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 […]
Dried rose shot on black Plexiglas.
This image was a lot of fun. Shot for self promotions. This dried rose was shot on black Plexiglas with a medium soft box tilted at a 45 degree angle behind to the subject. Camera specs: Canon 1-Ds Mark II with Canons EF 24 – 70mm F2.8 lens @ 70mm, 1/125 sec at f / […]
Bat or Potato?
OK, we all been there before. You know, you got the pantry or the fridge to get something and you notice that you had forgotten about it for days, weeks or even months. You’re not even sure what the heck it was in a previous lifetime. Well, most people would rush it to the trash, […]