When we first moved here, Jake and I drove up to Skyline Drive early in
the morning and I snapped some photos. They’ve been sitting in the drive
for weeks (months actually) so I thought this would be a good time to
post a few.
We spent our last three nights in Istanbul, at the Bebek Hotel. Even
though it was unbearably hot, we took frequent walks and I kept wanting
to take snapshots of this amazing door. I finally remembered to bring my
camera and took this photo and another.
Alice is the nanny of one of my childhood friends. It’s been over 12
years since I last saw her, so as soon as I did, I snapped this shot.
You can see some of my other portraits from the Istanbul trip here.
Jake, David and I drove down to Big Sur last week for a day trip so I
could take my new 10-22mm lens for a test drive.
Turkey is full of stray cats and dogs. This is even more true in the
island of Burgaz where we spend our summers. Since they are stray, many
of the cats are sick, mangy, and injured. They are still beautiful and I
couldn’t help but photograph many. You can find a few more: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
and
7.
Another from our night shoot from weeks ago. As you can see, these
are not processed as well as they could be. Now, I am especially glad
that we did the shoot since I don’t think I’ll be near a beach at
night anytime soon again. Beautiful La Jolla.
Two weeks ago, Jake, David and I flew to Florida for Jake’s
grandmother’s funeral. While we were there, Jake’s mom wanted to take
a walk by the late and feed the ducks. As an overjoyed David walked
around, talking to all the animals, I tried to snap some photos as I
kept an eye on him. They didn’t come out as well as I had hoped but I
wanted to put up a few just for the memory of it.
Here’s another one from our recent night shoot.
Barclay and I went to Windansea Beach last night to do some night
photography. I took most of my photos before or around sunset but got
a few ok ones in the dark. Of the bunch, this is one of my favorites.
To me, it has the magical feel of night photography. ISO: 100.
Aperture: 22. Shutter Speed:28sec.(bulb)
When I got my passport last year, Jake and I had planned to drive to
Mexico right away so I could get to use my brand new American
passport. As things turned out, we never got to go. This weekend,
looking for something to do, we decided to drive to Ensenada, The
drive from San Diego is around an hour and a half. We got on the road
as soon as David woke up (5am!) and got there early enough to get
some fantastic weather before it came pouring down.
I loved Ensenada. In so many ways, it reminded me of being home. The
dirt, the poverty, the small streets, the sweet, kind people, the
tiny candy stores. I felt completely at ease and loved every moment
of being there. I felt more at ease there then I do here in San
Diego. The one thing Ensenada had that Istanbul doesn’t was color.
The magnificent color in all the buildings delighted me and is
something we don’t really have in most of Turkey (except Bodrum,
which is all white and blue – not so colorful as Ensenada but still
gives me the same sense of loveliness). I couldn’t get enough of the
color.
Since I haven’t taken any photos (that aren’t portraits of some kind)
in such a long time, I didn’t even know where to begin. I took a
whole bunch of photos before rain came pouring down. I am not sure I
am thrilled with any of them but I still like them because theu are
my memories of the wonderful trip. I’ll post some of them over the
next few weeks.
Of course, on the way back, they didn’t ask me for anything but my
driver’s license so I didn’t get to use my spankin’ new passport. Oh
well.
When he wakes up from his morning nap, David gets a piece of string
cheese. I take the cheese out of its wrapper and he holds the cheese
in one hand and the wrapper in the other. It’s one of his favorite
foods. At least for now.
Just for the fun of it, I removed a lot of the noise from this image.
Since our house doesn’t have perfect lighting, I take most of my
indoor photos at 800ISO, thus get a lot of noise.
This is a relatively older photo that I took but never got around to
posting. I have a bunch of photos that are sitting on the server just
like this one so I am trying to go through them and see if I like to
put them up. There’s something about this particular photo that makes
me feel lonely and sad. But I still like it. I hope you do, too.
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