clouds on Oxymoronical

Mobbed

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:23:11 +0000

It’s a common sight in California. A red tailed hawk just minding his own business and along come a bunch of crows to chase them off.

Bay bridge at night

Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:38:33 +0000

Long exposure night photos are one of my favourite things to do. They’re tricky, you have to be perfectly still so normally a tripod is needed. And often you won’t know how it turns out until you do it a few times. The human eye (and brain) is so much better at processing what it sees and generating a great image compared to a feeble lens and sensor. So this photo was kind of ridiculous. A 3 minute exposure, hand held thought stabilised against a windowsill, and I had to lean so far out of the window to get it that my wife had to hang on to me to make sure I didn’t fall out.

Flying overhead

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:37:11 +0000

After NASA decommissioned the space shuttles the Endeavour as flown to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. As part of the trip it did a low flyby over the NASA Ames Research Center and to celebrate they opened their doors for an afternoon of events and the chance to watch the shuttle fly by. We were lucky enough to be living locally at the time, and be on their mailing list having attended a previous event. It’s really something to see a space shuttle mounted to the back of a jumbo jet fly so close overhead.

Explosion in the sky

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:14:18 +0000

One of our early homes was a condo on the top floor of a 6 storey building with a balcony. In California you very frequently get fantastic sunsets. It is one of the things I miss about the place. I applied a lot of processing to this to make it look even more moody than it actually was but I love the end result.