Not The Most Dazzling Of Intellects But My Heart’s In The Right Place

While I may not be the dimmest bulb shining, this photo below clearly illustrates I am definitively no where near being the brightest (click for slight enlargement): What the hell is that, you ask? Fair question. And the answer is that it is a three-minute exposure of the planet Venus — and no, it’s not …

Photo Opps

If we keep to the plan at hand Susan and I are set for a pre-sunset excursion with cameras to walk along the L.A. River between the Fletcher and Hyperion bridges before visiting the Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood to take in the traveling replica of the Vietnam Memorial that’ll be there …

Light Writing

Entirely frivolous, but that’s never stopped me, the above is a comp of images made goofing down in the dark basement with an LED light and the long-exposure functions of the new Canon cam that arrived yesterday and that I bought partially as a birthday present to myself and partially in protest to Olympus not …

Picture This

Dear Olympus, The only thing keeping me from unleashing an all-out, multiple-front complaint assault about the pathetic level of customer service you’ve provided me in regards to the broken digital camera I sent you for repairs at the end of April is the fact that I didn’t pay for the unit in limbo. That’s right, …

Frequent Flier Smiles

Tony Pierce just posted on LAist about photographer Mark “The Cobrasnake” Hunter being on a flight to Miami and another passenger onboard just happened to be Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who obliged the popular shutterbug by posing for a couple pix (here and here). Wow. One could come up with several reasons why Villaraigosa’s smile is so fake …