Mannequins in the window of Trashy Lingerie

The originals here were cool, but a little flat, so I decided to take things in a more heavily-processed direction.

Before

 

After

Before

After

Two more after-the-rain pictures

Rose after rain in LA

A Light Drink

And here's the shot before any processing, where you can see the tripod that the flash was sitting on. I painted the tripod out in Photoshop, and also lightened the shot a little, and pushed it towards a warmer, yellow/magenta tonality that seemed to give it a little more of a "magical" look.

Flowers and Tree in Toluca Lake

Guard with cars at Griffith Observatory

I may have tinkered with this a little...

Portrait of Lauren

Lauren visited LA for the first time!  Here she is being a matinee idol:

New Song - "Oncilla"

Wrote a new song this weekend.  It had this jungly, South American sound to me so I named it after the oncilla, which is a small wild cat that lives in the Amazon.

Hope you like it!

New Song: I'll Never Be Through

I watched a tutorial about using Pro Tools' step sequencer, and used it to create this tune.

The robot will dance for you:

If the embedded player doesn't work, just click here.

Jeanne's Face; Jeanne's Foots

Asia Ray Eating Fire at the Venice Beach Freakshow

Saw a great sideshow act down in Venice, and caught this image of one of the performers, Asia Ray, eating fire.  Yikes/yowza!  It was a great show and I definitely recommend it.

Sean's Cliff Kicker Shoot

Today I got to put the camera down and just model for a real photographer: my buddy Sean Goodman.  The lovely Jodi Rae Santosuosso was the other model.  Brother Patrick rigged the safety rope, held the reflector, and kept the flash from falling off the cliff.   

Here are a couple of the shots that Sean got:

And here are some of the behind-the-scenes stills.

 

 

Moon!

Kiron 200mm lens at f32 w. 2x teleconverter; 1/15s

More La Brea Tar Pits/LACMA Pictures

Karen and I had so much more fun at the Tar Pits than we do working on facility management software...imagine!











 

 

Bison at La Brea Tar Pits Museum

Karen with Dire Wolves

Karen at the La Brea Tar Pit museum with display of dire wolf skulls.

Skateboarders in Venice

Jeanne and I watching skateboarding in Venice

We may have been the cutest climbing partners in Venice today...

Thomas and Jeanne Spinning in Venice

Weeee!

Silt in LA River

Melissa GIF

Melissa on a streetcar in San Francisco, October 2010.

Megan Dietz

I realized I'd forgotten to ever post the rest of the pictures Megan and I took a few weeks ago.

Oops!

Anyways, here are some of my favorites.  They were shot mostly in Griffith Park, and some in my neighborhood in Hollywood.