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

But there is something calming about them…

They kind of suck you in…


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

But there is something calming about them…

They kind of suck you in…





Nature, reflected in nature.


I just couldn’t leave this series alone…

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

But now, I’m bushed…


Whooooo!!!

Wheeeee!

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

He could use the paddle for balance.

And keep going when the wave died out.

Wait… is that guy running on water?

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

Yeah, kid!

La Jolla in the murky distance.

The pelicans were still looking for dinner.

My older daughter, Jessica.

And her husband, Jason.

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

Good picture of Jason.

My younger daughter, Mollie.

Texting your boyfriend?

Maybe.

I love my son-in-law.

Okay, bye, beach.

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

More people were in the water than beside it.

It was a little overcast, and very steamy.

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

We had fun.

Other people were having fun too.

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

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

The waves were not very big.

But good surfers can still use small waves…

And they are good for new surfers to practice on.

Or maybe, you just go out past the waves.

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.

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.

I don’t get off work until midnight.

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

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

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

I do try for different patterns.

Street lamp, or space ship from Mars?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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…

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

Tiny flowers.

Decorative landscaping with grasses.

Crows in a eucalyptus tree.

A lot of crows.

I love the telephoto lens.

And birds.

Sunset.

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

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

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

More sunsets.

Sunset through a peppercorn tree.

I do like a nice peppercorn tree.

And sunsets.

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

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

It doesn’t really matter.

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

Not all on the same day.

Or at the same time of the day.

San Diego…

Southern California…

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

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