Today in L.A., after our little rain shower (STORM WATCH!! The Sky is Falling!!!), the skies were absolutely blue and clear. Not even a cloud overhead to break up the blueishness.
Except…as I walked out my door, I noticed dozens of long stringy clouds , those being contrails from the airplanes overhead.
It looked like a very [...]

I was feeling all macho and manly after completing the 30 Day Photo Challenge without missing a day. But then I found Karen Nichols. Not only did she do it a whole year straight, but her photos rock as well.
I highly recommend adopting this challenge as a way to instill discipline in your photography. View [...]

Here’s a shot I took with my Nikon D200 & Nikon 15000mm Super-telephoto. I was lucky enough to have been able to attach my camera and lens to the side of a Saturn V booster rocket just as it was leaving Cape Canaveral.
The booster was headed around the sun, so I set the shutter-timer to [...]

I hate April Fool’s Day.

I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles. But for some reason, people in our neighborhood are totally into keeping chickens and roosters. Many, I know, participate in the friendly little sport of cock fighting. Nice. But these roosters are stupid. They never crow at dawn! They crow [...]

“…I’m afraid there’s no denyin’, I’m just a dandelion, a fate I don’t deserve…”
No, it’s not the yellow-brick-road, but my yard has quite a few of these guys popping up. They look cool up close, with all their little seed pods, suited-up, ready to take flight, but for now stuck in a central core.

These were [...]