.03
shoreline

remnants of pylons in the water

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Monday 01.13.03
shoreline :: looking east

looking east across the water to the east bay hills

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Sunday 01.12.03
walking shoreline

walked shoreline today rather than ride. took my camera and spent an hour just "seeing"

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Saturday 11.30.02
zooming in on pokemon

after the thanksgiving holiday is over. after the leftovers are all gone. after the throngs of people and all the shopping. what do you do? take pictures. playing with the macro on my camera, I capture these fun, colorful creatures.

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Sunday 11.17.02
woods for trees

last saturday evening, I attended a really terrific performance at works gallery. It was a performance piece by Sara Kraft and Ed Purver - Woods for Trees. They had recently performed this piece at the SF Fringe festival and had been voted best of the festival. The piece is loosely based on Hansel and Gretel but weaves in pointed thoughts about media and story telling. The piece is story, song, video, media. It is haunting, funny, disturbing and beautiful all at the same time. I have attached some shots - they don't begin to capture the piece, but here they are anyway.

For those in the bay area, they will be performing the piece again in January at Venue 9.

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Sunday 10.20.02
Dick Hungry Whore revived

Sheila's installation piece: Dick Hungry Whore : is currently up and installed as part of the Gen Art SF's 4th annual exhibition of Technology Based work by Bay Area emerging artists. The overall show is pretty interesting and runs for a month. Go see it! We attended the opening reception on Thursday and I shot some photos of her installation as well as some of the other exhibits.

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Saturday 08.24.02
Mono Lake

A photo album from the trip to Mono Lake and June Lake. These are all shot with the Canon D30. Some are done using the 89B infrared filter.
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Friday 08. 9.02
Giants vs. Cubs

Went to the baseball game Wednesday night. Hoping to see Barry Bonds hit his 600th homerun. Didn't happen unfortunately. He hit it tonight instead. But the game was a lot of fun anyway - and the Giants won 4-3. A bunch of us from work went. Our seats were along the third baseline. Pretty good view. Took the train home after the game. I really love living so close to San Francisco.

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Sunday 07.21.02
In the evening light

in the rose garden, the roses glow. I go out with the camera and try to capture some of it with the infrared filter. The light is the best of the day, I take the filter off and capture the glowing roses and the light filters through petals and leaves. It is summer and it has been a good day...

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Sunday 06.23.02
New Filter

5{frared filter (89B) for my Canon D30. This time it is a real screw on glass filter rather than the gel which I hacked to fit into a UV filter. Here are the first efforts:

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Tuesday 05.28.02
We Like to Party!

In celebration of Sheila's graduation and Memorial day, we held a big backyard party barbecue. Lots of people came, some didn't (we missed you all) and Sheila's band played. The band - Lost Chihuahua, was very good and the guests sang and danced. There was a pinata and pool action. Lots of margaritas - can you say tequila! - beer and sodas consumed. Dad played grill meister and old family friends drove into town to celebrate with us too.

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Sunday 02.24.02
Spring has Sprung

Rode the entire Los Gatos Creek trail today. Started at my house and just rode until I hit the big hill up to the dam and Lexington Resevoir past Los Gatos. Then I turned around and rode home - about 24 miles total. It was gorgeous, not too hot and slightly breezy. As usual there were too many people on the trail so there were times when I could have walked faster than I was cycling. But it was still a great ride.

Spent the rest of the day in the garden - working on the beds around the new patio.

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Monday 01.21.02
Macro Cat

Seymour in the garden enjoying the sun. A favorite place of his is in the front yard. I take advantage of his modelling skills and get to know the macro settings on the macro/zoom lens.

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Saturday 01.19.02
Sluts & Goddesses Pics

Finally the long awaited pictures from the Sluts and Goddesses party are up. See Sheila and Rose celebrate their birthday's with friends and family, check out the dancing action, find out who the biggest slut is, see the winners of the Best Goddess and Best Slut contest. Relive the magic.

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Saturday 11.10.01
Dick Hungry Whore

Sheila's pre-thesis show was this past week. We busted butt last weekend helping her get ready. I designed her postcard and posters. The reception was a hit - tons of people coming into the gallery. Well - see for yourself.

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Now Back to our Regularly Scheduled Program

Playing a bit with the macro lens on the Canon. Caught up with this butterfly checking out the Mexican Sage. It let me get about 6 inches away before flying off. Haven't been able to catch the hummingbirds yet.

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Friday 10.26.01
Fall in Virginia

This past weekend was spent back east in Virginia (for my hs reunion). While there I spend most of two days wandering around my old stomping ground of Loudoun County (west of DC) and in Washington DC. It was almost peak for the fall leaves and there were a ton of country festivals as well as the Virginia Gold Cup (steeplechase racing) going on while I was there. I shot the fall leaves and country side so I could have a bit of fall out here in California.

Note: this slideshow crashes Netscape 4x on the Mac

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Thursday 10.18.01
Seymour

Seymour has taken over my red chair. He sleeps here almost every night rather than on my bed. The seat is down so it is very warm. He definitely makes himself comfortable. He looks cuddly, but beware all those toes with claws.

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Friday 09.14.01
Skinned Needs

Sheila (my sister) had an opening this week. Originally scheduled for Tuesday, it was obviously postponed. She ended up opening on Wednesday and I shot the gallery space and her performance.

I am always amazed at her work - a combination of really interesting visual, beautiful lighting and always some sort of sound. There was a blend of music going on in the space. The paintings were 4x4 and created the floor, while the small oranges that were tattooed seemed small and somewhat insignificant next to the rich and luscious paintings. In the center of the space, Sheila was tattooing herself (for real) surrounded by a group of onlookers. The squeamish could watch from outside the gallery, as there were 4 video surveillance cameras set up.

I was very impressed with the "experience" and think in some ways, what she does is more experience design than what I do. Check out her site.

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Sunday 08.12.01
San Jose Jazz Festival
This afternoon we went over to the San Jose Jazz Festival. We started at the Main Stage but it was so crowded we decided to move along to another stage. There were 8 in all. The next one we tried - the Women in Jazz stage, was an indoor venue and was also too crowded. So we decided to keep going to the Blues stage. This is where we ended up staying for the rest of the evening. more...

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Sunday 07.22.01
New toys Explore the Garden

Just got one of my new lenses (thanks to an ebay auction) and have been experimenting with the macros setting. The lens is a 28mm - 80mm with Macro settings at the 80mm setting. I shot all these shots late in the evening - 7:30 to 8:15 and used the built in flash. Some of the blasted out ones seemed pretty interesting as well, so they are here too. Roses provide some really interesting texture and form when photographed closeup.

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Saturday 07.21.01
Taliesin West

Last weekend while in Phoenix for the AIGA Summit, I took a tour of Taliesin West. This is the Arizona branch of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture school and winter home. He came to Arizona in the 30's after working on some projects there, and bought up 600 acress. He built the buildings and school with his students and they spent winters there - and summers in Wisconsin at the original Taliesin. The school continues today and the buildings are part of the school as well as an active professional architecture firm. These are some of the images I took and they only show the outside, the cabaret theatre and the larger performance hall. Items of interest include the wall sconce in the cabaret theater and the baby grand piano tucked into a cut out in the concrete wall. We did not go into the living quarters of other buildings - although there is a tour where you can.

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