I went out for a sunset on Thursday but missed it by 15 minutes. Then I was planning to shoot some this afternoon but it was raining. So I ended up with the stand by of cute rat pictures. I hoped to get rats on a rope, but they didn’t like being on there. I [...]

Last weekend I put up a hummingbird feeder on our balcony, and it was in use almost immediately. There are 2 birds that both claim the feeder as theirs, which leads to much bird chatter. Once in a while they’ll stop and rest in a tree close enough that I can get a semi-reasonable picture [...]

A near-by forest fire is kicking up tons of ash and smoke into the air, and wind is blowing it this way. This morning there was a fine layer of ash on everything, and the smoke is creating soft light all throughout the day. Here’s one I shot at the beach in that light. It [...]

Didn’t take any good pictures this week. I did have fun going out to the beach last night, where the tar was flowing freely. Here’s a close-up of one of the falls. I’d like it to be grittier. Maybe I’ll revisit this location in harsher light, or maybe I just need to learn to process [...]

Here’s my entry into fredmiranda.com’s weekly assignment. The current theme is the title of this picture. I like the concept, but I wish I could convey the fact that it is at night, somehow. The best way would be to just use a flashlight as a lightsource, but it’d have to be a beast because [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]