Slim pickings this week. I really didn’t shoot much at all. This is from a trip to catch the Santa Barbara Mission with the rising sun on a clear morning. It was perfect as I got there, but then the car drove into my shot and clouds started coming in. To top it off, somebody [...]

I spent a lot of time in the Santa Barbara Rose Garden this week, focusing on rosebuds. I find pictures of just the flower pretty boring so I’ve been shooting the bud, which is usually not the subject, and tried to get an interesting background for it. I’ve got several shots that came out pretty [...]

Earlier this week I was talking to Tom at work who mentioned that there’s a great place to go snorkelling in Carpinteria, which is easily reachable by kayak. I pressed him some more about the place, and figured it wouldn’t be too bad to swim to from a nearby beach. Turns out to be about [...]

In an effort to take pictures more frequently, I’m starting this Picture of the Week (PotW) series. My goal is to post a new picture every week, that was actually taken that week. We’ll see how it goes. This week’s picture is a shot I took Wednesday night after discovering that a full moon would [...]