..took a snap of this biker bar(?) while headed back home on the PCH..
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..odd name for a post, eh? well, the place where i shot this was (as i found out eventually) a nudist beach.. lolz..
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..the way the light struck those fishes on the right makes it seem like shock waves from a supersonic jet..
..skies should be like this every weekend..
..as mentioned by Bob, Morro Bay tends to be foggy & dull.. i experienced the same weather like he did when i visited this place.. oh, and climbing the rock is illegal..
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parched
..a dead tree in the middle of grape vines somewhere in San Luis Obispo..
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golden gate
..so many of you thought that my previous post was taken in SoCal.. but i got it after shooting this one i have here now.. somewhere in marin county.. 🙂
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El Camino
08252010 – oops.. looks like this is the El Camino Real Santa Barbara Mission
..quick, run away from the guy with the big cam!
..can you guess where this was taken?
..i guess i could’ve waited for them to get out of the frame..
*apparently, i haven’t posted any image.. thanks ken! 😀
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century city
..that cluster of building is Century City..
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south-west pavilions
..i think this is gonna be ‘Getty week’..
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blue blinds
..still from the Getty..
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getty blues
..spent a day at the getty..
..this is what i’ve been up to yesterday.. yummy, eh? 😉
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queen mary
..walked quite a bit to get this shot.. whew..
RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (then Cunard-White Star when the vessel entered service). Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be the first of Cunard’s planned two-ship weekly express service from Southampton to Cherbourg to New York, in answer to the mainland European superliners of the late 1920s and early 1930s. After their release from World War II troop transport duties, Queen Mary and her running mate RMS Queen Elizabeth commenced this two-ship service and continued it for two decades until Queen Mary’s retirement in 1967. The ship is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is permanently berthed in Long Beach, California serving as a museum ship and hotel. Queen Mary celebrated the 70th anniversary of her launch in both Clydebank and Long Beach during 2004, and the 70th anniversary of her maiden voyage in 2006. She was the flagship of the Cunard Line from 1936 until 1945 when she was replaced in this role by Queen Elizabeth. (wiki)
..the other side of this place..
..my wife’s cousin, enjoying a day at the beach..
..in shooting tourist traps, when you don’t want people to clutter your shot, you usually do one of these:
- wake up late / early and shoot when no one’s there
- shoot a bunch of shots and do some “magic” in photoshop
- painstakingly clone them out one by one
..in this case, i just left the scene alone and pressed the shutter..
..start them early.. otakus in the making.. they’re cosplaying Inuyasha
photo credit (studentsoftheworld.info)
..here’s Trigun’s Nicholas D. Wolfwood, his death scene was quite touching..
Known for its Space Western theme, Trigun is about a man named “Vash the Stampede” and the twoBernardelli Insurance Society employees who follow him around in order to minimize the damages inevitably caused by his appearance. Most of the damage attributed to Vash is actually caused by bounty hunters in pursuit of the “60,000,000,000$” (sixty billion “double dollars”) bounty on Vash’s head for the destruction of the city of July. However, he cannot remember the incident clearly due to his amnesia. Throughout his travels, Vash tries to save lives using non-lethal force. He is occasionally joined by a priest, Nicholas D. Wolfwood, who, like Vash, is a superb gunfighter with a mysterious past.
..nothing much going on here, just editing & posting photos from last week’s event.. here’s another one..
..haven’t seen this series yet, so i’m not familiar who the character on the left is.. but the one on the right is Yoko Littner (see image below for reference)..
..this one’s for my buddy rex.. ;P
..for reference, here’s how he’s supposed to look like..
..i’ll leave this untitled for now, i’ll do my research later.. my back’s killing me.. XD
..so i eventually went to the Anime Expo here in LA convention center and it was a good thing i did! if you’re into animation and japanese culture and all that, then you’d definitely have fun here.. items are a bit pricey though, but if you bring your camera and just walk the halls, you’d get a lot of great pics of cosplayers.. like this one over here.. 🙂
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tower of the americas
..taken at one of our stops in san antonio, tx.. the view from up there was awesome.. 🙂
..meet our neice, she likes taking pictures (click thumbnail).. 🙂
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boat cap’n
..a tour bout going up (or down?) the san antonio river..
*anybody hitting LA for Anime Expo? i’m thinking of going.. 🙂
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adobe
..adobe establishments in el paso, tx..
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mini gt
..shot a few of my buddy’s scale model classic cars while we were resting in Houston.. here’s a gt 500
..went and saw a free light, pyro & water show at san diego..
*just read this guy’s impression of the show..
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the lord’s day
San Elizario Chapel, as known as La Capilla de San Elcear, was never a mission, but it functioned as a presidio chapel. It provided the religious needs of a presidio or an outpost of military personnel. The presidio was moved to the present site in 1789, to protect travelers and settlers along the Camino Real (Royal Highway) which ran from Mexico City through Juarez City, Mexico then called Paso del Norte to Santa Fe, NM. Its close proximity to the Ysleta and Socorro missions also provided protection for them.When Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821, the military presence at the presidio decreased. By 1848, the presidio had fallen into ruins. Rebuilding efforts began in 1853, with a small church. This proved inadequate and the present structure was completed in 1882. The exterior appearance has ever since changed very little.
..same place where i got the van horn ‘V’ on the mountain side..
..taken somewhere between fort stockton, tx & van horn, tx..
..supersized image (click thumbnail)..
..and for the remaining videos of our road trip..
..third leg, part one, Fort Stockton, TX to El Paso, TX..
..third leg, part two, El Paso, TX to Willcox, AZ..
..fourth leg, part one, Willcox, AZ to Tombstone, AZ
..fourth leg, part two, Tombstone, AZ to Phoenix, AZ..
..fourth leg, part three, Phoenix, AZ to California
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..second leg, part two – san antonio, tx to fort stockton, tx..
..good thing there’s free wifi.. 🙂 here’s a town we passed by along i-10.. van horn, tx..
Van Horn is a town in and the county seat of Culberson County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,435 at the 2000 census.
..second leg, part one (houston, tx to san antonio, tx)
..taken somewhere between san antonio & fort stockton..
..i was also shooting stuff for a video log of the trip.. if you don’t mind getting a headache, then watch them..
first leg, part one (mobile, al to texas border)..
first leg, part two (texas border to houston, tx)..
…well, that’s all folks, bye bye Bama.. 🙂 i’ll be heading west via I-10, any photo tips?
*this is a bandwidth heavy post, that’s one huge supersized image below, and that vid’s pretty big too.. enjoy.. 🙂
Bye Bye Bama from Digitized Chaos on Vimeo.
..some old guy rummaging around in a yard sale..
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whitewall
Whitewall tires or white sidewall (WSW) tires are tires having a stripe or entire sidewall of white rubber.
..we’re celebrating the 112th year of our independence back in the philippines..
..walk with pride.. 🙂
Group of Four Trees, 1969-72ArtistJean DubuffetLocationThe Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza, off Pine Street, between Nassau and William Streets.DescriptionGroup of Four Trees is a black and white sculpture standing just in front of the black and white Chase Manhattan Bank building. The similarities between the sculpture and building, however, stop there. The building’s straight lines and evenly-spaced rows of windows stand in contrast to the irregular surfaces of Group of Four Trees. The forms of the trees are made up of a series of varying planes, all white, and connected together by thick black outlines. The trees’ canopies lean in different directions, and the heights of the four trees are all different, making the viewer’s eye move all around the sculpture, following the many lines that are present.(source)
..was lucky enough to get up close to this jittery bird, i guess this one’s used to us bipeds already..
*SOOC except for the vignette
*changed title, i liked mark‘s comment.. 😀
..git ’em fishes while they’re still fresh..
..the mind is an amazing thing, it makes you see things that aren’t really there.. what did you think of after looking at this tree?
..a Dunlin (in between breeding & intermediate plumage), taken a month ago, that part of the beach is closed now..
Dunlins are sparrow-sized sandpipers with long, black, droopy bills and relatively long, black legs. In breeding plumage, Dunlins are comparatively easy to identify because of the conspicuous black belly patch and rufous cap and mantle. In the nonbreeding season, they are plain gray-brown on their upper parts and white below. A prominent white wing stripe, seen in flight, is present in all plumages.
..back in nyc i had the habit of gazing up and thinking of cool stuff to shoot, but here in alabama, this is what i see when i look up.. 🙂