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a song :: a friend to all :: exhale

Jeff — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:49:15 +0000

:: a song ::

:: a friend to all ::

:: exhale ::

watchful. standout. considerate.

Jeff — Mon, 10 May 2010 02:56:26 +0000

:: watchful ::

:: stand out (however possible) ::

:: considering all options ::

sunset in vivo

Jeff — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:03:25 +0000

concerned.

the harsh light of spring

Jeff — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:41:06 +0000

it will blind you if you’re not careful.

lightly toasted marshmallows

Jeff — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:54:03 +0000

so last week at this time I was in glorious downtown San Francisco with my lovely wife and HIGHlarious sister-in-law. as I eluded to in a prior post, we had a great time and prior to landing at Luna Park and drowning ourselves in bottomless-mimosas/blood marys, we strolled through a few shoppes and the mission st thrift store.

before we left, we checked in with cruzer the cat who assured us that he’d keep an eye on shit while we out.

random shops selling random wares kept us busy for a while until the call of bottomless brunch beverages became too strong to resist.

before we left, i found a mirror and snapped one of the only few photos of myself in existence. one quick stop to the local thrift store revealed a cornucopia of random crap including an album i’ve been needing to pickup for my collection.

also, they still have porn available…but you’ve gotta be desperate enough to ask for it…and then look at porn in a thrift store.

at long last we had done enough non-drinking activities to justify stopping by for a quick (read: three-hour-long) drink.

so yeah a day that started with mimosas and fondue ended with mimosas and build-your-own-smores.

i love you, San Francisco.

all i could find were these mountains

Jeff — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:11:34 +0000

so remember yesterday when i got all dressed up in my junior-photographer-snow-gear and drove up to the SoCal mountains? and then it started to rain and I got frustrated? and all i took a photo of was that one yellow fire hydrant?

well, this morning the skies were blue after a week’s worth of storms dissipated. i took advantage of 50F temperatures and sunny skies to inspect the storm’s fallout.

this time i had more luck but all i found were these snow-covered mountains. here’s the best of a few hours of shooting and the rest can be found in this flickr set.

more and more i’m finding that getting away from everything for a few hours and snapping a few photos is very therapeutic.

all i could find was a fire hydrant

Jeff — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:50:09 +0000

so this week’s worth of storms dropped tons of rain and eventually snow in SoCal. i took advantage of a short day at lab and drove 20mi east to snow-drenched mountains in hopes of photo ops.

the roads up the mountains were closed off—even with chains—so I had to resort to parking in the riteaid parking lot and trekking around in my bad ass sorel boots while protecting my camera gear from the elements.

so even though i was decked out in my snow jacket, and was super-excited, the photography conditions were subpar. Everything was grey, washed out and then the freezing rain started and frankly i just didnt care enough to stand out in freezing rain.

so you get a photo of a yellow fire hydrant. sorry.

the rebellious colours

Jeff — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:09:21 +0000

so I left campus a few days early and am enjoying being at home with the pretty girl. despite the fact that southern california doesn’t actually experience autumn, I still dig the cool, wood-burnt smell of my hometown air in late-November.

while I wait for vacation to catch up to my wife’s work schedule, I’ve been playing around with my new lens—a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS. our front yard consistently puts on an autumn spectacle as colors fade from a uniform green to rebellious yellows, oranges and reds.

after shooting these shots for about 15mins, our neighbor came outside and asked, “can I ask why you’re standing underneath the trees with your telescope? can you even see the sky with that thing?”

new toys

Jeff — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:25:32 +0000

so I brought Buster the Dog home a new toy today. it survived about 10mins which equals out to about a dollar per minute. it was totally worth it though b/c he got to have some fun and I got to play around some more with the 70-200mm lens in “action mode”.

you’re welcome.

the most uninterested of subjects

Jeff — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:32:33 +0000

after being very underwhelmed with the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L, I decided to exchange it for the mother of all Canon lenses…the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS.

The good news for Buster was that I needed something/someone to shoot…and well, you know where I’m going with this:

Here’s buster peeking out the back door and being captured sharply at 200mm.

…and here’s Buster acting more bored than I’ve ever seen him.

also, I find these photos funny b/c Buster is unaware of what life is like without having a camera firing at him ad nauseum.