First Look: Kentmere 100

Along with a couple other items, I recently received a few rolls of 35mm Kentmere 100 (36) from an online retailer. Yesterday I loaded a roll into the Nikon N90s and carried the… Continue reading →

Tuxie’s

Tuxie’s Drive-In at 6030 Magnolia Avenue in Riverside, California is something of a city institution. I don’t know the history of the Drive-In, since I can’t find much information on it, but it… Continue reading →

Stray Photographs

 The photographs shown here are “strays” that never were used on the blog. They were all made within the last six months. Update: I noticed after publishing this that the daffodil shown below… Continue reading →

Early Light

This photo was captured on February 18, 2012 at 6:21 am. The light is nearly always good around sunrise, even if I don’t encounter the dramatic cloudscapes I favor. The exception (from my… Continue reading →

A Walk In The Park

Fairmount Park is located in the Santa Ana Lowlands, part of the riverbed area of the Santa Ana River. It contains two natural lakes, Evans and Fairmount, and currently encompasses 200 acres. The… Continue reading →

Shapes and Color

This photo was captured in Fairmount Park in Riverside, California. The park is quite a popular place, but is so extensive that it rarely seems crowded. This railing is part of the children’s playground equipment,… Continue reading →

Becoming A Westerner

My first crossing over the Mississippi River into the American West at twenty years old was a nearly hallucinogenic experience. I wasn’t under the influence of peyote, mescaline, LSD, or any other psychotropic… Continue reading →

Rubidoux Views

These photos are views of Mount Rubidoux in Riverside, California. At a peak elevation slightly over 1,300 feet, Rubidoux is really an isolated hill, so the “mount” name is a misnomer, but on… Continue reading →

56mm

Still playing with the Fotodiox Nikon-M4/3 adapter, I put the 28mm f/2.8 Nikkor on the Lumix G1 and headed downtown. On the Lumix G1, the wide 28mm becomes a 56mm due to the… Continue reading →

Sometimes You Get….Nothing

When I woke at 4:00 am there was a dead clear view of the thumbnail moon above the city from my patio. Wheeling the bike out of the garage at 5:20, I surveyed… Continue reading →

The Lone Egret

I keep spotting lone egrets. I see them in ponds near Sycamore Canyon. I see them along the Pacific coast, and in Mono Lake on the shoulder of the Sierra Nevadas. I see… Continue reading →

Random Frames

Sorting through photos from the last year recently, I found a few frames that slipped between the cracks. These are all photos that I like for one reason or another. The first frame… Continue reading →

A Red Rectangle

The red rectangle shown here is above the double-door entrance of the California Tower, a building in downtown Riverside.