Been a gear head all my life. I love all the mechanical bits on vintage motorcycles. This is a detail shot of the carburetor area from my Son’s 1954 Norton single. It’s on display in his living room. Cool!
A lazy Saturday morning strolling the streets of Orange. Part of our ritual is lunch at Watsons Drugstore. The real deal dating back 80 years with a great counter and soda fountain. The wife is enjoying her chocolate malt. I suddenly realize that there is color everywhere in front of me and take the picture spontaneously. Trying to stay in that constant state of photography.
Friday evening strolling up the boulevard to dinner. The setting sun was dazzling in our eyes. Casting the most amazing long shadows of other pedestrians on the sidewalk. My D-Lux 5 camera can take video. I just couldn’t resist capturing the moment.
Click this for short video. >>> Wilshire Sun Walk (Takes about 10 seconds to download.)
look down, look all around. I was given that corny sounding advice by a photography
instructor years ago. He was teaching us to break out of our normal mode
of only photographing things as we encounter them directly in front of us.
I read another tip that suggested to turn around from the scene you’re
planning to photograph and see if the scene behind you is better or more
interesting. Both tips are prompting us to look outside our normal
boundaries of seeing. Good advice. This photograph was taken as I was
walking down a flight of stairs in an old office building. I was looking
down the stairs for a picture. I happened to look up and saw this window
in the stairwell. I liked what I saw and took the picture.
The Monterey Aquarium on New Years Day. Extraordinary way to enter and experience another world. More to say but just look at the wonderful organic shapes and colors for now…
At a favorite antique hardware store where they let me roam around with my camera. A basket of blue doorknobs turns into a feast of color. I’m getting married soon in a room above this store. It’s amazing where my camera takes me….
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