On the Slopes

I was lucky enough to get a day of skiing this past weekend (hence the two days without posts, my apologies!), and also brave (or foolhardy!) enough to bring my camera up for a couple of runs at the end of the day. I was fairly sure I wouldn't fall down on top of the camera and break it, but you never know. Fortunately, it all went pretty well.

To get the rays of sun I used f/22, and tried to get just the edge of the sun in the frame. I honestly thought this shot wouldn't work, as I was shooting straight into the sun, but I think it actually didn't turn out too badly. I've been shooting too much with my telephoto recently, occupational hazard of living in a city and being lazy with the compositions I think, there is just way too much clutter when I grab my wide angle.

I am going to try to use it more, though. I think it's good for my photography muscles. Don't want them to atrophy.

Sleep With One Eye Open

A view of the sea lions at Pier 39 in San Francisco.

A Bit Sheepish?

At the racetrack I spent some time at this past weekend (and practiced my panning), there happened to be some sheep. It was one of those odd confluences that you really can't wrap your head around. Racetrack + sheep = ?

So I decided to just let it be. Sheep are where they are. I believe this is an undisputed fact. Racetracks pretty much are where they are as well, although because of the high speeds some relativity, and therefore time travel (this is what sci fi movies have led me to believe relativity is, please don't disabuse me - I'm fond of the notion) might come into play.

Plus space travel. Cars, if not racetracks, are good at traveling through space. Or at least pretty good. Anyway. Sheep. Back to the sheep.

They were there. At the racetrack. Eating some grass. So I took a picture. What else do I do?

Well, it's been a while . . .

. . . so I figured I could post one more photo of blossoms, right?

Jason D. Moore Guest Post, Again

I'm guest posting over at Jason D. Moore's blog again. Come look!

Dream House

Don't you just wish this was your house? I sure wouldn't mind spending some time living here.