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Back in the saddle…

It’s almost that time again! The 2010 Grand Prix season starts in just under two weeks at the Losail International Circuit in Doha, Qatar, and I’m very excited to be returning to this unique place for the season opener. It’s going to be great to be track-side and in the paddock of the highest level […]

Canon to Nikon to Canon

The arrival of another child and the desire for photos without bringing a large DSLR and flash everywhere you find a newborn during the first week of her life meant that a point and shoot was needed in my camera bag. I’ve been watching a couple of models for a long time and finally picked […]

Venga la tormenta

On Thursday I went looking for another local point of interest in the Lake Tahoe area, the famed Bonsai Rock, which rests on the eastern shore of the lake, just below Sand Harbor. Someone on Flickr had posted the location of the rock, but actually getting to the spot was a bit of a challenge. […]

Sierra Wave

This was taken Sunday afternoon from Speedboat Beach. As I was came over Donner Summit I noticed this amazing cloud over the lake area and wondered if it would still be visible by the time I arrived at the water. It was, but it was too far north to photograph more than this section of […]

Best Seat In The House

These rocks are by the old Sutro Baths in San Francisco, and I don’t think anything has a better spot to watch the SF sunsets than they do. Info: Made with a Nikon D700 Digital SLR Camera, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens, on a Manfrotto 055XPROB Pro Tripod with a […]

Risky Business

The other day I noticed a pretty good break beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, so I thought I’d put my B + W #110 ND filter to use to soften the water as it broke on the rocks. The fog was also moving nicely as is passed through the north tower. The surf happened to […]

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency at Work

Several aspects of doing work on our place in Kings Beach have seemed unnecessarily complicated when it comes to what we can and can’t do on the property according to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. There are strict limits on moving soil, coverage of the land itself, runoff, etc etc. But after this last trip […]

Setting Moon

The setting moon was visible from where I’d been shooting for about 7 minutes this morning as the clouds were changing pretty quickly. This morning’s colors in the sky were subtle but quite nice. The amount of snow that had melted since last week allowed me to reach several new spots, such as this one […]

A Good Value?

When I switched from Canon to Nikon I had to replace not only my camera bodies and lenses, but all of the essential accessories, too. One of my most-used gadgets is a wired remote shutter release, and a friend had just raved about a third-party version that was only $10, compared to the $70 street […]

More Real Life Drobo

Here’s another bit of shared learning for my fellow Drobo users: Running out of space on my Drobo the other day, I decided to replace a 500GB drive with a 1TB drive (cheap at Fry’s, a Hitatchi 7200RPM 32MB Sata drive for less than $70, which reminded me how the service bureau I worked at […]