This shot was from a quick trip out to Joshua Tree NP. I was hoping to run into some thunderstorms with some lightning but just a few clouds formed and no real storms. I did take a lot of timelapse shots that will probably get used in something, fun to watch the clouds building, amazing how fast they build and change. While I was waiting for the timelapse sequences I walked around took a few pics with the Fuji X-Pro 1. Converted to black and white using Silver Efex Pro 2. Hope you enjoy it.
I love watching sunsets and ones that get all kinds of nice colors and clouds can be especially nice, I never get tired of watching sunsets. Here is a sunset from Wed. evening that was pretty cool, some nice colors and then a few minutes later it all changes. Taken with the Fuji X-Pro 1, the first was taken with the 35mm f1.4 and the second was with the 18mm f2.0. Both are very minimal processing, pretty much just straight out of the camera. Enjoy.
Went and saw the cheetah run at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, pretty fun to watch, although it was very hot and very humid. It was not great day for running so the cheetah only did one run, which was too bad. The course was 100 meters, this run was done in 5.92 seconds, not their fastest time, but certainly fast enough. Taken with a Canon 1DM4 and a 80-200mm f2.8L lens. The running shot is cropped from the original frame. The portrait shot was not. Enjoy.
Delicate wispy clouds, softly lit by the setting sun….. this weeks subject. Taken with a Fuji X-Pro 1 and 35mm f1.4 lens at f4, 1/75 second at ISO 200. The sun was well below the horizon and the immediate area around the horizon was muddy looking and not very interesting, but almost straight up we ended up getting this nice soft pastel palette to finish off the day. Hope you enjoy it.
This is a re-edit of an image from the Huntington, actually 3 images, done as an HDR, I wanted to try out some new techniques. Taken at the Huntington Library gardens, using the Fuji X-Pro 1, 35mm f1.4 lens at f8.
Some cypress leaves at the Fullerton Arboretum. Taken with a Fuji X-Pro 1, 60mm macro lens, f2.4 and 1/280, ISO 200. Took me awhile to get a decent shot of the hanging leaves there was light breeze so they kept swinging around. Enjoy.
Hard to believe half the year has gone by, I guess that is the sign of getting older, time flies! Here is this week’s image, it was more an experiment but I like how it came out. I got an adapter for my Fuji X-Pro 1 to use my Canon lenses, so this is taken near Temecula with the X-Pro 1 and a Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens, taken at f2.8 and a 30 second exposure at ISO1600. I thought it turned out pretty well, the yellowish glow in the bottom right is the light pollution dome from San Diego. The summer Milky Way always a neat thing to see. Enjoy.
Roaming around the garden I found these and the light was nice in the late afternoon. Taken with the Fuji X-Pro 1, 60mm lens at f5.4 and 1/4000 exposure. Sometimes it is fun just to walk around the garden and see what you can find, you never now what you may find. Enjoy.
Here are some images from the Venus transit, which occurred on June 5, 2012. These were taken from Santa Ana, CA on the top level of a parking structure. I used my Canon 1D M4 with a 100-400mm at 400mm and a 1.4x which gave me a focal length of 560mm, these are crops of the image, taken using a solar filter. You can see several sunspots in addition to Venus as it moved across the face of the sun. These were taken over a period of about 3 hours. Hope you enjoy them, click on the images to see larger versions.
On the boardwalk at Main Beach, Laguna Beach, CA, little bit of sand, a little bit of fog and mist and just another beach morning. Taken with a Fuji X-Pro 1 with a Canon 50mm f1.4 FD lens using a Kipon adapter.
