At Seattle Daily Photo, Kim does a regular “iPhone Wednesday” feature. I keep meaning to give it a try. (Hey, she said I could, so it’s not stealing.) But except for my pseudo-Monets I haven’t knocked my own iPhone socks off yet. But John has. I love his reverse Santas. He photographed them inside and [...]
I’m peeking out from behind the door at Merit Dry Cleaners toward the sidewalk rack outside Ritzy Rags resale shop. Though I love resale shops I haven’t been in Ritzy Rags yet. From the Yelp reviews it sounds like the kind of place where you have to dig. I don’t mind digging, that’s part of [...]
Zen Monday is the day you experience the photo and give us your thoughts rather than me telling you what I think the photo’s about. There’s no right or wrong. It means what you think it means, or what you want it to mean. I look for a photo worth contemplating or, failing that, something [...]
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The dogs are running somewhere, and somewhere cats don’t bite, And somewhere it’s not raining, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Pooville — Boz refuses to go out. My apologies to Ernest Thayer. Read the Full Story at Pasadena Daily [...]
I shot this on Lombardy Road in San Marino before the rain hit. It’s probably all mushy now. I hadn’t meant to go that way but I was doubling back to go somewhere else, and figured I’d try a different route than my usual. Note to self: unusual route = better chance of striking gold. [...]
Pasadena’s got a church just about everywhere you look. They’re in brightly painted houses obtrusive and un, strewn throughout residential neighborhoods and business districts, competing for attention with liquor stores, shopping malls and each other. If you’re a Christian, by gosh by golly and by God, we’ve got whatever you need. If you’re a Jew [...]
I’m learning how to white-balance with my new-to-me camera. It’s taking some doing. Both of these images are altered; I had to do the work in post because I didn’t get it right in the first place. The one on the left is the most accurate. Not perfect, though. Still a little too green. What [...]
Before I moved here I didn’t know many published authors. But in Pasadena you can practically see at night by the literary lights. First I’ll tell you about Roberta Martinez so you can immediately mark your calendar for an event at Vroman’s Bookstore tomorrow evening. Roberta and her friend Patrick Conyers will present and sign [...]
According to Google (and where else would I get my weather information?) it got to as low as 37 degrees in Pasadena sometime in the last 24 hours. I bundle up so much you’d never know I lived in northern Illinois for much of my life. The only person in our family who dislikes the [...]
Zen Monday is the day you experience the photo and give us your thoughts rather than me telling you what I think the photo’s about. I look for a photo worth contemplating or, failing that, something odd or silly. And I stay out of the comments box for most of the day to avoid influencing [...]
