Project 365 : 85/365 – Long Beach Sunset
I am happy to announce that I not only got out of my house but I got more than a block away from our front door today for today’s photograph. I headed across the street to the beach for a walk with my D90. Long Beach isn’t known for being all that scenic but with the weather warming up, I felt that this would be a fun photograph for the day.
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Project 365 : 3/365 – Long Beach Farmers Market
It has been a while, but Miranda and I finally made it down to the Farmers Market in the marina this morning. The place is packed with amazing fruits and vegetables from dozens of certified organic local farms. It is hard for me to believe that this was the first time that I brought a camera with me in the three years that I have been shopping there.
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Portrait Session : Carrie
On Friday I held the first of the five free portrait sessions that I offered last week with my friend Carrie. We had a lot of fun bouncing between a few locations in downtown Long Beach and Carrie was great to photograph.
Here are some of my favorite photographs from the session:
A special ‘thank you’ goes out to my wife Miranda for all her assistance during the session.
Lola at the Dog Beach – Long Beach, CA
My wife and I have been taking Bailey and Lola to the dog beach over the past few weeks and while Bailey is still a bit shy of the water, Lola isn’t. While playing with a friend’s dog yesterday, she hauled off into the ocean several times followed by sprints in the sand. As you can see in the photographs, she was covered in sand but quite happy.
Photographs From The 2009 Long Beach Marathon
Saturday morning I invited you to join me on a challenge of taking 1000 photographs over the weekend.
I got off to a fast start on Saturday morning by taking over 150 photographs of our puppies playing on the local dog beach. I was soon sidetracked as the remainder of the day was spent buying new furniture and painting our home (the place looks great!) followed by dinner with friends in Hollywood leaving me behind on where I wanted to be with this exercise by the end of the day.
Sunday started anew with the 2009 Long Beach Marathon taking place right in front of our house. I started out still in my pajamas photographing the runners as they passed by for at least twenty minutes before I realized that it might be a good idea to go back inside and get dressed before going any further. I popped back out with my bag and moved around the parts of the course around my house as well as on the paved path on the beach taking over 600 photographs in the process.
While photographing a marathon that was happening right outside of my door was not exactly what I had in mind for the challenge that I had issued myself, it was a wonderful opportunity to photograph an event that I probably would have skipped over. It was also nice because I am still a little phobic of photographing people.
Here are the photographs from the event. They can also be viewed here
As I said before, this was not exactly what I had in mind for the challenge but I was able to spend some time with my camera nonetheless. I will definitely be giving this challenge a go next weekend.
If you took a “shot” at this yourself, please comment below with a link to your gallery.
Drum Circle @ The Art Walk : Long Beach, CA
A few weeks ago the Mrs. and I stopped by the art walk that occurs on the second Saturday of each month in downtown Long Beach. While some of the stores and galleries on the surrounding streets extend their hours for the night, the majority of the event takes place on Linden Avenue between 1st Street and Broadway .
Here is a gallery of some of the photographs that I took of the drum circle that was going on early in the evening when we arrived.
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On a personal note, I am putting things together over the next few weeks to start to participating each month with my own table of prints for sale. I will keep you posted.
