Will the real light saber please stand up This is actually a Jacobs Ladder I built for a mad scientist Halloween theme party we threw back in 2005. But when I was done I just had to shoot this way cool phenomenon. The electrodes are 2 feet tall and each arc takes about 1 second […]
Sparks are flying
Okay, when inspiration show its face, talk to it. So there I was grinding down some sharp ends of a cage I was building that was to hold a diffuser and it happened. As I was grinding down the spurs I look beyond the grinding wheel and noticed that the sparks were flying all over […]
Anchor and Ring
On my way back from dropping my mom off at the San Francisco airport I decided to take a detour to a place that I have not been before. My journey took me to Baker Beach just south of the Golden Gate Bridge. This is where I discovered a fantastic place to take photos. There […]
Snobbish Goat Amongst a Sea
This was a fascinating event that happened about year and a half ago. This company “Living Systems Land Management” was hired to clear out the grass and weeds from several strips of land near my home in Santa Rosa. What they did was bring in a small fence and surrounded a strip of land and […]
Dog and his human
With landscapes, distance can be a difficult thing to capture. However if you place elements in the foreground, middle ground and in the background you will give the views eyes the ability to travel deep into the scene. The first thing that the eye wants to do is locate the brightest spot in the scene, […]
Giants in their field.
On our way back from visiting my wife’s parents (who by the way are awesome) we passed these windmills. From a distance they look quite small. As we got closer I found them to be deceivingly large and I mean large. And, no I did not put the electric pole into the photo. This is […]