Key West - The other side

Ususally when you go to Key West, Florida you come home with pictures of the aqua and teal colored water or Duval Street or maybe photos of the lush tropical plants you see all over the island or the fabulous architecture lining the streets of this sometimes quaint town. I am looking for those photos but the star of my photographs so far is a baby chicken who remains nameless at this time. Surely she/he will get a name that will suit one who lives in a palace, is fed delicacies of corn chips and mango and has playtime in a yard filled with feathered friends and bugs galore. This little chicken just showed up at my friend Kathy's door (as goes the story we hear for all the other animals she has adopted) just two weeks ago. Anyway - this is Chicken doing the Key West kick it on the couch with me at kathy's house.

Shoe on a Roof

I have seen shoes is the strangest places and have thought of doing a series on just that. This may be the first photo in the collection.

Balloon Destiny

I shot this photo while waiting for an identity theft presentation to begin. I love it when I can look past my hands and see something that intrigues me.

Faces

I had 6 or 7 or maybe more assignments today - It has been so slow lately but today was crazy busy. One of my assignments was to photograph a mental disability support center open house. I was worried I would come away with someone chompin' on some free food or a speaker standing behind a microphone in front of a small crowd. I looked a little deeper and saw this.

Slow

I guess my creative juices are running low. I haven't shot anything I felt deserved an upload to my blog. So in the interest of keeping this fresh and moving forward I am sharing a photo I took of my cats. Uh oh - resorting to family pets. Perhaps not a path I want to go down. On the other hand maybe it will inspire me to push myself a little.

Anyway - this is AJ and Bean delving into treats.

Reflect

We all need to take a moment to reflect on our new sneaks. Actually, I think this little guy might be wondering if he got the right left.

Same Event, Different Year

Every year on Good Friday actors perform a re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross in Watsonville, the town in which I work. I like covering this event. I know what to expect in terms of the flow of the performance and I enjoy the challenge of finding a new angle, a new way to show the actors and the thousands of people who come out to watch the show.

Cell phone photo

What do you do when you consider yourself a photographer and you forget your camera and you are too lazy to buy a disposable - well, I guess you pull out the ol' cell phone. Though it is cool that you can record visual moments with your phone, the process of getting them into some sort of archive - be it online or print is arduous and time consuming. The picture quality from my phone is fine for the web. I am sure there are phones out there that produce much better quality photos but really when it comes down to it - I would rather have the tool that was built to be an image maker. This photo of fireworks at the San Francisco Giants opening night at AT&T park Wednesday night is right off the phone with no touch ups.

Speck

This is Speck - she travels with her own bed which she stole from a couple of cats. She kicked it with us at the beach yesterday. It was a great day - scrabble, football, kite flying, friends, food, sun, sand. Does it get much better?