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A few of my selected photos are displayed here.  This is not an attempt to display a gallery of my 'photographic works' as I have taken an unknown number over my lifetime.

 La Jolla coastline  upsidedown sunset view in La Jolla

birds at beach in Oceanside  butterfly on flowers in southern California  

jellyfish embedded in beach sand  fish swimming in the kelp

University of Petroleum and Minerals at night  Electric Light parade in DisneyWorld

Balloon Lady at the last Del Mar Fair

camel being unloaded from truck in Hofuf 

display in a furniture store  New Brunswick, Canada

two cats that seem to like sitting in pots with plants  kitten playing with yarn through tear in bedding under bed

 

If there are not enough picture-worthy subjects, obtain a different film (i.e. infrared), camera lens or special viewing device attachment, and a whole new world of possibilities opens up.  For an example of what a macro (interpreted to mean 'close-up') lens can do, picture.com has a photograph I took of a chocolate candy bar.

 

 

Some of my general and esoteric comments about camera technology:


1)  the larger the negative size, the higher the resolution
2)  the faster the film speed, the grainer the final photo
3)  film does keep better in a freezer, but remember to allow the film time to reach the environmental temperature before use to avoid possible picture problems, i.e. stage the film in the warmer refrigerator the week before and allow for several hours of temperature adjustment before use
4)  with film, it is alright to under set by a notch the camera's manual ASA setting, and with slides, it is alright to over set by a notch the camera's ASA setting
5)  if taking your camera on a trip to extremely cold regions (where there are reports of human lung freezing incidents), be sure to check with your equipment manufacturer about what are the tolerable temperature operating ranges especially if there is anything automatic in the camera system (esoteric because this is 99% of the time usually not a concern)
6)  with pre-laser picture printing, matte finish photos require much more water to process than glossy prints
7)  really professional photographers process their own photographs due to the amount of artistic control required to render a scene with 'the proper shades of lighting'
8)  lens made to Japanese specifications provide cooler colors than lens made to warmer tone European specifications
9)  automatic focus mechanisms may have difficulty properly determining the depth of field through intervening glass
10)  know where the focus mechanism looks to determine the depth of field, i.e. if the camera uses the center of the image and what you want to take a picture of is not in the center, then the picture will probably turn out blurry
11)  three-dimensional cameras usually work by taking the same picture at a slightly different angle in multiple picture frames
12)  standard computer serial port speeds are not sufficient for quick downloads of images from digital cameras, and one may use half the battery life of the camera downloading the images without an AC to DC power plug
13)  CMOS photo-capture chip technology, where the picture is out-of-focus, creates a blurring effect closer to the way film behaves


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Last updated: December 01, 2002.