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Month: December 2005

Photo Friday: Best of 2005

Photo Friday: Best of 2005

Actually, I still think the hummingbird photo I posted before is my personal best in 2005, but the two above are okay, too. And here’s the hummingbird again, for an encore: All photos were taken the day I walked around along the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. Update: I decided to post a detail crop of the hummingbird… Share this post:

Surf’s Up

Surf’s Up

The surf’s been up this week in California, so far up that H.E. and I have been to the beach a few times trying to get some good shots of surfers doing their thing, and so far up that surfers have been advised not to do their thing. No beachside rescues are made in these kinds of conditions, so no sane surfer goes out. But the surf is impressive. The waves break hard and high, creating so much mist that…

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Mr. Gad

Mr. Gad

I completely forgot to post this—an illustration of a character named Mr. Gad. It’s for the fourth issue of Tales of the Talisman, specifically for a story called “Now With New and Improved Evil Detector!” by Joseph D. Martin. Here’s a description of Mr. Gad: Mr. Gad was at least six feet five inches tall and razor thin, yet his olive green suit was too long for him, the sleeves coming well past his wrists and the cuffs bunched up…

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A Sunset’s Totally Not Worth Death

A Sunset’s Totally Not Worth Death

I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but I honestly couldn’t translate this sunset into even a paragraph’s worth. Maybe it’s because I live here and I see them often, that even with the variations in the sky, the mist, the waves, the atmosphere, … all sunsets essentially look the same. What can I say a thousand times, really? Beautiful? Beautiful, I tell you! This sunset is beautiful! I saw the King Kong movie (I deem that the…

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