8.7.2005 - clothespins, icons of a past age...

11.16.05 - sleeping client during a beautiful warm morning, waiting for me to finish photographing an image for her clothing store. It was so nice, I was rather jealous that she got to take the nap.

Clothspin - 11.16.05 - shooting an image for a local clothing store...

May 22nd, 2005

May 22nd, 2005

May 19th, 2005 - dressing room chair

May 19th, 2005 - Empty store downtown San Luis Obisp

A series of pictures of Mt Shasta taken over the course of an hour and a half in the beginning of October 2005.

A newish trend in advertising on tv that I am noticing... the reflection of an action that is different than the primary focal point. The Rokr I Tunes phone commercials is using this, and I just saw a Jeep commercial using it too... it's interesting especially since the ad firms are doing it so well...

Leaving work this evening, the moon was rising rather majestically above the Santa Lucias...

I am watching my only TV channel I get at the moment, and it's a Penn and Teller magic special on... they are showing how they do their tricks and I have to say it's a let down knowing how they do them. I think I would have rather not known, since the mystery is now lost. When I was on vacation this last month, I caught a show on A&E called Criss something or other... he is an illusionist too, very impressive. I wanted to know how he did his stuff, but now after seeing this show... I don't want to know, why ruin the mystery as mundane as it probably is.

On another note, I really like the imagery that the Cingular commercials use to show their 'five bars'... it's too bad their creative images don't add up to five bars on my cingular phone.. phht.

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What can I say, I am the ultimate procrastinator. There are several things I could be doing right now to be productive, but I am playing with this blog. I have relieved a fair amount of stress though, as now I finally have an outlet for some of those random images I take, that never see the light of day... this four picture series is from the 5th of November - I was doing laundry at around dusk, and the light coming through the window above the washing machines was absolutely renaissance. Someone thoughtfully placed a broken chair outside the back door too... I ran back upstairs (the laundry room is in the basement... which basements around here are very rare) and grabbed my tripod, my 100mm macro lens and my 50mm lens. What can I say...

Another shot from the Avila Pier, Saturday November 12th. Sea foam and water ripples.

Oh yeah, just read in the New York Times magazine today that there will be a movie about the Carthaginian general Hannibal. It is going to star Vin Diesel. Most would probably cringe, but I kinda like him, especially from the movies Pitch Black and the Chronicles of Riddick. Not the most intellectual movies of all time, but I have a tendency towards the pulp entertainment that Hollywood produces, as I like to escape and not think too much when I am watching a movie most of the time...
A great book written about Hannibal a hundred years ago by Theodore Ayrault Dodge - called simply Hannibal... one of the best history books I have read because of his incredibly objective point of view on the conflict between Carthage and Rome.

I was inspired to create a blog because of a good friend, Leif Jones and his excellent art blog and another whom I have never met, who writes and posts photographs on her 'blog' http://phetus.typepad.com/fauxtoes/.
There are so many images that I capture that I would never really put on my website as a portfolio piece and would not send out as an 'Image of the Week' as I have for the last couple years, so I decided a forum like this would be best suited.
Additionally, (in the formal bs of things) there are many occassions where I just see something that tickles my optic nerves enough that I am sure that others would like to see too...
Kinda like the very cool shot on today's New York Time's travel section. A dogsled team... if you saw it, I am sure you know what I mean about tickling the nerve, if you have not...

Anyway, here is the first picture for the blog.

I was out at Avila beach (central coast of california for those of you not from my area), to shoot some commercial shots of the Custom House restaurant. They had to cancel the shoot because of a banquet coming in, so I wandered out to the pier and shot images of the waves coming in... a personal favorite subject of mine. As I was walking back to my car I grabbed this shot of the pier and it's shadows.

Avila Pier, Saturday November 12th.