Mirror mirror off the wall… part 12…

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I wasn’t going to do more mirror images of flowers…

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But there is something calming about them…

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They kind of suck you in…

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Mirror mirror off the wall… part 11…

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Nature, reflected in nature.

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Mirror mirror off the wall… part 10…

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I just couldn’t leave this series alone…

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Once an idea gets planted in my head, I can’t root it out…

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But now, I’m bushed…

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Son of a beach!!!… part 2… also, the final part…

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Whooooo!!!

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Wheeeee!

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The paddle board guy had some real advantages. The board is bigger and more buoyant.

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He could use the paddle for balance.

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And keep going when the wave died out.

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Wait… is that guy running on water?

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Small waves and water like glass. Lot’s of waiting.

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Yeah, kid!

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La Jolla in the murky distance.

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The pelicans were still looking for dinner.

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My older daughter, Jessica.

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And her husband, Jason.

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She made me take a picture with her ‘ice cream hat’.

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Good picture of Jason.

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My younger daughter, Mollie.

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Texting your boyfriend?

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Maybe.

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I love my son-in-law.

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Okay, bye, beach.

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Son of a beach!!!… part 1…

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Both my daughters are in town, so we had a picnic down at the beach.

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More people were in the water than beside it.

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It was a little overcast, and very steamy.

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This is in San Diego, in Southern California, if you forgot… or didn’t know.

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We had fun.

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Other people were having fun too.

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I can’t tell if the pelicans were having fun. They were still at work, I think.

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I decided I would have fun taking photos of people having fun.

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The waves were not very big.

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But good surfers can still use small waves…

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And they are good for new surfers to practice on.

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Or maybe, you just go out past the waves.

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Light moves… the final chapter… for now…

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Light moves… part 2…

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Light moves… part 1…

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I should have called this ‘workin’ on those light moves’, like a play on the song ‘Night Moves’. Obviously, these are just more of those photos I take where I use the long shutter opening in dim lighting to move the camera around while pointing at lights at varying distances, to see what I end up with.

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I took all of these with my real camera when I brought it to work last weekend, to my job as a private security guard at a bio-pharm research lab.

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I don’t get off work until midnight.

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And I have to walk patrols around and through a few buildings, so I am outside a lot.

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There are a lot of lights around, at various distances.

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So I figured I would walk around, waving my camera in the air like an idiot.

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I do try for different patterns.

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Street lamp, or space ship from Mars?

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I just like how I never know how long the shutter will stay open, so I have no way to know out how much wiggling I can do.

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Okay, that one isn’t a flying saucer. That is just the plug on an electric car recharging post.

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These aren’t as exciting as the ones I took when I was visiting my older daughter in New York City, but still…

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I have about two more posts worth of these. I might save the best few and do some digital magic with them, but not before I get to the pictures I took at the beach last night.

 

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Pictures… of stuff… and things… and whatnot…

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More photos I took at my job as a security guard in Southern California.

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Once again, this is a mix of images from my real camera and my phone camera. I think the first half is the real camera. On the hummingbird, notice that you can’t see the red neck flash from the side…

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But when she turns toward you, the sun reflects off the shiny feathers.

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Tiny flowers.

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Decorative landscaping with grasses.

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Crows in a eucalyptus tree.

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A lot of crows.

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I love the telephoto lens.

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And birds.

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Sunset.

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Speaking of birds, I spotted this scruffy little guy on a car as I pulled in to work in my car.

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I think he is a juvenile seagull, still getting hes feathers in order.

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You do not want a seagull to spend too much time on top of your car.

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More sunsets.

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Sunset through a peppercorn tree.

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I do like a nice peppercorn tree.

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And sunsets.

 

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Clouds… because everybody loves clouds, right?

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Clouds reflected in glass. Some of these I took with my camera, and some with the camera on my phone… in my phone?

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I guess if you can’t tell which is which…

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It doesn’t really matter.

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I took all of these at my job as a private security officer.

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Not all on the same day.

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Or at the same time of the day.

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San Diego…

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Southern California…

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Speaking of which, the kids are in town, and tonight we went to the beach for a picnic.

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I have some great surfer shots coming soon. But not too soon.

 

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