Surfing Continues

Spent another large block of time going through editing surfing images from Steamer's Lane in Santa Cruz, California. It's amazing sometimes how much more time can be spent in the office working than out in the field creating images. As you can probably guess I'd much rather like being out on the cliffs photographing surfers than staring at a screen full of them. In any case here are a few more for you to enjoy. Comments are really appreciated.

God's bless,

chris

Surfing Heaven

I spent part of this evening going through and editing some more of the surfing images. Man you can sure go through the CF cards doing action photography like bike racing and surfing. More with surfing than with biking I would say. Wooo hoo! Click,,click,click!

So here are some of the results from Steamer's Lane in Santa Cruz. it is an awesome place for ground based surf photography because you can get relatively close to the surfers and when they surf into the cove they surf right past you.

God's blessings to all,

chris

Playing with Glass

A while back I read a tutorial on photographing glass in a way that I haven't ever tried before. So I took a couple of screen shots on how it was done and then saved a copy of it to my desk top for a future attempt. So today I beat myself up at the gym and then went to the Dollar Tree to find a cheap glass vase I could try a modified version of the technique on.

When I got home I set up a white tagboard sweep inside of my light/product photo box. Then I placed two black tagboard flags on the insides of the box to absorb light and give definition to the sides of the vase. The next step was to set up two AB 1600 studio lights on the outsides of the box facing toward the back of the sweep. The idea here was to bounce diffused light off of the backk of the sweep through the vase.

Overall I was really happy with the results. Normally I directly light the glass with diffuse light and it doesn't have quite as much defintion.Using this method the black flagging on the sides really gave the vase more definition. It is something that I'm going to add to my quiver of tools to use when lighting projects in the future.

God's blessings to all,

chris

Layers of Life

This morning I'm exhausted and my eyes feel tired too. To much image processing on the computer. Next on the agenda is to go to the gym and go beat myself into a little better shape. This morning when I got up the first thing I did was to look out my bedroom window and there it was an image waiting to be taken. So I grabbed my camera and a big telephoto lens. I plopped a pillow on the window ledge and laid the camera on it and composed away. So here it is. The Layers of Life.

The image is how I feel today. I have to peel away the layers to get at what is really important in life. My love of the Lord and my family and then the rest of all the other things. I've been too busy photographing and not peeling away the layers of the less important things in life.

God's light and love to all,

chris

Celebrating Earth Day Without Knowing It

Today was a glorious sunny day and I celebrated "Earth Day" without even knowing it. Well that's not quite true. For a good part of it anyway. My niece called and told me that she would like to meet us in the City for lunch as she had a job interview there today.I readily agreed as I enjoy an outing to San FRancisco to see the sights and play tourist once in awhile. So when I checked Google Maps to see where she wanted to meet us I noticed that the restaurant was located in the ferry building. Hmnn... I thought to myself. Why not just drive down and take the ferry and avoid the hassles of driving in the city and trying to find parking.

So that's what we did. In chatting away to a woman on the ferry she commented that she was honoring "Earth Day " today by taking the ferry. Oh, that's right I remembered. Today is Earth Day and that's what I'm doing too! Though I hadn't put a heck of a lot of thought into it. Duh!

In any case the day was beautiful and the bay was flat. We saw all kinds of boats. When we arrived at the ferry building we had plenty of time to walk around and look at all the shops and produce being sold at the Ferry Building. We even saw a cellist being filmed by a film crew for what I'm not sure. Let me know if it's someone famous.

Lunch with my niece was wonderful and we caught up with what is going on in her life. Then we caught the return ferry with the afternoon commuters and headed home. It was the end to a wonderful day.

Sincerely and God bless,

chris

Mad Mix of Images or A Trip Report

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