I’ve entered into the Google Photography Prize, action category. You can check out the Google+ album here.

Made it down to the Dog Beach in Long Beach today, grabbed some photos. Dig it?

Full gallery here

This is what I look like in the middle of a football match:

Here’s a gallery of photos I took in Chicago recently. Why have I still not posted other photos I took in October(ish)? Something to do with laziness, business, and no doubt many other -nesses. One day…

I spent Labor day weekend in good company in Chicago, IL. Among other things, we spent some time at the Chicago Jazz Festival, which was classy, and went to a seedy blues joint, which was raunchy. Here’s the full gallery of photos from that trip; below are some photos of other-than-photographic merit.

And also this one, which does have photographic merit. Click on the panorama for higher resolution:

Follow the leader:

Some of the days were rainy, but Chicagoans are resilient, and they do like their jazz:

Final post from this Colorado trip, promise. I’ve wanted to take a startrail photo for quite a while, and this trip I finally dragged a tripod along on our hike and got on it. Unfortunately, when we were backpacking we only got one night of clear skies, and there wasn’t really a spectacular view. But hey, the next one I take will be in a nicer view, and I’ll let it run longer. Here’s the final photo (click on it for a larger version):

I put the camera on a tripod, set it for 30-second exposures at f/3.5 (ISO 800), set it on continuous shooting mode, and locked the remote control. I left the camera for 105 frames, or about 53 minutes. I then put all the photos together on my computer using this neat Startrails program by Achim Schaller.

Here’s the same photo in the original colors:

I just put up a few more photos from my trip to Colorado. Here’s the whole gallery.

Click on the panorama for a larger version:

I flew all the way back from Colorado to California in a plane that fits all of 19 passengers:

I happen to have spent Fourth of July in the charming town of Silverton, CO (population 531 or 50, depending on who you ask), camping by a very cold river, which I nevertheless swam in. It was a blast.

Here’s a photo gallery, and below are some selections:

The gunfighter club fired their guns happily and often, and these two really didn’t appreciate it.

I’ve been subscribing to Digital Photography Magazine for the last few months, and every time an issue gets here I feel a new wave of inspiration and enthusiasm for photography. This is a good thing. Today I walked around my house and took a few photos, mainly of the flowers around.

Here’s a small gallery. I hope you like the shots.

This Saturday, May 7th, the 39th Annual UC Riverside Shotokan Karate Championships took place at the University of California, Riverside. I was on deck to take photos. It was a fun tournament.

I had some issues taking the photos; there wasn’t quite as much light as I’d hoped, so I had to crank up the ISO all the way to 1600, and you can definitely tell by how noisy some of the photos are. But I did only what I had to do. Hope you like them.

By the way, the UCR Karate website is here.

Photo gallery here

I don’t know about you, but I had a pretty spiffy spring break. Huzzah! Here are a few photos from that trip, from Bryce Canyon National Park, Durango, CO, and some places along the way.

Gallery

Here are a few panoramas I took during the trip; click on them for higher resolution: