under the bridge

this is one my favorite spots in my city. unfortunately it's closed to public a lot and when is open it's got loads of tourists which it makes it hard to take pictures without them. it's also super windy so i have to try and hold my camera real still so my shots are in focus. i love this city and the golden gates that make it unique.

especially since i like trees.

so i have always thought that i was a lover of clouds and i'm not saying that i'm not but i have way more pictures of trees than clouds. i have specifically been trying to post cloud pictures the last few post and looking through my computer but keep finding these awesome tree pics. anyways i took this in stern grove a few years ago. i like pretending i'm an ant when i take these pictures to try and grasp the grandness of trees.

same pic... kinda

this was taken with my point and shoot a few christmases ago. I was walking along embarcadero center and saw this beautiful red leafed tree. so i grabbed my handy camera and shot away. it was a newer camera so i played around with the options and came up with these two similar shots!

my dock

this is one of favoritest places from my childhood. spring lake in santa rosa. and these are my favoritist photos i have taken there. shot with black and white film developed cheaply at walgreens making it look more sepia than black and white, then scanned giving it bad edges but i still like them.

old redwoods or some simular type of tree

i found this photo while i was pretty pathetically trying to organize my photos in my computer. I not 100% sure but i think this was taken on the old 101. My mom took me along there on the way home from a eureka trip once a few years ago. it pretty amazing being surrounded by so many huge red wood trees and this photo gives that small feeling.

wearing glasses in the rain

The other day i was driving and it started to drizzle. It then started to rain. Then my sister being a round the bush back seat driver asked if i didn't use my windshield wipers because i wear glasses and is used to rain drops on them when it rains. it is true i do not use my wipers mostly because i like watching the rain drops race in which ever directions not because of my sisters glasses theory. anyways was playing around i took this picture and thought of that story so i wanted to share how i see on a rainy day.

santa cruz!

santa cruz ca on a rainy day! beautiful! ok so i still don't really know what i'm doing with my camera but some this shots are still cool. it was super windy and about to rain so not much light and reall hard to hold my camera still but i had lots of fun and will go back soon with my owners manuel so i can figure this camera out! (thanks to my friends for their patience while i was taking all these shots!)

some photos from paris

I was able to go to paris in 2007 with some of my family. I can not complain but will not say it was an ideal trip, my camera was my only salvage. my favorite spot was a super old cemetery, mostly because there were barely any tourist. monets garden was spectacular but cluttered with people! that tower was crazy to see around town but not worth the many elevators to the top and back. I was abe to take many many photos which makes me very happy!

dancing lady

this is one of my besties, harper! she loves dancing and i need a little more drinks in me to go dancing so she had to dance alone but she didn't mind. I kinda love the blur motions right now. the shots i got were mostly blurred do to how much i was laughing not how much i was drinking. but i guess if i had more to drink i'd be dancing too and then there would be no pictures at all. I thought this pic would be appropriate for a saturday night post.

today!

just walking around the city i found these wonderful images! Pretty spectacular day if i do say so myself.

green and little purple

i dedicate this post to my sister for fixing our miserable internet problem! I love my new camera after looking at old pictures from my pig snout (point n shoot sony) and comparing them to nigel (nikon d80) shoot no contest! I will always prefer film and will never stop using milton (my minolta.) anyways this picture was behind me when i was sitting on a bench at the park with my nephew but i stretched around to capture some magnificence.

street light lighting

walking home the other night these trees caught my eye so i grabbed my point n shoot from my purse and shot away. using the camera flash was so so wrong so I went with the street light and i loved it! (by the way it took like 3 days to upload this!)

is there an h in karma?

so I am thinking I have some pretty whack karma right now. just waiting now to what other messed up thing is gonna happen to me. i can't upload pictures today again, i think yesterdays upload was pure luck. wait i don't have the good kind of luck and i guess all of i did have i used to upload yesterdays pic! bah bum bug to all you it's gonna get better people!

senor y senorita pericosa

these are my friends anabela and jued. they are getting married this october and asked if i would take their engagement picture. so we went to the place where they're getting hitch and walked around and took pictures of the happy couple. it was loads of fun and a good learning experiance for me. as my friends i was really comfortable with them but realized after how much coaching goes into photographing people. they are truely an amazing couple and am grateful for the experience that they gave me.

Air Hockey

Here's my sister playing air hockey! I had to capture this when I saw it. We were in Vegas and found this arcade in a back corner of some casino. Those were good times!

rainy days!!!

I looooovvvee me some rain! One problem though, I totally refuse to take my camera out in the rain. I still get mad inspiration seeing pictures I just don't have any device to capture the images so they live in my head where they just can't be shared.

grrr

a picture a day makes the sadness go away... but I can't post any pictures with a crappy internet connection!!!

players like cars

ok I took this picture the day I bought my new camera and I didn't know how to use it but I love this shot anyways. Those boys move so fast I had the camera set on action but it didn't matter I still got unclear pictures. That's part of why I like this though because most basketball shots try to be clear but to capture the movement reminds me of those street shots where the car lights are blurred but they're people not cars! (he made the shot)

yellow grass

I took this picture today while going on a walk in the neighborhood. It was one those times when the light was just right and was so glad I had my camera with me.

looking down

looking down as the waves crash with full force underneath me then slowly pulls back building up strength for its next blow to the dock i think to myself i wish i could be powerful like the sea...