Walking Around Snapshots

Found Objects 3-26-2012

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Found Objects 3-26-2012

Haven’t posted one of these walking-the-dogs snapshot series in a while. I like taking “the kids” out for a walk around the neighborhood, slip in an iPod earbud, get caught up on the podcasts. Time to think, look around. Sometimes the light is just so beautiful, it makes me wish I had the Canon 7D and a simple tripod that I can just sling over the shoulder to stop + set up + record some footage. Got to work on that. If anybody has some suggestions, I’d like to hear them. At least, having the Android smart phone, I’ve...

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Light Is My Friend: Hollywood Park Alley

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Light Is My Friend: Hollywood Park Alley

This is part of my on-going photography studies of how light plays on familiar places where we live. Almost every day, or at least every other day, I’ll walk the dogs either from the house or back to the house by way of this alley that runs behind Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento. The dogs love it for the smells — there are three Chinese restaurants in this one strip mall. Photographically, I’m always drawn to the visual texture of the brick walls, the various shades of paint, or lack of, on them, the cracks, as well as the different...

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Light Is My Friend

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Light Is My Friend

I generally find harsh sunlight to be the ugliest light of all, but this morning, for some reason, it was amazing. Perhaps because it was early and there was just enough humidity in the air to allow a little filtration in the air. I shot these while walking the dogs around the neighborhood. I normally keep my Nikon Coolpix pocket camera in with me for grabbing pictures on-the-go, but for some reason I felt compelled to hang the Canon 7D around my neck with the super-wide Tokina 11-16 f2.8 lens. The distortion that the sideness of the lens creates...

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Morning Light & Color – Walking Hollywood Park

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Morning Light & Color – Walking Hollywood Park

As much as I’d like to stay in bed and keep warm on these increasingly chillier autumn mornings, duty calls. In this case, walking the dogs. As I’ve posted in the past, for those who’ve been following this site, my wife Bonnie and I have two retired greyhounds, Alex and Ava, ages 5 and 7 respectfully. They led lives as working dogs so retirement has not come easily to them. So every morning they rise with the sun and need to go to work, meaning one of us has to throw on some clothes and head out the door...

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Retro Camera – Walking Hollywood Park

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Retro Camera – Walking Hollywood Park

Thinking of calling this “Smart Art” — taking art photos with your smart phone. When I take our dogs Ava and Alex out for walks around the neighborhood (we live in a section of Sacramento called Hollywood Park, just across from South Land Park) I always carry my Android phone with me. You never know when you’re going to have an emergency or see something and need to make a phone call. So far, thankfully, that hasn’t happened. But I always like carrying a camera with me and the Android has a cool photo app called Retro Camera, that...

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