PETERSEN MUSEUM

I went to the Petersen Car Museum today and took a whooooole lot of pictures. :-) I'm only going to post a few because these are really for my other blog Down Around L.A.. I've got to say, it was pretty cool!

ON THE JAZZ CRUISE

For anyone who scoffs at the click 'n shoot cameras, I think this the pics below are a pretty good example of what they can do. These were taken on a jazz cruise with no flash and sometimes the boat was a rockin'. When I bought this camera, though I wanted a fully manual camera I knew I didn't have time to learn and/or refresh my memory on all of the ins and outs and that I would miss a lot of pics trying to play with the settings. The camera store owner and I went over all of the cameras for what I needed and I was pretty impressed with this Fujifilm camera. I still think it's one of the best decisions I made based on these pictures.



Larry Carlton


Marion Meadows

I took my disk to the kiosk at the photo shop on board and had some of my photos made into 8x10's. I took them to the autograph session to be signed and the artists REALLY got a kick out of the fact that these were photos taken of them just the day before. I was a hit! LOL!



Steve Oliver


Boney James

One of the things I wanted to do was records some of the artists performing and I'm really happy with the quality of what I recorded. Considering I had to reduce some of the quality to minimize the file size to upload to YouTube, this is pretty darn good.

TODAY'S PHOTO - 06/15/08

Well, I know this is a little.... interesting but for some reason I like this picture. My sister was barbequing yesterday and I just snapped a couple of pictures of the pit.

GOLD FLAME ROSES

I'm so frustrated. I can't capture the exact color of these roses and I haven't figured out how to adjust the color without messing up the picture. The camera keeps flushing out the true red that is around the edges. Sigh! Still, their beautiful nonetheless. I'll take any tips anyone has to offer. I have trouble capturing my red roses also.