Mother's Day - Part 2

Mom

Mother's Day Part 1 - Food

Morning Cooking

Stripped Bass from Lake Pyramid

Carrots from Farmers Market

Beef from Butchers

This weekend in pictures

Been super busy this weekend with the house flooding over and all but I did get to take prom pictures.

Here's a few of my favorite and one that I snapped just because the light was just so darn golden

Goodbye f/1.8...Hello f/1.4

When I got my 50mm f/1.8 lens,
I thought that was it.

It was fast
The bokeh was silky smooth
Great in low light...

And then I met the f/1.4

It was faster
The bokeh was even more silky
And it was absolutely amazing in low light.

What does one extra f stop mean?
Twice the lens opening = half the time it takes to take a picture
So next to no light is the new low light.

I am very excited for this lens, going to break it in taking baby pictures.

Next up on the list:

Get rid of my 55-200mm VR lens
And get either an 18-105mm ($250)
or 16-85mm vr lens ($500)

Decisions decisions...let's go Citibank!

Bokeh

"bokeh is the blur, or the æsthetic quality of the blur"

North Etiwanda Preserve

I woke up this morning at 4:30 to go on a hike before sunrise.

The light before sunrise was absolutely beautiful.

I am falling more and more in love with this Pentax.

Sunflower facing the sunrise at 6 am

Tree stump

Agave spines

Sunflower at 9 pm

Black and White

Dear Ansel Adams,

I love that you and I both share the love for the same things.

Baby Shower!

This weekend in pictures

I took a walk through the local state park in the evening right after work and managed to take just a few black and white pictures in the evening light.
Evening light + overcast + black and white = beautiful gray

Need to get away

I honestly cannot express how much I would like to have a day to myself to go and take pictures.

I want to go to Joshua Tree or the Poppy Reserve or back to Death Valley or Downtown LA - the list goes on and on.

Just one day would be nice...

This weekend

It's going to rain this weekend so let's up the ISO and take some grainy black and white pictures!

May head out to the desert for a quick shoot.

Because I love them so much...

Pentax K1000

Otto and Boris (Brothers)

So I just developed my first roll from my Pentax K1000 w/ ISO 800 film.

Much more grainy than I would like but I did learn that I need to replace my light seals which isn't as bad as it sounds but I simply loved the pictures that I got with the 28mm lens.

Amber

Cali

Cali and Amber

Cali and his birthday present

This weekend in pictures...

My Favorite!

I have a roll of film from my Pentax that I need to get developed but until then here are some baby pictures!

Self Portrait

Photo Project for this week is...Self Portrait.

I have no idea who this is!!!
But I found it in my drive.

Love