Delta Royale

Sometimes things just fit together. Speaking of vintage cars..next week I'm going on a ten day trip to Cuba. I'm stocking up on memory right now.

Windansea

A colleague of mine told me to check out the beach area named Windansea. Even though it's just a few minutes drive from home, I haven't been there yet. Her description was pretty easy: hit the beach when you see the 7-eleven - and here we are.

Sitting Surfer

During the period when I photographed New York City I sometimes got to hear requests to finally start photographing something else. Those voices got pretty quiet when I started photographing the beaches over here in California, but now it starts again from other sides: "enough with the beaches", etc. I guess you have to deal with it until I move to Europe. This will be in less than six weeks.

Sixth Ave

Was about to jump a fence for this one - until I saw the open gate.

Washed Out

Most important things to have for such pictures are a neutral density filter and a heater to dry your shoes later on.

Moonlight Delight

Saw the moon last night? Down here in San Diego the sky was so bright, it seemed like a never ending magic hour - or whatever you call the minutes right after sunset. The dark blue night sky made me walk through my neighborhood a little, and this is what I brought home. You might not expect it, but this picture is not an HDR. It's the combined light from the moon, passing cars, and street lamps. All captured within a single exposure that lasted 30 seconds.

Nuclear Winter

Sorry for the harsh title, I didn't mean to irritate you. But then again, there are a few possible outcomes everybody should be always aware of. In that sense, I think it's perfectly appropriate to make each other feel uncomfortable at times.

Photo Walker

A picture from yesterday's photo walk in La Jolla. The weather wasn't typical California style which even made some people cancel. However the weather was perfect for HDR. I was pretty impressed how curious everybody was to learn the technique. It all ended in a Photoshop session where I showed my processing workflow to my most eager students. Lots of fun - thanks guys!

City in Fog

I'm getting ready for the photo walk tomorrow. I hope some of you are able to join.

La Jolla Photo Walk - Oct. 17

Anyone going to come out and join my photo walk on Sunday? Photographers of all levels are welcome.

Here is the plan: We are going to explore beautiful La Jolla - that's the northern part of San Diego. I thought about it for a while and figured out that this is the very best place for a nice walk. It has a very pretty downtown-ish area and a few steps from there is the ocean front. At the beach we have rocks and cliffs with wildlife including seals, so you might wanna bring your telephoto lens. However, as my mother has proven to me recently, you can also take great pictures there with a pocket camera.
We will meet up at the Living Room Cafe at 4:30, stroll around, and will seek out good positions to shoot the sunset over the ocean at 6:30. I'm looking forward to meeting you and help out in case you have any photography questions.

Who: Photographers of all levels.
When: Sunday, October 17, 4:30 pm
Meetup at: the Living Room Cafe, 1010 Prospect Street La Jolla, CA 92037

I also created a Facebook event for that. Yay!

Now Leasing

Steffi and I were on the fishing pier in Ocean Beach yesterday. There are so many people with huge fishing rods, it makes it easily to keep a low profile when walking with a fully extended tripod.

Foggy San Diego Morning

You don't get such a sky here often, however, on Wednesday night we had in fact a thunderstorm - which is pretty weird. The morning after I had to drop my family to the airport which led to the rare event of me seeing the sun rise.

Now in case this picture confuses you, let me tell you that San Diego is full of little hills with nice homes spread all over the landscape. It allows you to photograph the city in many interesting perspectives. All you need to know is where to go. This one was taken from Mount Soledad.

San Diego Photo Tour?
Because San Diego has so much beauty and so many facets, I'm thinking of offering a photo tour across the city showing you some exciting spots. That would basically be a free event for photographers of all levels to enjoy and photograph the city together. I'm just not sure if anybody who is up for it is reading this. Let me know if you are interested.

Beach Home

The only thing that seemed really photogenic last night. After taking the picture I got to talk to the guy living there. He turned out to be a pro skateboarder.

Beach Rock

Another spontaneous midnight shooting.

Beach Stairs

One exposure of several minutes around midnight.

Neptune Pl

1 AM.

If anything could ever be this good forever

I took this one after work today. From what I heard from the glider pilots the wind was incredibly good today.

Pacific Beach

This spot is within a five minute walk from my current apartment. I just can't stop appreciating this.

La Jolla

A little treat on the way home from work yesterday.

Desktop wallpaper in 1400x900.

Impressionism?

Trying to come up with a good excuse for what I did here. A desaturated Lensbaby HDR from a single RAW file. I spent too much time on it, so that I cannot just not post it..