Thoughts About Sony A77
Well, I’ve owned the A77 for a few months now, and have been shooting as much as I can with it. I’ve got to say, I really enjoy shooting with the A77. Before my trip, I also got the vertical grip for the A77 so that I can shoot verticals without having to hold the [...]
In The Air With Sony Alpha A77
On a recent flight, I had the opportunity to take some photographs from the window seat of the SFO => DFW leg of the flight. Above, is a photograph of a cloud formation I saw. Before seeing that, however, I was able to get a nice shot like the one below: The more I shoot [...]
An Evening With The Sony A77 In Brisbane
My work recently relocated further up north from Palo Alto to Brisbane. While this has increased the distance of my commute and taken my away from readily accessible places to dine and shopping centers, it has given me easy access to some stunningly beautiful scenery along the length of the commute as well as in [...]
Otow Orchard in Granite Bay, California
My brother is up in the Bay Area visiting for the holidays and one of the places we went visiting was the Otow Orchard in Granite Bay, California. This is an amazingly beautiful orchard that specializes in persimmons! The drive up had me going through some very colorful fall color foilage. Upon arriving at the [...]
An Afternoon With The Sony A77 DSLT
I recently got my Sony Alpha A77 DSLT. I’ve been quite anxious about this camera for several reasons: It will be replacing my reliable A700 DSLR There have been serious concerns regarding image quality coming out of the A77 Shipping delays due to flooding in Thailand Firmware issues with shipped units Cameras crashing Fast enough [...]
Chance Encounter With San Jose Skateboarders – Matt & Brian
Just Two Guys With Their Skateboards And a Video Camera While walking about and photographing San Jose, I ran into a couple of skate boarders who were practicing some moves and video taping themselves. I approached them and took some photographs. Like most chance encounters, there is always opportunity to get some great shots. And as [...]
Photography Walk Around San Jose’s City Hall
San Jose City Hall Glass Dome. Amazing Architecture I’ve been posting a bit about various nature preserves and reserves around the California Bay Area. However, there are plenty of man-made areas to take advantage of and enjoy. Case in point, San Jose’s City Hall. If you’ve never been by here, you need to. On a [...]
Prehistoric Gardens, A Hidden Gem For The Inner and Outer Child!
Somewhere, along the highway heading north from California to Oregon, you will find a nice rainforest-like area. And at some point, to the left, you will see a mighty T-rex. Some careful looking will reveal some more dinosaurs peeking from behind the tree canopy. This is Prehistoric Gardens.
Eden… A Project In The Works, The Eden Landing Ecological Reserve
Egret Wading Through Water, Eden Landing Ecological Reserve In California, we seem to always be trying to get things “back to the way they were”. Case in point, the various salt ponds used for taking ocean water and evaporating them until large masses of salt is formed for bulldozing and harvesting. Many of those are [...]
Happy Mistakes… A Panorama of The Gold Gate Bridge
I was recently invited to go watch/photograph the Berkeley Kite Festival with family and was overjoyed, as I was wanting to capture images with bright colors. I also wanted to try capturing some panoramas with kites… However, for some reason, I got turned around and thought the event was happening over in Crissy Field. Yes, [...]
Upgrades, Do I Really Need Them?
I’ve been lusting after the Sony A77 DSLR camera, which is the slated successor to the A700, which I currently shoot with. However, between the economic slump, wanting to save up for bigger and better things for the family, and getting great advice from the likes of Zack Arias to justify everything you spend on, [...]
Another Visit To Don Edwards Nature Center
I’ve got to say, I really love the Don Edwards Nature Center. It’s a great place for a short or long hike, there are Jack Rabbits, Egrets, Swans, Ducks/Geese, etc. It’s almost never packed, and provided you have parked outside of the gates, you can stay till sundown. Don Edwards Nature Preserve My only caveat [...]
Life with an iPad
First off, the iPad is an amazing media consumption device. Whether you are talking about ebooks, images, and/or videos, the iPad rocks. For the price, however, you kind of expect it to. I bought the 64GB wifi iPad. Why not the 3G version? Well, because I already pay for a mobile device and saw no [...]
