This is Mae

She is a lot of fun.

Most of these were taken in the shower where she really had fun. Ok, so did I.

The instructions on how to see the rest are below.

One set she saw, and picked several she liked.

The second set is hotter and I just got to these.

There is also a contact sheet PDF.

Relishguy
SF

March 3rd, 2012

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CA State parks - use'em *and* lose'em

I was shown the calendar of this organization by a work colleague who was a donor. The pictures were pretty good, so I wrote a list of the sampled parks:

mono lake tufa
garrapata
palomar mountain
william ide adobe
moss landing
olompali
jack london
china camp
bale grist mill
morro strand
sugarloaf ridge
poortola redwoods

The only one I have ever shot is the tufa (which is amazing!)....

Then you go to calparks.org and they emphasize a list of 70 parks which are closing..

And every park on the list above was included in the list of closing parks...

So these places needs to get on the itinerary

NPy (Night Photography) workshops

I just started looking into this. Here's what I have found so far..

REI class in Fremont (does not look very detailed)

Tim Baskerville & The Nocturnes classes (this looks comprehensive)

Lance Keimig class in Big Bend Texas next week (I think that this is advanced)

Baskerville and Keimig class at Rayko Photo (this past summer)

Regards..

Big Sur workshops in Fall and Winter

There are apparently several of these as well.

I was originally interested in the workshop offered by Sea-to-Summit based on my excellent experience in their Costal Photography workshop.

Then I noticed that Nikonians also offers a workshop to this location early next year. This is lead by the same guy who does the Eastern Sierra workshop.

Then a colleague told me about a famous guy who gives workshops to this location.

Finally the last offering also has a guidebook. I also found several web sites desribing the area. Maybe I could navigate it myself. I am not sure.

One thing is for sure: there are lots of good landscape photography sites within a few hours drive of my current location.

Finally, my guess is that all of these are good workshops.

Regards..

Ref:

Sea-to-Summit

Nikonians

Don Smith

Guide Book

everyone is heading to the Eastern Sierra around the same timeframe (late Oct)

I had previously looked at and I have been interested in the Eastern Sierra photography workshop offerred by Nikonians.org (see references below).

The pictures that I saw taken from that area are amazing. It is possible that I will still attend this workshop.

While looking around, I have come across another workshop held during this same period. It is somewhat cheaper and this guy Ken Rockwell is one of the workshop leaders. I am not sure about this guy but I know many photogs have strong opinions of him.

Sinally there is this yearly series from the Sacramento Bee newspaper that chronicles the changing leaves in the area

I cannot figure out if I could navigate this place on my own yet.

Regards..

Ref:

Nikonians trip
Wyman/Rockwell trip
Sacremento Bee Leaves Info