Santana Row on Stevens Creek rd in San Jose, Ca

Went to Santa Row late yesterday afternoon..Lots of pretty flowers. The weather was perfect for photographs.( overcast sky ):
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IPhone Photo

Lots of opportunity for people watching:

Even a friendly Dog:

There are lots of stores or browsing:

Last but not least a photo taken with my IPhone 3gs:

Poppy's are in Bloom again

Passed a group of poppy's the other day... Finally went to photograph them yesterday... Used my Olympus epl1 with a nikon 50mm1.8 lens.. I got down on the ground to get the lower perspective.
I like to take my poppy photographs in the middle of the day when the poppy's are backlite by the sun.

The first poppy photograph is a painterly effect using a filter in photoshop called Topaz Simplify.

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 This is a strait poppy photograph with  a dark vignette to make the poppy standout from the soft background.

View from above.

Then I switched to my telephoto lens on my Olympus EPL1 for the following two photographs. I again used Topaz Simplify to give them a painterly effect.

The cattle are back in my backyard

Today I looked out the window and noticed that the cattle are back on the hills surrounding our campground.. I grabbed my IPhone and took a walk to take a few photographs.. Here are 3 photographs:

The last photograph is my truck and trailer in paradise..