What It's All About

What is it about New Year's Eve that inspires this incredible sense of optimism? Teetering on the verge of midnight, peering over the edige of this symbolic line in the sand - tomorrow, tomorrow - it's a whole new world.


Standing on the steps of the post office right before midnight and the rain started coming down. I wanted to try and capture the idea of 'divided' that comes to me at New Years when everything is before/after party/suffer now/then resolve resolve resolve. From Douglas Adams' book, I like the idea that 'the mind and the body are undergoing a trial separation.' She is of two minds, and neither of them are connecting with her body.

Last Images of 2004

Dan and I raced down to Pleasure Point to catch the very last light. We're between storms, and the ocean was dark and ominous, the sky clouded but with incredible pinks and blues. Climbed down the sea wall to my new favorite spot to shoot. It started to rain again as soon as I got set up and my tripod was being lifted by the wind, threatening to fly into the ocean, so was a little distracted to say the least.

Am off to First Night Santa Cruz tonight to try and get some long exposure night shots/drunk partyers. We'll see how that goes... the photographer might be a little wobbly too. Until next year.


Wanted to try to capture some of the energy around the storm with jagged lines everywhere that match the craziness of the sky when pink becomes an ominous color because you know there's another storm right behind it.


My goal for this year is to get this one image of the surfers going into the water just RIGHT. Got the shot, better than last time, but still soft everywhere.

Start Somewhere Today

Every day I'm learning something new about photography, what I want to focus on, something about the world around me. But like a photograph, if I don't capture the moment then it is gone. So my goal here is to capture my progression as a photographer. Today is all about technology frustration instead of the art. I've gone from building the most complex forum to the simplest blog just to get my ideas out. Hopefully this is the end of my adventure and I can get back to the important elements now.

Am reading "The Practical Zone System," an excellent explantion of the Zone System in layman's terms. Have been stopping and looking at the scenes in front of me, trying to determine the perfect Zone III.