Food trucks, mobile kitchens or roach coaches, whatever you call them, they have become quite a phenomenon. Long lines often form at the most popular trucks late into the night outside of bars and clubs. One day some enterprising folks must have wondered, “what if we brought all these food vendors together in one place at…
DIY Orbis™ bracket project
If you’re not familiar with the orbis ringflash adapter, take a look at this video. Basically the orbis slips over the head of your flash. It takes the light coming up and into the ringflash redirects it around the ring and shoots it out the front toward your subject. The most common way to use…
How-to set up Facebook chat with any instant messenger
Ok, so this post isn’t photo related, but if you use Facebook for your photo business, this may be of interest to you. You can now chat with any of your Facebook friends using any instant messenger that supports the Jabber/XMPP protocol such as AOL-AIM, iChat and my personal choice Pidgin. Getting started is easy.…
Take a Photo Everyday
I got an iPhone this Christmas so I figured I would try a photo-a-day project for this year. You can view it on my facebook page. Most of the photos are taken with my phone. Some of the photo apps that I use are Best Camera, TiltShiftGen, CameraBag, and PS Mobile. The main purpose…
Mosaic’d Panoramas
On February 21, I attended a huge event sponsored by the Los Angeles Group admins on flickr. Typically these “flickr-walks” bring out about 10-20 folks. This one had to have had over 100. The official thread for the event is archived here. For this day I decided to try a technique where you tile list…
Meet the Leonards
February 20, 2009 My (wife’s) cousin came by with the newest Leonard, Emma. Also pictured, Emma’s grandma and great grandma. More photos after the jump.
Party at Typhoon Restaurant
February 18, 2009 Who would have guessed that one of the best restaurants (IMHO) in Los Angeles would be nestled in the terminal at Santa Monica airport? Typhoon serves an amazing panoply of Asian cuisine. If you’re ever in the neighborhood, I would definitely recommend giving it a try. My favorite dishes: the Filipino style…
What the hell is going on here?
The observant among you may have noticed the 6 month gap between this post and my last one. What’s going on is I’ve decided to clean up my blog and remove anything that wasn’t related to my photography. I am going back through all the photos I’ve taken this year (2009) and post them here…
The Scarlet Paradigm at the Whiskey a Go Go
Last night I got to see The Scarlet Paradigm play at the world famous Whiskey a Go Go. More photos from the show after the jump.
Road Trip to the Tuscon Bead Show
I believe the Tuscon Bead show is one of the largest (if not the largest) bead, gem and jewelry show in the U.S. there are vendors from all over the world who exhibit and sell their wares there. If you didn’t know, my wife owns a bead and jewelry business so we get to go…
