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Lights along the path

Argos — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:04:47 +0000

You can take the boy out of the southwest, but you can’t take (all) the southwest out of the boy: One handy thing about being an “expatriate” New Mexican is that you can set up luminarias (or to be fussy, farolitos) almost anywhere. Courtesy of a snow storm a few days ago, this year [...]

Icy blue reflections

Argos — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:33:23 +0000

One of the really nice extras of the holiday season from a photographer's perspective is that a lot of places put on special shows for a few weeks...

Crystalkeh

Argos — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:03:02 +0000

One of the things I’ve tried to habitually think of is taking shots with my crystal ball. So when I went on the photowalk through the Denver Zoo a few weeks back, I tried it out here and there. Note to self: steadily hand-holding a crystal ball for long-exposure photography in sub-freezing weather isn’t all that [...]

Low-key sunrise

Argos — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:30:48 +0000

On the return leg of our recent Hawaii vacation, I was on a red-eye flight — great if you can figure out how to sleep on a plane, not so great if you’re tall enough that you’re essentially shoe-horned into your coach-class seat (thanks, United!). At least my lack of sleep meant I was awake [...]

Warp Christmas

Argos — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:24:21 +0000

I haven't really played much with zooming a lens in the middle of taking an image -- but since I was taking long-duration tripod shots on my recent night excursion to the Denver Zoo, thought it was a good time to start...

Blue Christmas

Argos — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:08:18 +0000

A shot from a recent nighttime photowalk at the Denver Zoo...

Pele’s workshop

Argos — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:36:34 +0000

Since you never really know who’s reading your blog, I’ve thought it best to talk about travel only after I’ve returned home from it. So now I can start telling you about a family vacation we just wrapped up in Hawaii. The lead-off shot — lava reaching the sea on the “big island” of Hawaii: [...]

Land of broken shadows

Argos — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:34:43 +0000

One last shot (for a while) from Santa Fe: I saw this and just was struck by the odd (if somewhat subtle) difference between the geometry of the railing and that of its shadow. I didn’t have to do much to this shot other than tweak the saturation a bit. The odd break in [...]

Radiating shadows

Argos — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:15:27 +0000

On our recent trip back to New Mexico, we managed to stay a night and a day in Santa Fe...

Whee!

Argos — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:31:00 +0000

So what's a guy to do when he's out of town on a business trip, and spends all his daylight hours in meetings?

Roar

Argos — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:33:41 +0000

I saw this nice piece of sculpture outside the Asia Pacific Museum in Pasadena, California...

Sprawling

Argos — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:43 +0000

More Boston fireworks goodness...

Shooting fireworks in Boston

Argos — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:21:43 +0000

Yes, it’s been a few weeks — but still, I thought it would be helpful for me (and possibly others) in the future to document how / where I photographed fireworks on the 4th of July this year in Boston. So if you run across this page in 2010 or 2011, howdy from the not-too-distant past! Anyway, [...]

Journey’s end

Argos — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:51:33 +0000

I've been away on a long family vacation -- but now I'm back and can tell you all about it, and I have the pictures to show for it....

The shape of reflected glories

Argos — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:35:29 +0000

Just one of the colorful sights you can see walking along the Seattle waterfront...

City ablaze

Argos — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:44:51 +0000

A shot of downtown Seattle, taken from the Space Needle shortly before they chased us all off the observation deck...

Left for cyberspace

Argos — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:16:12 +0000

What can I say? I just love neon when it's done right...

Warped Boulevard

Argos — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:37:58 +0000

Right now I’m in the midst of a bunch of travel — both for work and (a bit less) for fun. It’s leaving me frazzled, but at least it also means I’m getting some interesting photographic opportunities. This is a shot I took using a Lens Baby in Pasadena, CA: I thought the title [...]

East Terrace

Argos — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:16:21 +0000

Another shot of L.A. at night, from the East Observation Terrace of the Griffith Observatory...

Venus over the dome

Argos — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:52:55 +0000

Another L.A. shot, also from the Griffith Observatory -- I primarily wanted to capture the darkening sky, but also some of the people looking out from the East Observation Terrace...